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Areej Sabbagh-Khoury is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (currently on leave) and Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her doctorate from Tel Aviv University and completed research posts at Columbia, Brown, and Tufts Universities. Her academic career bridges Israeli and American institutions, reflecting her transnational scholarly perspective on Israeli-Palestinian relations.
Dr. Sabbagh-Khoury's research focuses on the political and historical sociology of settler colonialism, with particular attention to citizenship, memory, and knowledge production in the context of Palestinian citizens of Israel. Her work critically examines how power operates through institutional, discursive, and ideological frameworks to maintain structures of hierarchy and exclusion within settler colonial regimes. Methodologically, she employs historical archival research, ethnography, in-depth interviews, and discourse analysis to unravel the material and symbolic mechanisms of colonial domination.
Her influential book Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba (Stanford University Press, 2023) challenges conventional narratives about the Socialist Zionist left, revealing its role in reinforcing settler colonial logic through land appropriation, population transfer, and legal-political frameworks. Her current NIAS fellowship project for 2025-2026, Settler Colonial Citizenship Between Ethno-Nationalist and Neoliberal Governmentality, investigates the apparent contradiction between exclusionary settler colonial practices and recent economic investments targeting Palestinians in Israel.
Dr. Sabbagh-Khoury's scholarly output demonstrates consistent engagement with critical questions of power, inequality, and resistance. Her publications reveal a trajectory that moves from historical analysis of the Nakba's formation to contemporary examinations of settler colonial governance, showing how foundational power relations continue to influence Israel-Palestine's sociopolitical landscape. Her work connects micro-level memory practices with macro-level structures of settler colonialism, offering nuanced understandings of indigenous resistance and colonial disavowal.
Her research has been published in top-tier journals including Sociological Theory, Politics and Society, Theory and Society, and Current Sociology. She has also co-edited volumes on Palestinians in Israel, contributing to both Hebrew and Arabic academic discourse on Palestinian politics and society within Israel.
