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Nur-eldeen Masalha is a Palestinian-British academic and historian, born in 1957 in Galilee. He studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and then at the University of London. He is a former professor of politics and religion, and was the director of the Center for Religion and History and a research project. Holy Land, and served as Director of the MA Program on Religion, Politics and Conflict Resolution (2005-2015) at St Mary's University, was a Research Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of London, and worked as an editor for the Journal of Studies of the Holy Land and Palestine published by Edinburgh University Press.
He is currently a member of the Center for Palestine Studies, the Middle East Institute in London, the School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of London, and the Center for the Philosophy of History at Saint Mary's University.
He is the author of several books on Palestine and Israel, including Theologies of Liberation in Palestine-Israel: Indigenous, Contextual, and Postcolonial Perspectives (2014), Catastrophe in Memory (2005), and A Land Without a People (1997). ), and the book “Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of Transfer in Zionist Political Thought 1882-1948,” published in 1992, and the book “More Land and Less Arabs,” in which it deals with how the concept of “transfer” and containing the “Arab demographic problem” have guided the thinking of Israeli officials since 1948, And how was the policy of "more land and fewer Arabs" considered a serious solution to Israel's worsening demographic problems since 1967?
education
He studied undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and obtained a BA in International Relations and Politics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1979, and a Master’s degree in Middle Eastern politics in 1982 from the same university, and in 1988 he obtained a PhD in Politics from the Faculty of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
career
Noureddine worked in 1985 as a part-time lecturer in Middle Eastern politics at the University of London, and worked as a “Constantine Zureik Research Fellow” at the Institute for Palestine Studies in Washington, D.C. (1988-93), and in 1994 he worked as an assistant professor of modern Middle Eastern history at the Palestinian Birzeit University, He was a part-time lecturer at the American International University in London from 1997 to 2000, when he moved to the University of Surrey and was Visiting Lecturer at University College St Mary's, Research Fellow at University College St Mary's (2001-2002), and Senior Lecturer at University College St Mary's (2001-2002). 2002-2006), and a “Reader in Religion and Politics” at the College of Theology, Philosophy and History (2006-2009), and Professor of Religion and Politics at the College of Arts and Humanities at Saint Mary’s University (2009-2015).
He served as “Director of the Holy Land Research Project” at Saint Mary’s University (2001-2015), “Director of the Master’s Program in Religion, Politics and Conflict Resolution” at Saint Mary’s University (2005-2015), and Director of the Center for Religion and History in the College of Arts and Humanities in Saint Mary's University (2007-2015).
Journal of the Holy Land and Palestinian Studies
Noureddine was one of the founders and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Holy Land and Palestinian Studies, a fully peer-reviewed journal published by Edinburgh University Press, with a Spanish-language edition published by the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina.
He founded the magazine jointly with Michael Pryor in 2002, and members of the editorial board and the international advisory board were the late Edward Said, Hisham Sharabi, and Samih Ferson, and the current members are Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe, Yasser Suleiman, Stephanie Cronin, Tim Niblock, Dan Rabinowitz, Naseer Aruri , Assaad Ghanem, Naim Ateeq, Donald Wagner, Ismail Abu-Saad, Oren Yiftachel, William Dalrymple, Salim Tamari, Rosemary Radford Reuther, and Thomas L. Thompson.
Criticism of Benny Morris
Noureddine and Norman Finkelstein criticized Benny Morris's first publication on the displacement of the Palestinians in 1948, "The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem (1988)". closed sensitivity to scholars, that Morris did not deal with the evidence in the documents critically, that he underestimated the number of displacements, that his conclusions were skewed, and that he tended to give them a less damning character in the case of the harshness of the conclusions in relation to the Israelites.
In Morris' response to Nur al-Din and Norman Finkelstein, he said that he had "saw enough military and civilian material to form an accurate picture of what happened," and that Finkelstein and Musalha were aligned with the Palestinians with regard to the distinction between military assault and displacement.
His writings
«(in English: Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History) - Palestine: Four Thousand Years of History”, Zaid Publishing House, London, 2020.
“Theologies of Liberation in Palestine-Israel: Indigenous, Contextual, and Postcolonial Perspectives” Pickwick Press, 2014.
The Zionist Bible: Biblical Precedent, Colonialism and the Erasure of Memory
«(in English: The Palestine Nakba: Decolonizing History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory)
“(Spanish: La Biblia leída con los ojos de los Cananeos) - Reading the Bible through the eyes of the Canaanites,” written by Saad Shadid and Noureddine Masalha, Buenos Aires: Canaan Editorial, 2011, page number: 241 pages.
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