collective memory; surveillance, political control and population management; colonialism and post-colonialism; development and underdevelopment; developing nations; political sociology; social movements and social protest; the Palestinians in Israel

I received my Ph.D. degree from the University of Manchester, UK in 1991, and after two years of post-doctorate in the department of Labor Studies at Tel-Aviv University, I taught at a string of Israeli universities and colleges including the universities of Haifa, Tel-Aviv and the Hebrew university as well as in the colleges of Emek Yerzael and Beit Berl. In 1999 I joint the newly established department of Politics & Government at BGU and since 2004 I have been senior lecturer in the same department. I also taught at Columbia University, NY, USA and had been visiting senior lecturer at the Institute of Islamic Area Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan and senior research fellow at the Middle East Institute, The National University of Singapore.

Books:

Sa'di, A. H. 2014. Thorough Surveillance: The Genesis of Israeli Policies of Population Management, Surveillance & Political Control towards the Palestinians. Manchester: Manchester University Press

Sa'di, A. H. and Abu-Lughod, L. (eds) 2007. Nakba: Palestine, 1948 and the Claims of Memory. New-York: Columbia University Press

Articles and chapters:

Sa’di, A. H. 2013. “Remembrance and Narcissism in Narrating 1948 Palestine”, History & Anthropology. 24 (3): 419-29

Sa’di, A. H. 2012. “Colonialism and Surveillance”, in Ball, K. Haggerty, K and Lyon, D. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies. London: Routledge. 151-158

Sa'di, A. H. 2011. "Landscapes and memory and the memory of landscapes: Beyond erasure and reinscription" in Yacobi, H. & Fenster, T. (eds.), Remembering, Forgetting and the Construction of Space. Jerusalem: Van Leer & Hakibbutz Hameuchad (in Hebrew) 247-256

Sa'di, A. H. 2011. "Ominous designs: Israel’s strategies and tactics of controlling the Palestinians during the first two decades”, in Zureik, E. Lyon, D. & Abu-Laban, Y. (eds.), Surveillance and control in Israel/ Palestine. London: Routledge. 83-98

Sa’di, A. H. 2008. "Remembering Al-Nakba in a Time of Amnesia: On Silence, Dislocation and Time," Interventions.10 (3): 381-399

Sa’di, A. H. 2002. “Catastrophe, Memory and Identity: Al-Nakbah as a Component of Palestinian Identity”, Israel Studies. 7 (2): 175-198

Political sociology
Social movements and social protest
The colonial encounter (MA seminar)
Developing nations: from colonialism to globalization