Thayer Hastings is a Changemaker Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of International Service at American University. He holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the CUNY Graduate Center and an MA from Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. His research is informed by a commitment to community-led initiatives and decolonizing methodologies, and he has previously worked with the American Friends Service Committee and the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice.
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Oral history has a long precedent in Arab and Palestinian culture that stems from a broader oral tradition.
