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Kareem Rabie is Associate Professor of Anthropology at The University of Illinois, Chicago. His work focuses on privatization, urban development, and the state-building project in the West Bank.

Previously he was Assistant Professor of Anthropology at American University in Washington, DC; visiting fellow at CUNY’s Center for Place, Culture, and Politics and Committee on Globalization and Social Change; Harper-Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago; and Marie Curie Fellow/Senior Researcher at the University of Oxford Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society.

His work on Palestine and China has been supported by the American Council on Learned Societies, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Graham Foundation for Advancement in the Fine Arts, COMPAS, The University of Chicago Beijing Center, and the UIC Institute for the Humanities.


His first book, Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invited came out in 2021 from Duke University Press.

You can find some recent writing here.

Here is a list of upcoming talks and events. If you are interested in doing an event or having Kareem come to your class, please reach out!

Here are some press clippings and recorded talks.

Kareem’s current research focuses on the new human geographies of Palestine/China trade.


You can order the book from Duke (or, outside of North America, from CAP) for 30% off with code E21RABIE.

It is also available at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore, Pilsen Community Books, Bookshop.org, Amazon, and elsewhere books are sold.


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PALESTINE/CHINA


Building on preliminary fieldwork undertaken in 2015 and 2017, Kareem’s curent writing focuses on the complex social, economic, and imaginative geographies between the West Bank and China. This work is centered on the circulation in between, and the routes and travels of people, capital, and commodities.