Aamer Ibraheem
Dissertation Review Committee
Research Concentrations
Anthropology of History, Settler Colonialism, Personhood, Kinship, Anthropology of Religion
Regions
Middle East; Syria, Israel, Palestine
Biography
Ibraheem's ethnographic fieldwork and archival research are located in the Golan Heights in south-western Syria (today’s northern Israel). He is interested in questions of historical continuities; of annexation after settler-colonialism; and in exploring how theological grammars come into tense symbiosis with sovereign polities.
Ibraheem is the 2024-2025 Paloheimo Predoctoral Fellow at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the recipient of a dissertation fieldwork grant from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Palestinian American Research Center (PARC). In 2022-2023, he was a fellow at the Evasion Lab Research Collective.
Education
Tel-Aviv University, MA in Women and Gender Studies, 2016
University of Haifa, BSW in Social Work, 2013
2025. "Elevated: Attuned to White Things.” Current Anthropology, (Photographic Essay), Vol. 66, No. 1.
2024. "Reincarnated: Common Sense and the Poetics of Elsewhere." In Producing Palestine: The Creative Production of Palestine Through Contemporary Media (pp. 95-106), (Eds.) Helga Tawil-Souri and Dina Matar. (SOAS Palestine Studies). Bloomsbury.
2022. "Jawlān." Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Vol. 15, Issue 4, Special Issue: Keywords in Contemporary Syrian Media, Culture and Politics, pp. 358–366 (co-authored with historian Adrien Zakar, University of Toronto).
2020. “On Fleeing Colonial Captivity: Fugitive Arts in the Occupied Jawlan.” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, Vol. 29, Issue 5, pp. 691-710 (co-authored with anthropologist Nadeem Karkabi, University of Haifa).
2020. “Memory and Exile: On Filmmaking in the Syrian Jawlan.” Majallat al-Dirasat al-Filastiniyya [Journal for Palestine Studies], Vol. 31, No. 121, pp. 111-123.
2020. “Return to Ruin: A Conversation with Anthropologist Zainab Saleh.” Borderlines [mentored by Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (CSSAAME)].