Anaheed Al-Hardan is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Howard University, where she teaches sociological theory, historical sociology, and courses on empire, colonialism, and anticolonial social theory. Her first book, Palestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities (Columbia University Press, 2016), examines Palestinian refugee communities’ countermemorial practices as a form of resistance to colonial dispossession. She is co-editor of Anticolonialism and Social Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2025) and is currently working on a book tracing Bandung-era knowledge production through transnational networks centered on West Asia and North Africa.
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Only a handful of research articles on Palestinian refugees in Syria could be found until a few years ago. After the uprooting of a significant part of the community following the bombardment and siege of Yarmouk Camp at the end of 2012, research and publications proliferated. Completed and in-process dissertations, scholarly articles, and research projects on the community are now numerous, especially in English. This sudden flood of research on and interest in Palestinians from Syria has not been limited to academia, but has also taken root in journalism and the policy world.
