SPECIALIZATIONS  - Modern Middle East History   - European Colonialism and Expansion in the Middle East   - Islamic Religious Tradition and Ritual

EDUCATION Ph.D. - University of Toronto, 2006 M.A. - Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, 1993 B.A. - University of Toronto, 1991

Summer "A: 08 OFFICE HOURS Mon:  12:30 to 1:00pm Wed:  1:00 to 1:30pm and by appointment   Email Prof. Halabi

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PUBLICATIONS (Articles)

"Islamic Ritual and Palestinian Nationalism: al-Hajj Amin and the Prophet Moses Festival in Jerusalem , 1921 to 1936," in Jerusalem Before 1948 , Ed. Lena Jayyusi. (Forthcoming)

 "The Nabi Musa Festival under British-Ruled Palestine ," International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World: ISIM Newsletter , Vol. 10 July 2002 , p. 27.

 "Tradition and the Tombs of the Prophet Moses: The Medieval Islamic Period," Saints and the Sacred , Eds. J. Goering et. al., Legas: Toronto , 2001. pp. 25-34.

 

Reference Entries

"Arabs," Encyclopedia of Modern Asia , Levinson, et al., Eds., New York : Charles Scribner's Sons (2002)

"Muslims, Sunni," Encyclopedia of Modern Asia (2002)

"Pilgrimages," Encylopedia of Colonialism , Ed. Mel Page. East River Books (2003)

 

Works in Progress

"Discourses on modernity at the Prophet Moses festival in Jerusalem during the late Ottoman period," for submission to Journal of Palestine Studies ¸ Editor Linda Butler.