Zachary Foster
Personal Profile
Zachary Foster is a historian of Palestine. His PhD is in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University. His dissertation is titled, “The Invention of Palestine.” He writes a newsletter, Palestine, in your Inbox, and is the founder of Palestine Nexus, a digital archive. Zach is proficient in Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, Italian and Spanish
Publications
with Emanuel Beška, “The Origins of the term “Palestinian” (“Filasá¹Ä«nÄ«”) in late Ottoman Palestine, 1898–1914.” Academia Letters 2021
“Why are Modern Famines so Deadly? The First World War in Syria and Palestine,” in
Environmental Histories of World War I , pp. 191-207 in Richard P. Tucker, Tait Keller, J.R. McNeill, and Martin Schmid, (eds.) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).
"Was Jerusalem Part of Palestine? The Forgotten City of Ramla, 900–1900" British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 43(4)(2016): 575-589.
“The 1915 Locust Attack in Syria and Palestine and its Role in the Famine During the First World War,” Middle Eastern Studies 51(3)(2015):370-394.
“The Diary of Sami Yengin, 1917-8: The End of Ottoman Rule in Syria,” Jerusalem Quarterly
56/57 (2013/2014): 78-94.
2017
Princeton University
Ph.D., Near Eastern Studies
2011
Georgetown University
M.A., Arab Studies
2007
University of Michigan
B.A., Sociology and Political Science
