The Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies Presents: Gaza Out of the Strip: Past, Present, and Possible Futures after October 7th

Dotan Halevy is a social and environmental historian of the modern Middle East, focusing on the transformation of borderlands and how they shape political spaces and social identities. Dotan completed his Ph.D. in History at Columbia University under the supervision of Prof. Rashid Khalidi, and he is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Polonsky Academy, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, where he writes his first monograph titled Stripped: Ruination, Liminality, and the Making of the Gaza Strip 1840-1950. Over the past decade, Dotan taught and published on the history of Gaza in academic and public venues. Earlier this year, the Hebrew anthology Israel’s Heterotopia: Gaza in Israeli Politics and Culture, which he co-edited with Omri (Hanna) Ben Yehuda, came out with Gama publishers in Israel.

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