Jerusalem Quarterly Issue 81
The Institute for Palestine Studies is the oldest institute in the world researching and publicizing on Palestinian affairs and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Established in 1963 in Beirut as an independent, non-profit Arab institute, it is regarded as the major source of accurate information on Palestinian affairs throughout the Arab world. It provides comprehensive material of current regional affairs with an emphasis on peaceful conflict resolution.
The Jerusalem Quarterly is the only journal that focuses exclusively on the city of Jerusalem; its history, political status, and future. It addresses debates about the city and its predicament as well as future scenarios for solving the problems of Jerusalem. Sponsored by the hbs, this issue of Jerusalem Quarterly addresses the topics of control, surveillance, and mapping of Palestine from the early modern period of colonial penetration. This is the period that saw the American naval expedition to the Dead Sea in the 1830s, the Palestine Exploration Fund cartographic survey in the mid-nineteenth century (Conder and Wilson), and Pere Antonin Jaussan’s social surveys in Nablus in 1927.
The subjects dealt with in this issue were enhanced by technological revolutions in military and civilian hardware: photography, survey mapping, aerial photography, stereoscoping imagery, and later digitization, satellite imagery, and surveillance technology.
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Table of contents
PALESTINE FROM ABOVE SURVEILLANCE, CARTOGRAPHY, CONTROL (Part 1)
EDITORIAL ..........................................................................................................................................................3
Nocturnal Journeys and Conquest Jerusalem from Above
INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................................................8
Accounts of Palestine from Above
Yazid Anani, Guest Editor
Combined Action................................................................................................................................................20
Aerial Imagery and the Urban Landscape in Interwar Palestine, 1918–40
Nadi Abusaada
Ground Truth ......................................................................................................................................37
Reading Aerial images of the Naqab from the Ground Up
Eyal Weizman
* The Mughrabi Quarter Digital Archive and the Virtual Illés Relief Initiative .............................52
Maryvelma Smith O’Neil
Geographical Reconnaissance by Aeroplane Photography, with Special Reference to
the Work Done on the Palestine Front. ...................................................................................................77
H. Hamshaw Thomas
Caught between the Lines .................................................................................................................94
Cartographic Narratives of the Palestinian village of Dayr Ayyub from the First World War to the Present
Iyad Issa
Granular Realism..............................................................................................................................119
Dominant and Counter-Dominant Practices of Spatial Photography in the Naqab
Ariel Caine
Directory of the Palestinian Photo Holdings of the Bavarian War Archive ...............................128
Andreas Evaristus Mader S.D.S., translated from German by Carol Khoury
DAKKAK AWARD WINNING ESSAY
Politics of Portraiture: The Studio of the Krikorians ....................................................................140
Hashem Abushama
LETTER FROM LYDDA ................................................................................................................153
Farewell to Najiyya al-Ash‘al (Um Hafiz)
Khaled Farraj, translated from Arabic by Muhammad Ali Khalidi
BOOK REVIEW ...............................................................................................................................155
Speaking in a Different Key: The Life and Art of Sophie Halaby
Review by Nisa Ari
FACTS & FIGURES.........................................................................................................................164
Oppression of Issawiya Neighborhood Correspondence between CAF & HUJI
Committee on Academic Freedom (CAF)
From Gaza to al-Majdal: Ten Art Interventions ............................................................................169
* Peer reviewed article.