Nadia Abu El-Haj

Nadia Abu El-Haj is Ann Olin Whitney Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University, and codirector of the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia. She is the author of Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society; The Genealogical Science: The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology; and most recently Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in post–9/11 America.

Storm Over Columbia

“The only reason we didn’t descend into violence that day was that the students remained calm. They were the only adults in the room.”

April 27, 2024

‘The Eye of the Beholder’

Administrators at Columbia and other US universities have been cracking down on student protest against the war in Gaza—even as right-wing politicians demand they go further.

December 24, 2023

Distressed Genes: An Exchange

January 10, 2013 issue

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