Karène Sanchez Summerer
Karène Sanchez Summerer is Associate Professor at Leiden University. She obtained her two PhDs from Leiden University and from EPHE (Paris Sorbonne).She is the PI of the research project CrossRoads (VIDI project funded by The Netherlands National Research Agency NWO; 2017-2022). Her research considers the cultural identification and multilingualism of Arab communities in the Levant (1900-1960); the interactions between European linguistic and cultural policies and the Arab communities (1860-1960) in the Levant; Preachers in Arab communities in the Levant (1870-1970). Within her different projects, she collaborates closely with the French, British and German National Research agencies, as well as the agencies research groups based in Jerusalem, Beirut and Cairo. She is the co-editor of the series Languages and Culture in History with W. Frijhoff, Amsterdam University Press. She is one of the coordinators of the MisSMO research program about Christian Missions and societies in the Middle East since the late 19th century (Jan. 2017- Dec. 2021)Editor bio: Sary Zananiri Sary Zananiri is an artist and cultural historian. He is primarily interested in the interplay between religion, nationalism, colonialism and visual culture in Palestine. His interdisciplinary approach engages with the ways in which the production of visual culture can explicate political phenomena through a focus on social and cultural histories. He completed his PhD at Monash University looking at the confluence of 19th-century Western colonial imaging of the Palestinian landscape and Zionist narrative. He currently works on the NWO project 'CrossRoads: European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine 1918-1948' led by Dr Karène Sanchez as well as the Netherlands Institute for the Near East as the Frank Scholten Postdoctoral Researcher. His current research projects focus queer Dutch photographer, Frank Scholten, and on the transnational deployments of Palestinian nationalism through Palestinian-produced Christian religious goods such as iconography, mother of pearl and photography, as well as writing widely on art, photography, cinema.
