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Basma Fahoum
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Middle East/Near East Studies
19th-21st Centuries
Colonialism
Political Economy
Ottoman Studies
Development
Palestinian Studies
Environment
Modernization
Israel Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Palestine
Israel
Specialties
Mandatory Palestine
Economic History
Agriculture
Languages
Arabic (native)
Hebrew (native)
English (fluent)
Education
PhD | 2023 | History | Stanford University
MA | 2019 | History | Stanford University
MA | 2015 | Culture Research | Tel Aviv University
Abstracts
Remembering Subterfuge among Arab Palestinian Tobacco Cultivators under the British Rule 1920-1948 Palestinian Peasants and Tobacco: Natural Cultivators, or Hindrance to Industry? More Than Depeasantization: The Body and Labor of Tobacco-Growing Peasant Family Households in Palestine/Israel (1920s-1980s)