July 2025 – Everyday Orientalism
3 posts published by everydayorientalism during July 2025| Everyday Orientalism
3 posts published by everydayorientalism during July 2025| Everyday Orientalism
We are thrilled to announce an upcoming international workshop entitled Cities on the Edge: Documenting, Preserving, and Teaching Endangered Urban Heritage in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine. The event will take place on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, 2025 at AUC Tahrir Square, downtown Cairo, and it will be livestreamed on zoom. Cities on the Edge … Continue reading Save the date! Endangered Urban Heritage in Egypt, Sudan and Palestine Workshop→| Everyday Orientalism
by Marchella Ward Cover image: Ancient columns in Sebastia, 1925. Image: Wiki Commons. In May 2025, Walaa Ghazzal, the curator of the archaeological museum at Sebastia, in the occupied West Bank, s…| Everyday Orientalism
by Usama Ali Gad and Katherine Blouin Cover picture: Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion arrives by helicopter at the archaeological excavations at Hatzor, accompanied by Shimon Peres and former Hagana…| Everyday Orientalism
Everyday Orientalism is proud to co-sponsor an emergency meeting on archaeology and apartheid organised by the Society for the Study of the Past. Following the UN Special Rapporteur on Occupied Pal…| Everyday Orientalism
5 posts published by everydayorientalism during September 2024| Everyday Orientalism
by Chance Bonar Eusebius Pamphilius, bishop of Caesarea Maritima (modern Qesarya/قِيسارْيَة, Israel), is a fixture in the study of ancient Christianity. Living from the 260s to 339 CE and spending much of his life in the Roman province of Syria Palaestina, Eusebius was a student of the Christian scholar Pamphilius and of the works of … Continue reading The Father of Church History was Palestinian – #EOPalestine 21→| Everyday Orientalism
cover picture by Georgia M. Andreou: GAZAMAP students at work before October 2023 Archaeology has a long legacy of separating heritage from its contemporary context. The ongoing destruction in Gaza has in the cruellest way possible, made clear that archaeology is political. Let’s stop pretending it is not. – Georgia M. Andreou and Anonymous Gazan … Continue reading How to Help Gazan History & Archaeology Students Finish their Degree→| Everyday Orientalism
by Marchella Ward on behalf of the Critical Ancient World Studies and Everyday Orientalism teams What does it mean to do history in the ruins of history? Since October 7th 2023, historians have been working in the ruins of history. The deliberate destruction of archaeological and heritage sites, many of which go back millennia, has … Continue reading Introducing… the Society for the Study of the Past→| Everyday Orientalism
by Matthew Ong American student protests against Israel’s genocide in Gaza (and its apartheid system overall) have generated two types of complaints regarding what goes on in universities these days. One is that the demands frequently associated with these protests, such as university divestment and broader disengagement from the state of Israel, are forms of … Continue reading Shallow Institutional Neutrality and the Educational Mission: How University Administrators’ Reactions to Stud...| Everyday Orientalism
by Amidu Mutaru, Alyanna Denise Chua, and Girish Daswani Introduction (by Girish Daswani) Yusuf is from Ghana. In 2024, he was admitted into a fully-funded PhD program at a globally recognized university in Canada—the University of Toronto (U of T). Once he received his letter of admission, which included a commitment to pay his tuition … Continue reading Desirable Commodities, Undesirable Migrants: Black International Students in Canadian Universities→| Everyday Orientalism
This event is co-organized by the Critical Ancient World Studies Collective and Everyday Orientalism. It is the 2nd of our ongoing series of Roundtables In solidarity with Palestine. You can access the 1st roundtable here. Abstract A year and a half of the most recent escalation of Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians has left history … Continue reading In the Ruins of History: A CAWS/#EOTalks Roundtable in Solidarity with Palestine→| Everyday Orientalism
cover image and (unless stated otherwise) all photos by Fadel AlUtol On January 27, 2025, Gazan archaeologist Fadel AlUtol and his family joined hundreds of thousands of Gazans in a long walk that brought them from their place of refuge in southern Gaza to Gaza city, in the now liberated northern part of the Strip. … Continue reading Heritage first: Archaeological update from Northern Gaza→| Everyday Orientalism
cover image: Detail from the Madaba Mosaic Map (6th c. CE; what is left of the toponym “Gaza” is visible on the top left, above a representation of the city) by CAWS and EO teams A year and a half of the most recent escalation of Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians has left history in … Continue reading In Solidarity with Palestine II: In the Ruins of History→| Everyday Orientalism
cover picture: Palestinian olives served at Toronto’s Louf restaurant; handmade dish by Nur Minawi As 2024 comes to an end, we are sharing the 15 most-viewed publications of the year. Huge thanks to all the guest contributors for their trust and voices, as well as to all who read, watched, taught and engaged with us! … Continue reading Everyday Orientalism’s Top 15 of 2024→| Everyday Orientalism
by Girish Daswani cover picture: Student banner, UTSC, October 2024 This post is a sequel to the April 2024 blogpost “How the University Harms Students during a Genocide”. The specificity of information shared is only possible due to the courage of several undergraduate students who approached and spoke to the author on their own accord … Continue reading Laughing at Genocide: On Anti-Palestinian Racism in Higher Education→| Everyday Orientalism
by Mariana Medellín Canales cover picture by the author Palestine in my Life & Art Picture 1 (David Meinke): ‘Let me go’, street art intervention about the Liberation of Palestine outside of the Royal Ontario Museum. November 2015, Toronto I’m a street/guerilla artist from southern Turtle Island now known as ‘mexico’[1]. I became aware of … Continue reading Solidarity Art Making at the University of Toronto’s People’s Circle for Palestine: Choosing to Learn from Unfette...| Everyday Orientalism
by Marchella Ward cover art: Courtyard, arcades and minaret of the Great Omari Mosque, which the IOF largely destroyed on Dec. 8, 2023 (picture from the late 19th century; source: Wikipedia) This material draws from a talk I gave on October 7th 2024, marking one year of the most recent escalation of genocidal violence against … Continue reading Can Islamophobia be historiographical? – #EOPalestine 20→| Everyday Orientalism
by Moudhy Al-Rashid cover: Detail from a clay tablet letter in Akkadian that references a military officer named Addaya’s house in Gaza (EA 289, c. 1,400-1,100 BCE; found in Amarna (ancient Akhetaten), Egypt, now in Berlin). Image from the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative In the 1,300s BCE, the ancient Middle East entered an international age. … Continue reading Melting Pot Middle East: Ancient Palestine and Lebanon in the Amarna Letters – #EOPalestine 19→| Everyday Orientalism
by a History Professor cover art: “Jerusalem” (2023) by artist and educator Heba Zagout, who the IOF killed in her Gaza home on Oct. 13, 2023. Picture from her Instagram account. The English name for the modern city of Jerusalem is derived from the Hebrew Yerushalayim (יְרוּשָׁלַיִם). While the post-biblical vocalization of the name in … Continue reading The Names of Jerusalem – #EOPalestine 18→| Everyday Orientalism
by Matthew Ong cover art: Helios surrounded by a zodiac wheel, detail from the mosaic floor of the Hammat Tiberias Synagogue, 4th c. CE (picture from Wikipedia) During Roman rule there was no forced mass expulsion of people living in the region surrounding the province of Judea to an area outside that region. This holds … Continue reading Myth: “In 70 CE Jews were expelled from their homes in the coastal Southeastern Mediterranean” – #EOPalestine 17 →| Everyday Orientalism
by Matthew Sears cover picture: Modern monument of Leonidas in front of the municipal race track in Sparta (Matthew Sears) Tennessee recently boasted about members of its National Guard deploying to the “Middle East” as part of “Operation Spartan Shield.” These soldiers will join Task Force Spartan, a US military organization based in Saudi Arabia … Continue reading Spartans in Palestine: When “Free” Societies Are Based on Oppression – #EOPalestine 16→| Everyday Orientalism
by Stephennie Mulder Cover art: Mosaic fragment depicting King David in the guise of the Greek musician and prophet Orpheus, from the Synagogue of Gaza, 508 CE (Wikimedia Commons) If you’ve heard that assertion before, you’re not alone. There’s only one problem: it’s not true. While it’s certainly true that the region has known its … Continue reading Religious coexistence in Gaza – #EOPalestine 15→| Everyday Orientalism
by Matthew Ong cover art: Cover of the book Palestine: Land of Jewish Immigration and Colonization, published in 1925-1926 by United Palestine Appeal (image from The Palestine Poster Project Archives) A major pillar of Zionism is the belief that the modern state of Israel replicates significant aspects of what previously existed in the ancient state … Continue reading Myth: “Ancient Israel = modern Israel” – #EOPalestine 14→| Everyday Orientalism
by Heba Mostafa Cover art: The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem with the Dome of the Chain in the foreground, c. 692 CE. (Photo: Heba Mostafa) The Haram al-Sharif and its central shrine, the Dome of the Rock (Qubbat al-Sakhra), in Jerusalem have long enthralled specialists and the general public alike due to their fascinating … Continue reading The Dome of the Rock: A Reading List – #EOPalestine 13→| Everyday Orientalism
by Zeta Xekalaki cover picture: Aerial view of the ancient city of Megiddo (Wikipedia) This post will focus on the period spanning from the Chalcolithic (4500–3500 BCE) to the Iron Age (1200–586 BCE). Since the Chalcolithic period (4500–3500 BCE), populations from the Levant (modern-day Palestine/Israel, Lebanon, southern Syria, and Jordan) reached the Nile’s Eastern Delta, … Continue reading Egypt and the Levant: A long history of connections and exchanges – #EOPalestine 12→| Everyday Orientalism
by Noha Abou-Khatwa cover art: “Jerusalem is my city” (2020) by artist and educator Heba Zagout, who the IOF killed in her Gaza home on Oct. 13, 2023. Picture from her Instagram account. As the gate to the Levant, the Muslim conquest of Gaza was amongst the earliest of Arab victories against the Byzantine army. … Continue reading Myth: “Palestinians are all Muslim and as such they are antisemites” – #EOPalestine 11→| Everyday Orientalism
by Georgia Andreou cover art: Detail from “Woman Carrying Jerusalem” (1979) by Sliman Mansour; shared with the artist’s permission The value of archaeology and cultural heritage i…| Everyday Orientalism
The Father of Church History was Palestinian – #EOPalestine 21| Everyday Orientalism
by Katherine Blouin Last Fall, I decided to do a little experiment in my 1st-year undergraduate course “The Ancient Mediterranean” (a Classics and History course). On the first day of c…| Everyday Orientalism
