Magid Shihade is an interdisciplinary scholar. His research focuses on decolonization, settler colonial and Indigenous studies, modernity, violence, identity, and the anthropology and politics of knowledge, social and cultural history of Palestine, and the work of Ibn Khaldun. He has published several articles, and book chapters on these topics. His book, “Not Just a Soccer Game: Colonialism and Conflict among Palestinians in Israel,” was published in the 2011 by Syracuse University Press. Currently he is working on several projects, among them his further work on ’48 Palestinians, a work with a tentative title: “Not Just a Picnic: Settler-Colonialism, Mobility, and Identity among ’48 Palestinians.”
Education
Ph.D. Interdisciplinary in Near//Middle Eastern Studies, University of Washington, 2006.
M.A. International/Middle East Studies, University of Washington, 2001.
B.A. Political Science and German with Certificate in West European Studies, University Of Pittsburgh, 1998, graduated cum laude.
Academic Positions
2022-2023, Associate Professor and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Dar Al-Kalima University, Bethlehem, Palestine.
2022-2023 Dean of Faculty of Sport, Sustainable Tourism, and Cultural Heritage at Dar Al Kalima University, Bethlehem, Palestine.
2023, Dean of Faculty of Arts at Dar Al Kalima University, Bethlehem, Palestine. 2019-2022, Academic Coach/Advisor, Independent Scholar, Galilee, Palestine.
2010-2019, Assistant Professor, Abu-Lughod Institute of International Studies, Birzeit University, Birzeit, Palestine.
2014-2016, Lecturer, Middle East/South Asia Program, University of California at Davis. 2013-2014, Visiting Fellow at the Middle East/South Asia Program at the University of
California at Davis.
2013-2014, Postdoctoral Transregional Research Fellow at the SSRC—Social Science Research Council.
2009-2010, Assistant Professor, School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan.
2009, Endowed Visiting Professorship in Contemporary Global Issues, University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh.
2008, Visiting Professor, Anthropology Program, California Institute for Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA.
2008, Lecturer, Asian American Studies Department, University of California, Davis.
2008, Lecturer, Middle East/South Asia Studies, University of California, Davis. 2008, Lecturer, History Department, University of California, Davis.
2007, Lecturer, Ethnic Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley.
2005-2007, Instructor, Global Studies Department, Berkeley City College, Berkeley, CA.
Awards, Honors, and Grants
2013-2014, Social Science Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship for Transregional Research: Inter-Asian Contexts and Connections.
2014, Social Science Research Council grant for workshops at the University of California at Davis.
2012-2013, PARC (Palestinian American Research Center) Fellowship.
2012, Grant from the Forced Migration and Refugee Unit at Birzeit University to study the impact of settler colonialism in Palestine on social and political identity and conflict among Palestinians in Israel and the West Bank.
2012, Selected for Fulbright award, Visiting Scholar in International Studies at St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX.
2011, Grant from APY Foundation -- Fundación para la Cooperación Solidaridad en Acción – to promote training and awareness about human rights, democracy, and conflict resolution; to design and teach courses; invite speakers; and organize conferences on the subject.
2010, DRC Research Award, School of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Law, LUMS. 2003-2004, Foreign Language Fellowship (FLASS), University of Washington.
2003, Nominated by the PhD program in Near East/Middle East Studies for the Elizabeth Kerr MacFarlane Scholarship.
1999-2000, University of Washington Middle East Center’s Schwartz Fellowship. 1998, cum laude, University of Pittsburgh.
1998, Honors Convocation, University of Pittsburgh. 1998, Golden Key National Honor Society.
1997, University of Pittsburgh Dean’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship.
1996, University of Pittsburgh Honors College Research Grant to conduct a survey on the peace process in the West Bank.
1995-1998, University of Pittsburgh Dean’s Honors List.
Publications
Book
2011. Not Just a Soccer Game: Colonialism and Conflict among Palestinians in Israel.
Syracuse University Press, Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution.
Selected Journal Articles
2020. “Asabiyya – Solidarity in the age of barbarism: An Afro-Arab-Asian alternative.”Current Sociology, 68. 2, pp.: 263-278.
2017. “Education and decolonization: On not reading Ibn Khaldun in Palestine.”
Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 6.1, pp.79-93
2016. “Rediscovering Religion and Secularism: A Critique of a Critique.” Social Transformations 4.1, pp. 3-25.
2015. “Global Israel: Settler, Native, Mobility, and Rupture.” Borderlands 14.1, http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol14no1_2015/shihade_israel.pdf
Spring 2015. “The Place of Israel in Asia: Settler Colonialism and Rupture,” Journal of Settler Colonial Studies, http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rset20
Spring 2015. “Not just a Picnic: Settler Colonialism and Mobility among Palestinians in Israel.”
Biography, 37.2, pp. 77-99.
Winter 2012. “On the Difficulty in Predicting and Understanding the Arab Spring: Orientalism, Euro- Centrism, and Modernity.” International Journal of Peace Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 57-70.
Fall 2012. “Hip Hop from ’48 Palestine: Youth, Music, and the Present/Absent” (co-authored with Sunaina Maira), Social Text 112, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 1-26.
May 2012. Guest editor, “The Season of Revolution: The Arab Spring and European Mobilization.” Special issue of Interface, Vol. 4, Issue 1. http://www.interfacejournal.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Issue-4-1-Full-PDF.pdf.
Spring 2012. “Settler Colonialism and Conflict: The Israeli State and Its Palestinian Subjects.”
Journal of Settler Colonial Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 108-123.
http://ojs.lib.swin.edu.au/index.php/settlercolonialstudies/article/view/306
Fall 2011. "Teaching 9/11: Lessons from Classrooms in the United States and Pakistan."
Radical History Review, Vol. 2011, No.111, pp. 225-231.
Fall 2011. "The Meaning of 9/11: The Making and Unmaking of Global Structures." The Asian American Literary Review, Vol. 2, Issue 1.5, pp. 183-191.
Winter 2010. "Ethnic Conflict and State Intervention: Colonialism in Motion." Ethnoculture, Vol. 2, pp. 2-10.
Fall 2009. “Growing up Palestinian in Israel: Masculinity, Colonialism, Apartheid, and Migration.” Mediterranean Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 12 (double issue), pp. 263-274.
Summer 2006. “Meeting Asian/Arab American Studies.” (co-authored with Sunaina Maira),
Journal of Asian American Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 117-140.
Fall 2005. “Internal Violence: The State’s Role and Society’s Responses,” Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol. 27 No. 4, pp.31-43.
Book Chapters
2022. “Settler Colonialism in Palestine: Connections and Ruptures.” In Ahmad Sa’di and Nur Masalha, editors, Decolonizing the Study of Palestine. I.B. Tauris.
2022. “Asabiyya.” In Dilip M. Menon, editor, Changing Theory: Concepts from the Global South. Routedge.
2013. “Ibn Khaldoun on Nature and the Political: Writing from the Margins to Remain There.” In Jon D. Carlson and Russell Arben Fox, eds., The State of Nature in Comparative Political Thought: Western and Non-Western Perspectives. Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield.
2010. “Ethnic Conflicts in the Middle East: A Comparative Analysis of Communal Violence Within the Matrix of Colonial Legacy, Globalization, and Global Security.” In Julius O. Odekunle & Hittie V. Williams, eds., Color Struck: Essays on Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective, pp. 57-70, Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
2010. “Race and Slavery in Islam, Christianity, and Judaism: Texts, Contexts, and Current Implications.” In Julius O. Odekunle & Hittie V. Williams, eds., Color Struck: Essays on Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective, pp. 403-422, Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
2006. “The Palestinian Israeli” in Adam Jones, ed., Third World Men: An Anthology, pp.
349-354, London and New York: Zed Books.
Book Reviews
2016. Reflection on Elia Zureik’s Israel’s Colonial Project in Palestine: The Im/Possible Future. Arab Studies Quarterly Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 709-713.
Summer 2012. The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel, by Ilan Pappe (Yale University Press, 2011). Journal of Palestine Studies Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 83-84.
Winter 2012. Palestine Online: Transnationalism, the Internet and the Construction of Identity, by Miriyam Aouragh (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2010). Journal of Palestine Studies Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 128-129.
Spring 2010. Muslim Attitudes to Jews and Israel, edited by Moshe Ma'oz (Sussex: Sussex University Press, 2010). Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 123-125.
September 2008. On Suicide Bombing, by Talal Asad (New York, Columbia University Press, 2007). Journal of New Political Science, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 415-416.
Winter 2008. Struggle and Survival in the Middle East, edited by Edmund Burke & David Yaghoubian (University of California Press, 2006). Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, pp. 120-122.
Spring-Summer 2008. A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja, by Joost
R. Hiltermann (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007). Canadian Journal of History, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 190-191.
October 2007. Practicing History: New Directions in Historical Writing After the Linguistic Turn, edited by Gabrielle M. Spiegel (London: Routledge, 2005). Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, Vol. xxxii No. 2, p. 101.
Winter-Spring 2005. Dancing Arabs, by Sayed Kashua (New York, Grove Press, 2004). Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol. 27, Nos. 1& 2, pp.89-92.
2005. Punishment, Communication, and Community, by R.A. Duff. International Criminal Justice Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 89-90.
Articles and books in preparation
Global Israel: Settler Colonialism and Rupture, a current book project that explores the local, regional, and global implications of Israeli settler colonialism. Two academic publishers (I.B. Tauris book series in Palestine Studies, and The University of Minnesota Press) have already expressed interest in the manuscript proposal.
A Reader in Palestine Studies: An edited volume of Palestinian knowledge production since the early 20th century. New York University Press expressed interest in the proposed edited volume.
“Ibn Khaldun and Contemporary Knowledge: Making 14th Century Arabic Writing relevant to Humanities and Social Sciences.” The article is an attempt to summarize and analyze the sociological approach offered by Ibn Khaldoun in the study of conditions for sustainable states and societies. It is still under preparation.
Conference Presentations and Invited Talks
July 20, Presented a paper on Academic Precuriarity while Teaching on and in Palestine at the Golobal Studies Annual Meeting, in Athens, Greece.
May 16, Presented a paper on Settler Colonialism in Palestine and Critical Solidarity, at the Pampeu Fabra University, Barcelona.
March 13-27 2022, Presented on Music, Youth, and Politics in Palestine at a conference organized by Columbia University, NYC, and the Makerere Instiutute, Kampala, Uganda
8/23-27/2018. Presented and participated in a workshop on Ideas from Africa. Wits, Johannesburg, SA. My workshop was titled “Ibn Khaldun’s Asabiyyah: Rethinking the concept and what it can mean today.
11/14/2017. Presented a paper “Israel-Palestine as a global incarceral structure.” at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.
4/13/2016. Presented at and co-organized a workshop on Rethinking Israeli and Palestine Studies, LSE, London, UK. My paper “Rethinking Solidarity with Palestine.”
5/12/2014 Organized a workshop on “Rethinking Asia, Rethinking History” at the University of California at Davis, sponsored by the Middle East/South Asia Program and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC).
4/7/2014 “Israel in Asia/The Globe: The Settler, Native, Nomad, and Rupture.” Middle East/South Asia Program, University of California at Davis.
4/4/2014 “Israel in Asia/Africa: Settler Colonialism, Mobility, and Rupture.” National Association of Ethnic Studies Annual Meeting, Mills College, Oakland, CA.
11/23/2013 “Settler Colonialism in Israel: Mobility and Rupture.” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, D.C.
4/3/2014 “The Politics of Indigeneity from Uncle Sam to Uncle Herzl.” University of California at Davis, Launching Event of the Social Justice Initiative at UC Davis on Global Indigeneity.
6/6/2013, “Islamic-Arabic Thought: Preliminary Perspectives from Ibn Khaldoun on Current Debates: Secularism, Religion, Governance, Society, and the Economy.” Presented at Religion and Morality of the Markets Research Workshop, King’s College London.
5/17/2013, Co-organized a workshop with Ann Stoler at the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center in Ramallah, Palestine on Political Concepts: Interrogating Dominant Concepts, and Introducing New Ones from an Arab Palestinian Perspective.
5/5/2012, “Settler Colonialism and Conflict: The Israeli State and Its Palestinian Subjects.” Interdisciplinary and Comparative Approaches to Ethnic Conflicts: An International Symposium. Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey.
4/1/2012, “Interventions for Peace: Rhetoric and Reality in the Arab World.” International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Diego, California.
5/12/2011, "Orientalism, and the Arab Revolution." British Research Council, Jerusalem. 4/14/2011, "The Political Thought of Ibn Khaldoun." Third European Congress on World and
Global History (ENIUGH), London School of Economics.
4/22/2010, “1948 Palestinians’ Art and Politics: A Challenge to the Present-Absent.” Conference on Arab Popular Culture, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon.
4/3/2010, Panel Chair, “Understanding the War on Terror.” Fifth Annual Social Science Conference, LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan.
3/18/2010, Panel Chair, Islam and Governance, International Conference on Islam, Iqbal Institute, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
4/20/09, “U.S. Imperialism and the Academy: Two Sides of the Same Coin.” Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii.
4/18/09, “The Absence of Settler Colonialism in Palestine Studies in the U.S. Academy.” Asian American Association Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii.
4/3/09, “Mirror Images: The Question of Palestine in and Outside the Academy.” National conference on Challenges and Opportunities in Arabs and Islamic Studies in the U.S., Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA. Selected among the best conference’s papers for publication.
10/19/08, “American-Israeli Exceptionalism and the Arab.” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM.
3/28/2008, “Comparative Communal Violence: Colonialism, Globalization, and Modernity.” Annual International Studies Conference, San Francisco, CA.
4/27/ 2006, “Borders and Checkpoints: Arab American/Asian American Studies.” International Conference on Mapping Arab Diasporas, Center for Arab American Studies, University of Michigan, Dearborn.
10/15/ 2005, “Communal Violence in Israel: States and Enforced Identities” Korean Association of Middle Eastern Studies International Conference, Seoul, South Korea.
5/15/2003, “Ethnic Conflicts in Israel and in Palestine.” Annual Middle Eastern History Conference, University of Chicago.
10/11/2001, “The Middle East and the United States’ Past Relations and Prospects for the future.” Teach-in on post-September 11 issues, University of Washington, Seattle.
2/23/2000, “Post-Zionism and the Peace Process.” Greater Pacific Northwest Regional Middle East Seminar, University of Washington, Seattle.
Teaching Experience
Birzeit University, Birzeit, Palestine:
Graduate and Undergraduate Courses: Critical International Studies, The Arabs and the West, The Third World, Arab and Islamic Thought, European/Western Thought, Israeli Society, Settler Colonialism, Research Methodology, Palestinians in Israel, 9/11 and Global Politics, Palestinian Refugees and Identity, Big Powers and Global Politics, Big Powers and Regional Politics.
Middle East/South Asia Program, University of California at Davis.
Courses taught: Settler Colonialism in a Comparative Perspective, Palestine through Local Knowledge, Comparative Middle East/South Asia Studies.
Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan.
Courses taught: Ibn Khaldoun and Contemporary Social Sciences, Introduction to Critical Middle East Studies, Critical Readings in Islamic Studies.
University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh.
Courses taught: Critical Middle Eastern Studies, 9/11 and its Global Implications.
California Institute for Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA.
Graduate Courses taught: The Anthropology of the Middle East.
Asian American Studies Department, University of California, Davis.
Courses taught: 9/11 and Asian Americans.
Middle East/South Asia Studies, University of California, Davis.
Courses taught: 9/11 and Middle Easterners and South Asians.
History Department, University of California, Davis.
Courses taught: Critical Introduction to the Middle East.
Ethnic Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley.
Courses taught: 9/11 and its Local and Global implications.
Global Studies Department, Berkeley City College, Berkeley, CA. Courses taught: Critical Introduction to the Middle East.
University Service/Program Building
Birzeit University:
Committee Member for Developing Master’s Program in Israeli Studies, Committee Member for Developing an Interdisciplinary PhD program in Social Sciences and Humanities
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Institute of International Studies, Birzeit University:
Acting Director (Summer 2012), Coordinator for the South-South Initiative, Peace Studies Program Coordinator, PhD. Program Development Committee Member, Curriculum Committee Member, Research Quality Committee Member, Faculty Advisor and committee member for graduate students’ theses (18 students to date)
Professional Service
Advisory Board Member, Janus Unbound: Journal of Critical Studies Editorial Board Member, Interface: A Journal about and for Social Movements. Editorial Board Member, Resistance Studies Magazine.
Editor of H-Mideast-Politics. www.H-Net.Org Associate Editor, Journal of International Studies.
Reviewer for the International Studies Association (ISA) Compendium Project. Book Review Editor, Peace Studies Journal.
Editor, www.academia.edu
Guest Editor: Sociological Forum. Guest Editor: Philological Encounters.
Guest Editor: Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies.
Guest Editor: Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.
Guest editor at several academic publishers for books related to Palestine, Settler Colonialism, Ibn Khaldun
Membership
Arab Council for the Social Sciences American Studies Association Critical Ethnic Studies Association Ethnic Studies Association
Golden Key National Honor Society International Studies Association (ISA) Popular Culture Association Language Proficiency
Fluency in Arabic, Hebrew, German, and English.
Reading ability in French and Persian.
