ABSTRACT
Zachary Lockman is a professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and History at New York University. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. His books include Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, and the Egyptian Working Class (with Joel Beinin) (1987); Workers and Working Classes in the Middle East: Struggles, Histories, and Historiographies (1993); Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906—1948 (1996); and Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism (2004, 2009). Among his edited works and essays are Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising against Israeli Occupation (with Joel Beinin) (1989); “Railway Workers and Relational History: Arabs and Jews in British-Ruled Palestine” in Comparative Studies in Society and History (1993); “Imagining the Working Class: Culture, Nationalism and Class Formation in Egypt, 1899–1914” in Poetics Today (1994); “Arab Workers and Arab Nationalism in Palestine: A View from Below” in Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East, Eds. James Jankowski and Israel Gershoni (1997); and “Explorations in the Field: Lost Voices and Emerging Practices in Egypt, 1882–1914” in Histories of the Modern Middle East: New Directions, Eds. Israeli Gershoni, Hakan Erdem, and Ursula Wokoeck (2002). He served as president of the Middle East Studies Association in 2007and is currently a contributing editor of Middle East Report.
