Dr Sarah Irving

• Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

• Doctorate in Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh
• MSc in Arab World Studies, University of Edinburgh
• MA(Econ) in International Political Economy, University of Manchester
• BA (Hons) in Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge

• Palestine/Israel
• SWANA region
• History
• Colonialism
• Gender
• Labour
• Environmental history
• Subaltern studies
• Arabic

• Palestinian history
• Subaltern and colonial histories
• History of Archaeology
• Environmental history and humanities

Prior to returning to university, I worked in a number of small businesses and organisations concerned with environmental, human rights, animal rights and similar ethical questions, and provided press, communications and research services both as a freelance and staff member across the third sector. I supported and represented SMEs in the social enterprise sector on advisory boards at the Greater Manchester and NW regional level and have continued to mentor students interested in this sector.

[Journal article] Donations and their destinations in the 1927 Palestine Earthquake

Revue d’histoire culturelle, 2021

https://revues.mshparisnord.fr/rhc/index.php?id=1068

[Journal article] Palestine’s Syriac Orthodox community and the Dead Sea scrolls

Contemporary Levant, 2021

DOI: 10.1080/20581831.2021.1881720

[Book chapter] Palestinian Christians in the Mandate Department of Antiquities: History and Archaeology in a Colonial Space

In European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine, 1918–1948: Between Contention and Connection, ed. Karène Sanchez Summerer and Sary Zananiri

Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2021

[Book chapter] Introduction Part I Indigenising Cultural Diplomacy?

In European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine, 1918–1948: Between Contention and Connection, ed. Karène Sanchez Summerer and Sary Zananiri

Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2021

[Journal article] Elias Nasrallah Haddad: Translating Visions of Palestine

Jerusalem Quarterly, 2021

https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1651207

[Book chapter] Confronting the Mythic?: Najwan Darwish and Post-Millennium Palestinian Poetry

In Post-Millennial Palestine: Literature, Memory, Resistance, ed. Ahmad Qabaha and Rachel Gregory Fox

Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021

[Book review] Al-Fahum and the al-Fahum Registry: A study of Nazareth

Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 2021

DOI: 10.1080/00310328.2021.1877419

[Book] Cultural Entanglement in the Pre-Independence Arab World: Art, Thought and Literature (edited by Anthony Gorman and Sarah Irving)

London: IB Tauris, 2020

[Book chapter]

Stephan Hanna Stephan and Evliya Çelebi's Book of Travels: Tracing cooperation and conflict in Mandate Palestinian translations

In Cultural Entanglement in the Pre-Independence Arab World: Art, Thought and Literature (ed. Anthony Gorman and Sarah Irving)

London: IB Tauris, 2020

[Book chapter] ‘Translator, Native Informant, Fixer: Activism and Translation in Mandate Palestine’

In The Routledge Handbook of Translation & Activism, ed. Rebecca Ruth Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian

Abingdon: Routledge, 2020

[Book chapter] Nathan der Weise in Jerusalem: Elias Haddadʼs Re-appropriation of Tolerance in Mandate Palestine

In Translating World: Christianity across cultural boundaries, ed. Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz

Baden: Collectanea Instituti Anthropos, 2019

[Book chapter] An ‘Honorary Man’ in the Holy Land? Mary Eliza Rogers, Gender and British Protestant Imperialism

In British Women Travellers: Empire and Beyond, 1770–1870, edited By Sutapa Dutta

New York: Routledge, 2019

[Book review] Imperial perceptions of Palestine: British influence and power in late Ottoman times

Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 2019

DOI: 10.1080/00310328.2019.1695366

[Book review] Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel, by Orit Bashkin

Mashriq & Mahjar, 2019

https://doi.org/10.24847/66i2019.219

[Book review] On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and other displacements: selected writings

Contemporary Levant, 2019

DOI: 10.1080/20581831.2019.1644772

[Journal article] ‘This is Palestine’: history and modernity in guidebooks to Mandate Palestine

Contemporary Levant, 2019

DOI: 10.1080/20581831.2019.1594613

[Book review] From Khartoum to Jerusalem: the Dragoman Solomon Negima and his Clients (1885–1933)

Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 2018

DOI: 10.1080/00310328.2018.1496997

[Joural article] A Young Man of Promise: finding a place for Stephan Hanna Stephan in the History of Mandate Palestine

Jerusalem Quarterly, 2018

ISSN: 0334-4800

[Journal article] A Tale of Two Yusifs: Recovering Arab Agency in Palestine Exploration Fund Excavations, 1890-1924.

Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 2017

DOI: 10.1080/00310328.2017.1323294

[Journal article] Love as a Peace Process? Arab-Jewish Love in the Anglophone Palestinian Novels of Naomi Shihab Nye and Samir El-Youssef

Commonwealth Essays & Studies, 2017

https://doi.org/10.4000/ces.4611

[Book review] Mahmud Ghanayim, The Lure of the Title: Text and Context in Palestinian Fiction, 1948-2012.

Journal of Semitic Studies, 2017

DOI: 10.1093/jss/fgw047

[Journal article] Gender, Conflict, and Muslim-Jewish Romance: Reading ‘Ali al-Muqri's The Handsome Jew and Mahmoud Saeed’s The World Through the Eyes of Angels.

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, 2016

10.1215/15525864-3637554

[Book review] Rhetorics of belonging: nation, narration, and Israel/Palestine

Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 2016

DOI: 10.1080/14725886.2016.1242322

[Book review] Agency and Gender in Gaza: Masculinity, Femininity, and Family during the Second Intifada by Aitemad Muhanna

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, 2016

DOI: 10.1215/15525864-3507683

[Book review] Aesthetics of Sorrow: the wailing culture of Yemenite Jewish women

Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 2015

DOI: 10.1080/14725886.2015.1041266