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== Early life and education ==
== Early life and education ==
Atshan is Palestinian-American, was born in the United States, and identifies as Quaker.<ref name=":1" /> He grew up in the West Bank, where he attended the [[Ramallah Friends School]] in the [[West Bank]], as did several generations of his family. He was in high school during the [[Second Intifada]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Martin |first=Rachel |date=December 3, 2023 |title=This Palestinian American professor leans on his Quaker faith during conflict |work=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/2023/12/03/1216138611/this-palestinian-american-professor-leans-on-his-quaker-faith-during-conflict |access-date=December 3, 2023}}</ref> In 2002, he moved to the United States to attend Swarthmore College for his undergraduate degree,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Atshan |first=Maya Cohen and Sa’ed |date=2020-07-31 |title=A Vision of Jewish and Palestinian Connection |url=https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/319648/a-vision-of-jewish-and-palestinian-connection/ |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=Jewish Journal |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite web |last=Modi |first=Chintan Girish |date=2021-05-17 |title=The Sa’ed Atshan interview {{!}} 'For more and more queer Palestinians, desire, practice and identity are aligning with each other' |url=https://www.firstpost.com/art-and-culture/the-saed-atshan-interview-for-more-and-more-queer-palestinians-desire-practice-and-identity-are-aligning-with-each-other-9611351.html |access-date=2024-01-02 |website=Firstpost |language=en}}</ref> graduating in 2006.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |date=2022-12-21 |title=Dr. Sa’ed Atshan to return to Swarthmore College and the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies |url=https://pcs.domains.swarthmore.edu/pcs/atshan-return/ |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at Swarthmore College |language=en-US}}</ref> He later earned a doctorate degree in public policy at [[Harvard University|Harvard]]'s [[Harvard Kennedy School|Kennedy School of Government]],<ref name=":6" /> and a postdoctoral degree at [[Brown University]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2017-08-09 |title=‘It is time to break the silence’: Palestinian professor speaks out after having speech cancelled under pressure |url=https://mondoweiss.net/2017/08/palestinian-professor-cancelled/ |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=Mondoweiss |language=en-US}}</ref>
Atshan is Palestinian-American, was born in the United States, and identifies as Quaker.<ref name=":1" /> He grew up in the West Bank, where he attended the [[Ramallah Friends School]] in the [[West Bank]], as did several generations of his family. He was in high school during the [[Second Intifada]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Martin |first=Rachel |date=December 3, 2023 |title=This Palestinian American professor leans on his Quaker faith during conflict |work=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/2023/12/03/1216138611/this-palestinian-american-professor-leans-on-his-quaker-faith-during-conflict |access-date=December 3, 2023}}</ref> In 2002, he moved to the United States to attend Swarthmore College for his undergraduate degree,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Atshan |first=Maya Cohen and Sa’ed |date=2020-07-31 |title=A Vision of Jewish and Palestinian Connection |url=https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/319648/a-vision-of-jewish-and-palestinian-connection/ |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=Jewish Journal |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite web |last=Modi |first=Chintan Girish |date=2021-05-17 |title=The Sa’ed Atshan interview {{!}} 'For more and more queer Palestinians, desire, practice and identity are aligning with each other' |url=https://www.firstpost.com/art-and-culture/the-saed-atshan-interview-for-more-and-more-queer-palestinians-desire-practice-and-identity-are-aligning-with-each-other-9611351.html |access-date=2024-01-02 |website=Firstpost |language=en}}</ref> graduating in 2006.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |date=2022-12-21 |title=Dr. Sa’ed Atshan to return to Swarthmore College and the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies |url=https://pcs.domains.swarthmore.edu/pcs/atshan-return/ |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at Swarthmore College |language=en-US}}</ref> He later earned a doctorate degree in public policy at [[Harvard University|Harvard]]'s [[Harvard Kennedy School|Kennedy School of Government]],<ref name=":6" /> and was a postdoctoral researcher at [[Brown University]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2017-08-09 |title=‘It is time to break the silence’: Palestinian professor speaks out after having speech cancelled under pressure |url=https://mondoweiss.net/2017/08/palestinian-professor-cancelled/ |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=Mondoweiss |language=en-US}}</ref>


== Activism ==
== Activism ==

Revision as of 17:51, 12 January 2024

Sa'ed Atshan (born 1984 or 1985) is a Palestinian anthropologist and professor at Emory University and Swarthmore College.[1]

Early life and education

Atshan is Palestinian-American, was born in the United States, and identifies as Quaker.[2] He grew up in the West Bank, where he attended the Ramallah Friends School in the West Bank, as did several generations of his family. He was in high school during the Second Intifada.[2] In 2002, he moved to the United States to attend Swarthmore College for his undergraduate degree,[3][4] graduating in 2006.[5] He later earned a doctorate degree in public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government,[4] and was a postdoctoral researcher at Brown University.[6]

Activism

In the late 2000s, Atshan began volunteering with the Ramallah Friends School as a college counselor and mentor for students in their senior year.[2] He was a mentor to Kinnan Abdalhamid and Hisham Awartani.

In 2017, a planned speaking arrangement by Atshan at a Friends' Central School, a Quaker school in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, was cancelled after parents complained that Atshan supported the BDS movement.[7] Two of the school's teachers, who invited Atshan on behalf of the school's Peace and Equality in Palestine club, were suspended.[7] Although the school later re-exetended the speaking invitation, Atshan declined, saying he would not speak at the school until they reinstated the suspended teachers.[6]

In 2018, Atshan's speaking engagement at the Jewish Museum Berlin was cancelled after comments from 2014 surfaced in which he called Israel an apartheid state.[8] Atshan's planned talk was titled "On Being Queer and Palestinian in East-Jerusalem", as part of the museum's exhibit on Jerusalem.[8]

Career

Atshan was hired at Emory University in 2021, and was tenured in January 2022, becoming the first tenured Palestinian professor at the university.[9] He has also worked at Swarthmore since 2015,[5] and currently works as an associate professor in the peace and conflict studies and anthropology departments.[1]

While on sabbatical for the 2020-2021 academic year, Atshan was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Visiting Scholar in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.[4]

Recognition

In 2020, Atshan was named one of Arab America Foundation's 40 Under 40.[10]

Personal life

Atshan is a Quaker and a pacifist;[2] he is also gay.[6]

Works

  • Atshan, Sa'ed (2020). Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-1-5036-1240-2.[11][12][13][14][15][16]
  • Atshan, Sa'ed; Galor, Katharina (2020). The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-1-4780-0785-2.[17][18][19][20]
    • Atshan, Sa’ed; Galor, Katharina (2021). Israelis, Palästinenser und Deutsche in Berlin (in German). De Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-072993-1.[21]
  • Paradoxes of Humanitarianism: The Social Life of Aid in the Palestinian Territories (upcoming)

References

  1. ^ a b Mannheim, Linda (2023-11-16). "The Moral Triangle: Palestine, Israel, and Germany". ISSN 0027-8378. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
  2. ^ a b c d Martin, Rachel (December 3, 2023). "This Palestinian American professor leans on his Quaker faith during conflict". NPR. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
  3. ^ Atshan, Maya Cohen and Sa’ed (2020-07-31). "A Vision of Jewish and Palestinian Connection". Jewish Journal. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
  4. ^ a b c Modi, Chintan Girish (2021-05-17). "The Sa'ed Atshan interview | 'For more and more queer Palestinians, desire, practice and identity are aligning with each other'". Firstpost. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
  5. ^ a b "Dr. Sa'ed Atshan to return to Swarthmore College and the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies". Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at Swarthmore College. 2022-12-21. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
  6. ^ a b c "'It is time to break the silence': Palestinian professor speaks out after having speech cancelled under pressure". Mondoweiss. 2017-08-09. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
  7. ^ a b "Quaker school suspends teachers over pro-BDS speaker invite". The Times of Israel. February 14, 2017. Retrieved December 3, 2023.
  8. ^ a b Weinthal, Benjamin (2018-07-23). "Envoy gets anti-Israel talk at Berlin Jewish museum canceled". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
  9. ^ Kamin, Grace (2022-03-30). "Sa'ed Atshan, first Palestinian professor tenured at Emory, brings radical humanization to the classroom". The Emory Wheel. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
  10. ^ America, Arab (2020-10-22). "Arab America Foundation Announces 40 Under 40 Awardees". Arab America. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
  11. ^ Anderson, Lisa (3 February 2022). "Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique". Foreign Affairs (January/February 2022). ISSN 0015-7120.
  12. ^ Al-Kurdi, Ahmad (2022). "Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique: by Sa'ed Atshan, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2020, 296 pp, $90 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1503609945". Journal of Israeli History: 1–3. doi:10.1080/13531042.2021.2033451. S2CID 246593150.
  13. ^ Salman, Sara (2021). "Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique". Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews. 50 (5): 392–394. doi:10.1177/00943061211036051. S2CID 237393393.
  14. ^ Savcı, Evren (2021). "Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique". Journal of Middle East Women's Studies. 17 (1): 117–120. doi:10.1215/15525864-8790266. S2CID 233852212.
  15. ^ Shehadeh, Lana (1 October 2020). "Book review". Arab Studies Quarterly. 42 (4). doi:10.13169/arabstudquar.42.4.0315. S2CID 245941609.
  16. ^ Hoad, Neville (2022). "Rehashed Liberalism, the Accusation of Radical Purity, and the Alibi of the "Personal"". GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 28 (2): 315–319. doi:10.1215/10642684-9608273.
  17. ^ Mende, Tugrul (30 April 2020). "The moral triangle: Germans, Israelis and Palestinians in Berlin An Interview with Sa′ed Atshan and Katharina Galor about the difficult, complex relationship of these three communities". openDemocracy. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
  18. ^ Lupo, Joshua (9 February 2022). "Introduction to Symposium on The Moral Triangle". Contending Modernities. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
  19. ^ Lindholm, Helena (2022). "The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians . Sa'ed Atshan and Katharina Galor. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020, 256 pp. $25.95, paper. ISBN 978-1-4780-0837-8". Journal of Anthropological Research. 78 (1): 144–145. doi:10.1086/717825. S2CID 247267197.
  20. ^ Younes, Anna-E. (2022). "The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians: by Sa'ed Atshan and Katharina Galor. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 256 pages. $99.95 cloth, $25.95 paper". Journal of Palestine Studies: 1–3. doi:10.1080/0377919X.2022.2048607. S2CID 248287342.
  21. ^ Rochde, Achim (2020). The Moral Triangle. H-Soz-Kult. ISBN 9781478008378. Retrieved 12 May 2022.
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