Karma Nabulsi

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Karma Nabulsi is a Tutor and Fellow in Politics at St Edmund Hall at the University of Oxford, and the Library Fellow. [1] Her research is on 18th and 19th century political thought, the laws of war, and the contemporary history and politics of Palestinian refugees and representation. [2]

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Career

Nabulsi read for her master's and doctorate at Balliol College at the University of Oxford. She was an Open Prize Research Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College from 1998 to 2005. She was also the Jean Monnet Fellow in History at the European University Institute from 2000-2001. [3]

Nabulsi's research spans 18th and 19th century political thought, the laws of war, and the contemporary history and politics of Palestinian refugees, representation, and democracy. [4] [5] [6] [7]

While Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Nabulsi directed a civic needs assessment for Palestinian refugees, and was editor of its findings: Palestinians Register: Laying Foundations and Setting Directions, which was published in 2006. [8] From 2011-2016, she convened and directed a civic voter registration for Palestinian refugees to their national parliament in over 24 countries, working with the UN, the UNHCR, and UNRWA, and national and international central elections commissions. [9] The project created a secure online voting mechanism, designed with colleagues at Oxford, which is used by international institutions who serve the needs of refugees.

She directed a digital humanities programme sponsored by the British Academy, developed with scholars, museums, research institutes, and universities across the Global South. [10] [11] Published in 2017, it provides a bilingual open-access research and teaching resource. [12] The online course and research materials cover the Palestinian liberation movement during the anti-colonial era of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. [13]

She has written in the British press on the Palestinian experience and the British Government's 'Prevent' counter-terrorism strategy. [14] [15] [16]

She was previously the Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Department of Politics and International Relations in Oxford. [17] She is Equalities Officer of the UCU branch at the University of Oxford. [18]

Awards

In 2016, Nabulsi won the Oxford University Student Union ‘Special Recognition Award’. [19] In 2017, Nabulsi won the Guardian Higher Education Inspiring Leader award, and the ‘Arab Woman of the Year’ Award in Education. [20] [21] In 2019, she won the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) ‘Undergraduate Education Award’. [22] [23]

Selected works in English

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  2. ↑ "Karma Nabulsi". University of Oxford . Retrieved 24 November 2018.
  3. ↑ "Republicans without Republics: Director: Karma Nabulsi". users.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
  4. ↑ "Professor Karma Nabulsi". St Edmund Hall . Retrieved 24 November 2018.
  5. ↑ "Practising the Virtues". www.politics.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
  6. ↑ Nabulsi, Karma (2003). "Being Palestinian". Government and Opposition. 38 (4): 479–496. doi:10.1111/1477-7053.t01-1-00025. ISSN   1477-7053. S2CID   197691808.
  7. ↑ Nabulsi, Karma (1999). Traditions of war : occupation, resistance, and the law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-1-4356-1426-0. OCLC   184900958.
  8. ↑ Nabulsi, Karma. (2006). Palestinians Register : laying foundations and setting directions : report of the Civitas project. Civitas Research Project (University of Oxford. Nuffield College). Oxford: Nuffield College. ISBN   978-0-9554053-0-3. OCLC   77518346.
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  10. ↑ "Republicans without Republics: British Academy Programme on Contemporary Palestinian History". users.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
  11. ↑ "The Palestinian Revolution". learnpalestine.politics.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
  12. ↑ "Online teaching resources on 'the untold story of the Palestinian Revolution' | University of Oxford". www.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
  13. ↑ "A struggle with history". the Guardian. 2017-01-28. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
  14. ↑ Nabulsi, Karma (21 March 2014). "Despite the cruelties heaped on them, Palestinian refugees' spirit has not broken". The Guardian .
  15. ↑ Nabulsi, Karma (12 September 2006). "Karma Nabulsi: The pain of being Palestinian (wherever you live)". The Independent .
  16. ↑ Nabulsi, Karma (18 May 2017). "Don't Go to the Doctor: Karma Nabulsi writes about Prevent". London Review of Books . pp. 27–28.
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