Rona Sela òáøéú
Curator  
 
 
 Link to Books and Catalogues
 
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 "Resilient Resistance: Colonial Biblical, Archaeological and Ethnographical Imaginaries in the Work of Chalil Raad (Khalīl Raʿd), 1891–1948." Imaging and Imagining Palestine, edited by Karène Sanchez Summerer and Sary Zananiri. The Netherlands: Brill, 2021, 185-226.
 
 "A Question of Responsibility", Book Review, Jerusalem Quarterly 85, spring 2021: 137-144
 
 "Ghosts in the Archive: The Palestinian Villages and the Decolonial Archives," GeoJournal, 2021
 
 “Imprisoned Photographs”: The Looted Archive of Photo Rissas (Rassas)—Ibrahim and Chalil (Khalil) Rissas, Intermédialités 32 (Concealing), 2019
 
 Restitution of Looted Art - "Palestinian Materials, Images and Archives held by Israel," Research Paper, Swisspeace, 2018
 
 Israel's Art Scene Is Whitewashing the Nakba, Haaretz, December 28th, 2018
 
 Ali Za‘arur: Early Palestinian Photojournalism, the Archive of Occupation and the Return of Palestinian Material to Their Owners, Jerusalem Quarterly 74, 2018: 48-56
 
  "Seized in Beirut - The Plundered Archives of the Palestinian Cinema Institution", Anthropology of The Middle East 12 (2), 2017: 83-114.
 
 
 
 "The Genealogy of Colonial Plunder and Erasure – Israel's Control over Palestinian Archives", Social Semiotics 28: 2 (2018). Published online (3 March 2017)
 
 "Palestinian Archives in Israel: A History of Silencing", Haoketz, 5.6.2016
 
 "The Hump of colonialism, or The Archive as a Site of Resistance" - L'internationale - Decolonsing Practices, 2016
 
 "Rethinking National Archives in Colonial Countries and Zones of Conflict", Ibraaz, Platform 006, January 2014, also published in: Dissonant Archives: Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East, ed. Anthony Downey, IB Tauris, 2015, 79-91.
 
 "The Archive of Horror", Ibraaz, Platform 006, 2013
 
 "Scouting Palestinian Territory 1940-1948: Haganah Village Files, Aerial Photos and Surveys", in Jerusalem Quarterly 52: 38-50 , Salim Tamari and Issam Nassar (eds.), Winter 2013
 
 The Family Tree, Haaretz Supplement, The English edition, 17.6.2011
 
 The Palestinian Villages pre 1948, Haaretz Supplement, The English edition, 21.05.2011
 
 "Women photographers in the private arena, Women Photographers in the Public arena", in Women Artists in Israel , 1920-1970, Markus Ruth (ed.), Hakibutz Hameuchad Publishing House and Tel Aviv University Publishing House, Summer 2008
 
 
 
 
 
 “Genealogy of an image in public consciousness. From David Rubinger’s photograph of paratroopers beside the western wall to Alex Levak’s photograph of the affair of bus line 300", in: Israel , The Chaim Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel, Tammy Razi &Naama Shefie (eds.), Summer 2008 : 161-180(Hebrew). Also published in: Die Neuen Hebräer, Doreet LeVitte Hartman (ed), Germany: Nicolai, 2005 (in German).
 
 “Pictorial History of Palestine”, Theory and Criticism 31, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 302-310, Yehuda Shenhav (ed.), 2007 (Hebrew)
 
 
 
 "The Absent-Present Palestinian Villages", Terminal, 2006 (Hebrew, editor: Dalia Manor); History of Photography 33 (2), 2009: 71-79.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 "In the Eyes of the Beholder -Aspects of Early Palestinian Photography" (English), Published originally in Hebrew in Photography in Palestine in the 1930s & 1940s, 2000
 
 
 
 
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