Centre for Palestine Studies

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Centre for Palestine Studies Associate Member Centre for Global Media and Communications Professorial Research Associate
Department
Centre for Palestine Studies
Email address
hb26@soas.ac.uk

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Professor Haim Bresheeth is a filmmaker, photographer and a film studies scholar, retired from the University of East London, where he worked since since early 2002.

His books include the best-selling Introduction to the Holocaust (with Stuart Hood, 2 reprints since 1997), the first version was titled Holocaust for Beginners (1993) and was also reprinted a number of times; This title was also published in Turkish, Croatian and Japanese translations, and is being translated into other languages.

His edited volumes include The Gulf War and the New World Order, (with Nira Yuval-Davis) published in 1992 by Zed Books, Cinema and Memory: Dangerous Liaisons, Co-edited with Sand, S and Zimmerman, M, Zalman Shazar Centre, Jerusalem (Hebrew) 2004, and a co-edited volume with Haifa Hammami The Conflict and Contemporary Visual Culture in Palestine & Israel, special double-issue of Third Text on Palestinian and Israeli Art, Literature, Architecture and Cinema.

He has been on the Editorial Board of the Journal Khamsin for many years until its demise in 1991, and has published widely in Hebrew and English on Palestinian and Israeli film, and is currently working on the representation of the other and stranger in European film. His films include the widely-shown State of Danger (1989, BBC2) – a documentary on the first Palestinian Intifada.

He has also written many newspaper articles in Hebrew, mainly published in the Israeli Ha’aretz broadsheet, as well as English language articles, mainly published by the Cairo-based Al-Ahram Weekly. 

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