Dr. Yuval Ben-Bassat
Department of Middle Eastern History
Tel: 04-8249778
Ofiice:04-8249778
Fax: 04-8249712
Email: yuval@research.haifa.ac.il
Higher Education
B.A. Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Geography, Cum Laude, The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, 1997-2000
M.A. Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, 2000-2002
Ph.D Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC), University of Chicago, 20022007
Dissertation:
Local Feuds or Premonitions of a Bi-National Conflict? A Reexamination of the Early Jewish-Arab
Encounter in Palestine, 1882-1903, English, 350 pp., October 2007.
Dissertation Committee:
Prof. Holly Shissler, (NELC) The University of Chicago (chair)
Prof. Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University
Dr. Ran Aaronsohn, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Academic Ranks
October 2007 - May 2013, Lecturer, Tenure Track, Department of Middle East History, U. of Haifa
Since May 2013, Senior Lecturer, Department of Middle East History, University of Haifa
Selected Scholarships, Awards, and Research Grants
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Rothschild Caesarea Grant, 2013-2014
Rector’s Grant, The University of Haifa, 2011
German-Israeli Fund (GIF) for Young Scientists, 2010-2011
Whiting Fellowship for Dissertation Final Year, University of Chicago, 2007
Lady Davis Fellowship, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2007
Fuerstenberg Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2001-2005
Division of Humanities and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2001-2004
Dean's Fellowship for Distinguished Students, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1999
Pharhi Fellowship for Distinguished Students, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1999
Classes Taught
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Historiographical Issues in the History of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, M.A., University
of Haifa, 2013
Immigration and Settlement in Late Ottoman Palestine, M.A., University of Haifa, 2013
Petitions in the Ottoman Empire and the Islamic World, M.A., University of Haifa, 2012-2013
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Historiographic Issues in the History of Modern Turkey, Seminar, M.A., University of Haifa,
2013
Reading Primary Sources on the History of the Modern Middle East, 2008-2009,
Undergraduate, University of Haifa
Computerized Methodology for Historians of the Middle East, 2008-2009, Undergraduate,
University of Haifa
Modern Turkey, 2007-2011, Pro Seminar, Undergraduate, University of Haifa
The Ottoman Empire, 2007-2011, Course, Undergraduate, University of Haifa
Islamic State, 2007-2008, Course, Undergraduate, University of Haifa
Ottoman Palestine 1517-1918, 2006, Course, Graduate and Undergraduate, University of
Chicago
Intermediate Modern Hebrew, 2001-2004, Course, Graduate and Undergraduate, University of
Chicago
Islamic Middle East 600-1150, 2005, Course, Graduate and Undergraduate, University of
Chicago (Teaching Assistant)
Women in the Middle East, Course, 2004, Graduate and Undergraduate, University of
Chicago (Teaching Assistant)
Publications
Ben-Bassat, Yuval. Petitioning the Sultan: Protests and Justice in Late Ottoman Palestine. London:
I.B.TAURIS, 2013 (350 pp. including tables and appendices), forthcoming
http://mideast.haifa.ac.il/staff/yuval-ben-basat/Petitioning-the-Sultan.pdf
EDITED BOOKS
Ben-Bassat, Yuval and Eyal Ginio (Eds.), Rethinking Late Ottoman Palestine: The
Young Turk Rule, 1908-1918. London: I.B. Tauris, 2011, 310 pp. (introduction by editors pages 1- 14).
http://mideast.haifa.ac.il/staff/yuval -ben-basat/bookcover.pdf
Reviewed by:
Yossi Ben-Arzi in Hamizrah Hehadash: The New East, 51(2012), pp. 218-224 [in Hebrew].
http://mideast.haifa.ac.il/staff/yuval-ben-basat/Ben_Artzi_Review_Young_Turks_in_Palestine.pdf
Dana Sajdi in Journal of Palestine Studies, 41/3 (Spring 2012), p. 122.
http://mideast.haifa.ac.il/staff/yuval-ben-basat/Review_Young_Turks_Edited_Book_JPS.pdf
Akın Sefer, "New Approaches to the History of Palestine: Relational History and the Ottoman Past,"
New Perspectives on Turkey, 48 (2013), pp. 129-140.
http://mideast.haifa.ac.il/staff/yuval-benbasat/New_Approaches_to_the_history_of_Palestine_NPT_Sefer.pdf
Articles
Ben-Bassat, Yuval. "On Crossroads: The Hebrew Press in Palestine in the Aftermath of the Young Turk
Revolution of 1908," Kesher: Journal of Media and Communications History in Israel and the Jewish
World, 37 (2008), pp. 71-81[in Hebrew].
Ben-Bassat, Yuval. "Proto-Zionist Arab Encounters in Late Nineteenth-Century Palestine:
Socioregional Dimensions," Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. XXXVIII/2 (Winter 2009), pp. 4263.
Ben-Bassat, Yuval. "Rethinking the Concept of Ottomanization: The Yishuv in the Aftermath of the
Young Turk Revolution of 1908,"Middle Eastern Studies, 45/3 (2009), pp. 461- 475.
Ben-Bassat, Yuval. "In Search of Justice: Petitions Sent from Palestine to Istanbul from the
1870," Turcica, 41 (2009), pp. 89-114.
Ben-Bassat, Yuval. "On Telegraph and Justice: Petitions from Jaffa and Gaza to the Ottoman Grand
Vizier in Istanbul during the Late Nineteenth Century," Hamizrah Hehadash: The New East, 49
(2010), pp. 30-52 [in Hebrew].
Ben-Bassat, Yuval. "Beyond National Historiographies: Reflections on the Ottoman Background of
Proto-Zionist – Arab Encounters in Fin de Siècle Nineteenth Century Palestine," in Ginio, Eyal
and Karl Kasr (eds.), Ottoman Legacies in the Contemporary Mediterranean: The Balkans and
the Middle East Compared. Jerusalem: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, European Forum at the
Hebrew University, 2013, pp. 93-118.
Ben-Bassat, Yuval. "Incidents in Rehovot in Petitions Sent by the Neighboring Rural Population to
Istanbul 1890-1913," Cathedra, 146 (2012), pp. 101-116 [in Hebrew]
See an article in Haaretz about this research http://www.haaretz.co.il/news/education/1.1856241
Ben-Bassat, Yuval. "Regional Cooperation among the Rural Population of Palestine’s Southern Coast
as Seen in Joint Petitions at the end of the 19th Century," New Perspectives on Turkey, 46 (2012),
pp. 213-238.
Ben-Bassat, Yuval and Fruma Zachs. "Manuals of Correspondence in 19th Century Greater
Syria: Between the Arzuhalci and the Advent of Popular Letter Writing," Turkish Historical Review,
IV/1 (Spring 2013), pp. 1-25.
Ben-Bassat, Yuval. "Rural Reactions to Zionist Activity in Palestine before and after the
Young-Turk Revolution of 1908 as Reflected in Petitions to Istanbul," Middle Eastern Studies, 49/3,
(2013), pp. 349-363.
Ben-Bassat, Yuval. "Conflicting Accounts of Proto-Zionist Colonization: The Case of Rehovot and
the Bedouins of Khirbat Duran: A Methodological Note," British International Journal of Middle
Eastern Studies 40/2 (2013), forthcoming
Book Reviews
Johann Büssow, Hamidian Palestine: Politics and Society in the District of Jerusalem, 18721908 (Leiden: Brill, 2011), Hamizrah Hahadash: The New East, 51 (2012), pp. 225-228 [in
Hebrew]
Research Topics
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The Ottoman Institution of Petitions
Palestine in the Second Half of the 19th Century
The Early Jewish-Arab Conflict
Ottoman Jewry
Zionism