Biography
I have taught and served as a visiting professor at several universities, including Ben-Gurion University, Israel; Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan; The National University of Singapore; Columbia University, New York; and the College of Social Science and Humanities at the Ruhr Alliance universities, Essen University, Germany. I have published over fifty peer-reviewed articles and chapters, in addition to three books. My research has appeared in eight languages, including English (mainly), Japanese, and German.
My areas of interest include Collective memory, surveillance, population management and political control, political sociology, history of sociopolitical ideas, the Global South since independence, colonialism/postcolonialism, Israel/ Palestine, as well as consciousness evolution and its articulation in culture. Currently, I am working on a monograph focusing on Palestinian culture.
Selected publications
- Sa’di A H. 2025. Democracy as a utopia and democracy as a tool of domination: the structural roles of race, class, and coloniality in Western democratic regimes. Politikon. 52 (1): 81-98.
- Sa'di A. H, & Masalha, N. (eds). 2023. Decolonizing the Study of Palestine: Indigenous Perspectives and Settler Colonialism after Elia Zureik. London: I.B. Tauris.
- Sa’di A H. 2022. Arts in Dark Times: on goodness and thorniness of Palestinians under Israeli rule. Third Text. 177, 36 (4): 1-20.
- Sa’di A H. 2021. Orientalism in a globalised world: Said in the 21st century. Third World Quarterly. 24 (11): 2505-2520.
- Sa’di A H. 2021. Israel’s settler-colonialism as a global security paradigm. Race & Class. 63 (2): 21-37.
- 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, Abu-Lughod L. (eds). 2007. Nakba: Palestine, 1948 and the Claims of Memory. New York: Columbia University Press.