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religion, nationalism, modernity, visual culture, Palestine, Jerusalem, contemporary art, film, religious art, cultural policy, cultural diplomacy

Biography

Sary Zananiri is a cultural producer, theorist and heritage specialist. He is currently writing a monograph, Photographing Biblical Modernity: Frank Scholten in British Mandate Palestine (IB Tauris, forthcoming). He has co-edited two volumes with Karène Sanchez Summerer Imaging and Imagining Palestine: Photography, Modernity and the Biblical Lens (Brill, 2021) and European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine: Between Contention and Connection (Palgrave McMillan, 2021). He has written numerous book chapters and journal articles on Palestinian visual culture.

Recent exhibitions include the Qattan Foundation, Ramallah (2023), University of Groningen Library (2023), INALCO, Paris (June-July 2022), the Mawjoudin Queer Film Festival, Tunis (September 2022), the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (December 2021-February 2022), the National Glass Museum, Wagga Wagga (July-November 2021), Rijksmuseum Oudheden, Leiden (May-October 2020) and Der Haus Der Kunst der Welt for ALMS, Berlin (June 2019).

He was a Postdoctoral Fellow on the NWO funded project CrossRoads: European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine 1918-1948 and the Netherlands Institute for the Near East at Leiden University, a visiting scholar at Dar al Kalima in Bethlehem, and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens.

Activities

Employment (2)

Leiden University: Leiden, NL

2018-09-01 to 2022-07-31 | Postdoctoral Onderzoeker (LUCL)
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Monash University - Caulfield Campus: Caulfield East, VIC, AU

2013 to 2018 | Associate Lecturer (Fine Arts)
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Education and qualifications (3)

Monash University: Melbourne, Victoria, AU

2014 | PhD (Fine Arts)
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Monash University: Melbourne, Victoria, AU

2004 | BFA (Honours) (Fine Arts)
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The University of Sydney Sydney College of the Arts: Rozelle, NSW, AU

2003 | B Visual Art (Object Art and Design) (Fine Arts)
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Works (13)

Unsilencing Palestine 1922–1923: hundred years after the beginning of the British Mandate – the Frank Scholten photographic collection revisited

Contemporary Levant
2024-01-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Karène Sanchez Summerer; Sary Zananiri
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City of Peace, City of Conflict: The Politics of Jerusalem in Popular Culture

For the Record, Het Nieuwe Instituut
2021 | Interactive resource
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European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine, 1918–1948

Springer International Publishing
2021 | Book
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Imaging and Imagining Palestine: Photography, Modernity and the Biblical Lens 1918-1948

Brill
2021 | Edited book
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Introduction

European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine, 1918–1948
2021 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9783030555399
Part of ISBN: 9783030555405
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Knowledge, Culture and Method Thoughts on Colonialism and Decolonization

Indigenous Solidarity: Testimonies and Narratives
2021 | Book chapter
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Indigeneity, Transgression and the Body: Orientalism and Biblification in the Popular Imaging of Palestinians

Journal of Intercultural Studies
2021-11-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0725-6868
Part of ISSN: 1469-9540
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Documenting the Social: Frank Scholten Taxonomising Identity in British Mandate Palestine

Imaging and Imagining Palestine
2021-05-26 | Book chapter
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Imaging and Imagining Palestine: An Introduction

Imaging and Imagining Palestine
2021-05-26 | Book chapter
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Frank Scholten Photographing Palestine

CrossRoads
2020 | Interactive resource
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Frank Scholten: landschap in het Brits Mandaat Palestina

Fotografisch geheugen 96
2019 | Journal article
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From Still to Moving Image: Shifting Representation of Jerusalem and Palestinians in the Western Biblical Imaginary

Jerusalem Quarterly Issue 67 - Autumn 2016
2016 | Journal article
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A City of Commerce in a Time of Plague

Insaniyyat Society of Palestinian Anthropologists Field Notes
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