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Falestin Naïli is a historian specializing in the social history of late Ottoman Mandate Palestine and Jordan. Her recent research focuses on local governance and politics, particularly in Jerusalem. She is interested in collective memory and oral history, which links historical narratives to contemporary issues of heritage politics. Naïli is a core team member of the European Research Council project "Opening Jerusalem’s Archives" at the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo) in Amman, where she served as researcher from 2017 to 2020. She completed her Ph.D. thesis at Aix-en-Provence in 2007, which examined the history of the village of Artas, located south of Bethlehem, from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century, focusing on the collective memory of the villagers' descendants who were once settled there by Europeans. Her book, entitled "La Palestine entre Patrimoine et Providence: imaginaires bibliques et mémoire au village d’Artâs, XIX et XX siècles," was published by Karthala in Paris in 2022. Naïli has published work on urban governance in Jerusalem, millenarist settlement, missionary projects in Palestine, forced migration in the contemporary Middle East, early ethnographies of Palestine, and issues surrounding collective memory and heritage. In 2023, she received a Consolidator Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation to lead her current project entitled "Futures Interrupted: social pluralism and political projects of coloniality in the nation-state."
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