Illiberal War: On Trauma, Intent, and Annihilation

Chair: Leila Seurat, Centre arabe de recherches et d’études politiques de Paris

Nadia Abu El-Haj

An anthropologist and Middle East Studies scholar, Nadia Abu El-Haj is Anne Olin Whitney Professor at Barnard College and Columbia University, and Co-Director of the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia. Her publications include Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society (2001); The Genealogical Science: The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology (2012); and Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America (Verso, 2022). Her current project is a set of essays that grapple with the last two years of genocide and total war in Gaza.