Dr. Nubar Hovsepian

Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications

Review Essay of Nathan Thrall's, "The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine." Journal of Palestine Studies, Fall 2017.

Biographical Portrait of Edward W. Said, Submitted to the Palestinian Museum, Ramallah, Palestine

“Letter to My Friend Edward: The Discussion Continues.” Bidayat,” a quarterly journal of Arab politics and culture. Number 7, Winter 2014. Beirut, Lebanon.

Review Essay of Nurit Peled-Elhanan's: Palestine in Israeli School Books: Ideology and Propaganda in Education," in "Journal of Palestine Studies," Volume XLII, Number 3, Spring 2013.

Review Essay of Asef Bayat's: Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, in "Bidayat," (Arabic Quarterly). Winter/Spring 2012.

“Life as Politic” review essay of ASEF Bayat’s Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East. “ Bidayat,” a quarterly journal of Arab politics and culture. Winter and Spring 2012 (Beirut, Lebanon).

Review Essay of Sara Roy’s: Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging The Islamist Social Sector, in “Journal of Palestine Studies, Spring 2012.

“The Arab-Pro-Democracy Movement: Struggles to Redefine Citizenship,” 9 February 2011. http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/588/the-arab-pro-democracy-movement_struggles-to-redefine-citizenship

“Edward W. Said: The Conscious Pariah,” Introduction for the second edition of, The Pen and the Sword: Conversations With David Barsamian (2010). “Palestinian Education in a Virtual State,” chapter in: Osma Abi- Mershed (editor) Trajectories of Education in the Arab World: Legacies and Challenges,” Routledge 2010.

Palestinian State Formation: Education and the Construction of National Identity. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Ltd. 2009.

“Israel, Zionism and Occupation,” Review Essay of Joel Kovel, Overcoming Zionsim; Saree Makdisi, Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation; Michael Neumann, The Case Against Israel. Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 37, No.3 Spring 2009. “Zionism and Scholarship,” Review Essay of Gabriel Piterberg, Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel. Arab Studies Quarterly, Summer 2009.

The War on Lebanon, editor (and contributor of one chapter in addition to the introduction and afterword). Olive Branch Press (imprint of Interlink Publishing) 2008.

“Introduction” (pages 1-17). In: The War on Lebanon, ed. Nubar Hovsepian. Interlink 2008. “State-Society Relations and the Reproduction of the Lebanese Confessional System” (pages 28-49). In: The War on Lebanon, ed. Nubar Hovsepian. Interlink 2008.