Dr. Ihab Saloul

• University of Amsterdam
• Professor of culture and politics at the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics at Freie Universität Berlin
• Website: https://amsterdam.academia.edu/IhabSaloul
• E-mail: I.A.M.Saloul(at)uva.nl

• Short CV
  Dr. Ihab Saloul is an assistant professor of cultural studies, co-founder and academic coordinator of the Amsterdam School for Heritage and Memory Studies (ASHMS) at the University of Amsterdam. He is a visiting professor of culture and politics at the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics at Freie Universität Berlin, and a senior fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS). Saloul was a EUME-fellow at Wissenschaftkolleg zu Berlin, and taught previously comparative literature, art and media studies at Maastricht University.
  
  Saloul's research deals with competing memories and the aesthetics of displacement and exile in Palestinian and Israeli contemporary cultures, and his interests include cultural memory and identity politics, heritage and conflict, literary theory and visual analysis, trauma and postcolonial theory, migration and diaspora, art and museums, as well as contemporary cultural thought in the Middle East. He is a founding book series editor of ‘Palgrave Studies of Cultural Heritage and Conflict’ (Palgrave US), and ‘Heritage and Memory Studies’ at Amsterdam University Press (AUP). His publications include Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination: Telling Memories (Palgrave, 2012), and Zoom In: Palestinian Refugees of 1948, Remembrances (Republic of Letters, 2011).