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” (“Filasṭīnī”) 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
