Stephen Sheehi

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Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine co-authored with Dr. Lara Sheehi, examines how psychoanalysis is itself used by mental health practitioners throughout Palestine to navigate not only Zionist settler colonialism and Israeli-Apartheid, but also to imagine new possibilities for Palestinian subjectivity and liberation. The book explores how psychoanalysis is re-tooled and deployed by indigenous clinicians within the context of Palestinian life and resistance to provide a clinical and theoretical framework for meaning making of the experiences of Palestinians, who live, die, and resist under the conditions of Zionist settler colonialism, military occupation and Apartheid. Psychoanalysis Under Occupation won the 2022 Palestine Book Award.

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Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims (Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2011) is among the first books to comprehensively examine the rise of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab sentiments in the United States. Sheehi shows how Islamophobia is an ideological and fluid political formation that transforms anti-Arab racism into a larger political program that serves US empire abroad as well as is used to regulate dissent domestically. (The book has been translated into Arabic as al-Islamufobia: al-Hamlah al-idiulujiyah dud al-Muslimin translation by Fatimah Nasr (Cairo: Dar al-Sutour, 2012).

His first book, Foundations of Modern Arab Identity (University of Florida, 2004) examines how intellectuals of the “Arab Renaissance” or al-nahdah al-`arabiyah articulated new forms of Arab subjectivity within the context of epistemological shifts that would constitute Arab modernity. Sheehi tracks, what now would be called, the coloniality of knowledge structured into Arab modernity. Prof. Sheehi’s current projects also include Intimacies of Guerillas: Partisans, Photography and Revolutionary Desires (in progress) and The People’s History of the Maronites (in progress).

Most recently, Prof. Sheehi has co-edited with Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian State Violence, Settler-Colonialism, and Abolition., special edited issue of Journal of State Crime (Vol. 12 (2), 2024.

He is also a board member of the USA-Palestine Mental Health Network, Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World, Milestones: Commentary on the Islamic World, and Regards – Revue des arts du spectacle.