Sherene Seikaly

Sherene Seikaly is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is coeditor of Journal of Palestine Studies and cofounder and coeditor of Jadaliyya e-zine. Seikaly’s Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine (2016) explores how Palestinian capitalists and British colonial officials used economy to shape territory, nationalism, the home, and the body. Her forthcoming book, From Baltimore to Beirut: On the Question of Palestine tells a global history of capital, slavery, and dispossession.