Dr Issam Nassar ( ar, عصام نصار), is a

Palestinian Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

historian of

photography Photography is the visual art, art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It i ...

in Palestine and the

Middle East The Middle East ( ar, الشرق الأوسط, ISO 233: ) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Province), East Thrace (Europ ...

.Issam Nassar
Faculty Bio He is professor of History at

Illinois State University Illinois State University (ISU) is a public university in Normal, Illinois. Founded in 1857 as Illinois State Normal University, it is the oldest public university in Illinois. The university emphasizes teaching and is recognized as one of th ...

and a research fellow at the

Institute for Palestine Studies The Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS) is the oldest independent nonprofit public service research institute in the Arab world. It was established and incorporated in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1963 and has since served as a model for other such inst ...

. He taught at the

University of California The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Fran ...

at Berkeley in 2006; Bradley University in 2003–2006 and al-Quds University in 1998–2003. Nassar is the co-editor of ''

Jerusalem Quarterly The Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS) is the oldest independent nonprofit public service research institute in the Arab world. It was established and incorporated in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1963 and has since served as a model for other such inst ...

'' ( ar, Hawliyat al-Quds) and author of a number of books and articles, among them ''Laqatat Mughayirah'' (''Different Snapshots: The History of Early Local Photography in Palestine'').

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Illinois State University Professor, Issam Nassar "discusses" Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Scholars for Peace in the Middle East
''Jerusalem Quarterly'' official website
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people University of California, Berkeley faculty Historians of the Middle East Newspaper editors Illinois State University faculty Birzeit University alumni University of Cincinnati alumni Historians of photography 20th-century Palestinian historians 21st-century Palestinian historians {{Palestine-historian-stub