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Ahmad Fahoum

Ahmad FAHOUM

PhD Researcher in International History and Politics
Spoken languages
Arabic, English, Hebrew, French, Turkish, Ottoman Turkish
Areas of expertise
  • Public health
  • Agriculture, land and rural development
  • Environment and Society
  • History of Settler Colonialism
  • History of Medicine

PhD Thesis

 

Title: Cycles of Water, Life and Death: Histories of Water Management and Sanitation in Palestine under British Rule, 1917-1948

PhD Supervisor & 2nd Reader: Davide Rodogno and Amalia Ribi Forclaz

Expected completion date: 2023

 

Profile

 

My research titled "Cycles of Water, Life and Death: Histories of Water Management and Sanitation in Palestine under British Rule, 1917-1948", focuses on the politics behind water management schemes and projects in the name of development, while also being tools for social engineering of the land. I attempt to employ different lenses to look at assess the water management projects including public health, agriculture, and landscape and environment. I am also Prof. Rodogno’s Research Assistant in the SNF-funded project titled "Rockefeller Fellows as Heralds of Globalization, 1920s-1970s", a propographic research focusing on the trajectories of the Rockefeller fellows. I am fluent in Arabic, English and Hebrew and can read in French, Modern and Ottoman Turkish.

 

Research Interests

 

  • International Histories
  • Ottoman History
  • Histories of Settler Colonialism
  • Circulation of Knowledge and Ideas
  • History of Medicine
  • Environmental History

 

Academic Work Experience

 

Research Experience

Research Assistant of Prof. Davide Rodogno in the SNF-funded project "Rockefeller Fellows as Heralds of Globalization, 1920s-1970s” led by Prof. Ludovic Tournès from the University of Geneva.

 

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