{"id":3554,"date":"2020-04-12T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-14T18:51:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T16:51:01","slug":"a-history-of-money-in-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2020\/04\/a-history-of-money-in-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"A History of Money in Palestine: From the 1900s to the Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dash.harvard.edu\/handle\/1\/12269876?fbclid=IwAR1xKQEm0He6wmsXNb22fqJphwJSOBC8RRb94y0sZu5hhaYvUomj-pZ5KCQ\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/ePalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Sreemati1-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-3555\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\nAs it is said, &#8220;Follow the money&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Several years ago my dear friend Dr. Sreemati Mitter was back in Palestine for a visit. She shared with me a hardcopy of her Harvard dissertation which I started to read but was unable to finish at the time. Thanks to the COVID-19 lockdown, I have been able to finish reading it. An absolute must-read if you are interested in Palestine and what happened to it.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n The dissertation is titled &#8220;A History of Money in Palestine: From the 1900s to the Present&#8221;. At face value, it is a history of the banking sector in Historic Palestine, but in reality, it is a deep, historic, and well-documented analysis of Palestine&#8217;s political economy, legal and economic resistance and resilience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n Today, Dr. Sreemati Mitter is the Kutayba Alghanim Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History and International and Public Affairs at Brown University. She is transforming her dissertation into a book. Her profile is at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brown.edu\/academics\/history\/people\/sreemati-mitter?fbclid=IwAR2BcpClv6OzD52rUY9xNnprVHN0OBVphmGpFdTBWabun4l__yq4sp3RGzU\">https:\/\/www.brown.edu\/academ\u2026\/history\/people\/sreemati-mitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Source and for a copy of the dissertation: <a href=\"http:\/\/nrs.harvard.edu\/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12269876?fbclid=IwAR1xKQEm0He6wmsXNb22fqJphwJSOBC8RRb94y0sZu5hhaYvUomj-pZ5KCQ\">http:\/\/nrs.harvard.edu\/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12269876<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it is said, &#8220;Follow the money&#8230;&#8221; Several years ago my dear friend Dr. Sreemati Mitter was back in Palestine for a visit. She shared with me a hardcopy of her Harvard dissertation which I started to read but was unable to finish at the time. Thanks to the COVID-19 lockdown, I have been able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[96,249,1149,279,179],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-3554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-96","tag-banks","tag-british-mandate-for-palestine-1922-1948","tag-money","tag-palestinian-refugees"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3554"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}