I am social historian and historical geographer of Palestinian’s rural landscapes. I have completed my PhD at the University of Haifa (2022). Previously, I served as a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley, as a Dan David Fellow at Tel Aviv University and as the Ernest S. Frerichs Annual Professor at The W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem.

In 2014, I initiated the Palestinian Rural History Project (PRHP) with the aim of mitigating the inevitable, but irreparable loss, of important information concerning the Palestinian countryside. So far, I have conducted over 1,500 oral history interviews concerning 800 Palestinian communities, or about 70% of inhabited sites in Mandatory Palestine. Through the PRHP, I specialized in the interdisciplinary, and often collaborative exploration, of rural Palestine at the intersection of socio-cultural history, geography, archaeology and ethnography from the Mamluk period until 1948.

My current postdoctoral project reassesses early intercommunal interactions in Palestine’s Jewish colonies, the moshavot (1878-1914), from local and transnational relational perspectives, highlighting encounters beyond those recorded in textbook nationalist historiographies. This project is part of my long-term effort to re-examine and re-contextualize the study of Palestine’s rural history and heritage using local, Arabic and Ottoman Turkish sources, in collaboration with fellow historians, archaeologists, geographers, sociologists, and researchers from cultural studies. My articles have recently figured in the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Levant, Agricultural History, and the Journal of Historical Geography, among other peer-reviewed journals.