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Kareem M. Rabie

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences  |  Anthropology

Kareem Rabie is Associate Professor of Anthropology at The University of Illinois, Chicago. His work focuses on privatization, urban development, and the state-building project in the West Bank. Previously he was Assistant Professor of Anthropology at American University in Washington, DC; Harper-Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago; and Marie Curie Fellow/Senior Researcher at the University of Oxford Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society

Kareem M. Rabie

Kareem M. Rabie

Book Cover: Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank by Kareem Rabie

Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank

Duke University Press

In this book Kareem Rabie examines how the conference and Fayyad’s rhetoric represented a wider shift in economic and political practice in ways that oriented state-scale Palestinian politics toward neoliberal globalization rather than a diplomatic two-state solution.