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Tilde Rosmer

Assistant Professor
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Introduction

I obtained my PhD in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Oslo in 2008 with my thesis on “Mizrahiut and the Arab-Jewish divide: contemporary challenges to Israel's ethnic boundaries”, which investigates the ethno-religious identity and socio-political status of Israeli Jews who originate in Arab and Muslim countries, and of Palestinian citizens of Israel. I then continued my research on Palestinian citizens of Israel and have published several articles and in 2022 the first book in English on the Islamic Movement in Israel (published by University of Texas Press). I moved to Dubai, UAE, in 2011 and began teaching at Zayed University in 2015 and have been a full-time Assistant Professor since 2019, after which I began to conduct my research in the UAE.

Research and Professional Activities

Research interests:

My research has focused on collective identity formation and religio-political and cultural movements by and for Israeli Jews from the Middle East and North Africa and Palestinian citizens of Israel. Notably I have researched the Sephardic Movement Shas, the secular ethnic movement The Eastern Democratic representing Mizrahi (Middle Eastern and North African Jews), and the Islamic Movement in Israel. I utilize an ethnographic approach, and I have lived in Israel and in the occupied West Bank for several years while conducting fieldwork.

Currently my research is in the emerging field of Environmental Humanities, and I focus on awareness and knowledge of sustainability among Emirati youth, and on environmental education and citizenship in the UAE. I am also conducting research on inclusion and diversity in the UAE.

Current Projects:

I am the PI on a Zayed University RIF grant with Dr Magdalena Karolak to investigate “The making of environmental citizenship: A comparative study of the Norwegian and Emirati educational systems”.

I am also conducting resesarch on the history and approach to inclusion and diveristy in the UAE, and on the sustainble profile and presentation of new residental projects in the UAE.

Keywords:

Middle East, history, ethnography, Islam, Judaism, Israel, Palestine, religious-political movements, Islamic movement, sustainability, environmental humanities, UAE, inclusion and diversity.

Teaching Areas

I teach undergraduate courses in history, anthropology, cultural studies, and sustainability: Popular Cultures; Critical Thinking; History of the Modern Middle East; History of the UAE; and Cities: Culture, Space, Sustainability.

Selected publications:

Alzeer, G and T. Rosmer (2023) “Emirate Youth’s Perceptions of Green Branding” in Branding the Middle East,Gruyter, Berlin & Boston Studies on Modern Orient Series, ed. Steffen Wippel.

Rosmer, T (2022). The Islamic Movement in Israel. University Texas Press.

Rosmer, T (2017) Agents of Change: How Islamist Women Activists in Israel Are Challenging the Status Quo. Die Welt des Islams, 57 (2017) 360-385.

Rosmer, T (2015) “Raising the Green Banner on Campus: The Rise of Islamist Student Politics in Israel” in Journal of Palestine Studies, 45:1, Autumn, pp. 24 -42, DOI: 10.1525/jps.2015.45.1.24.

Rosmer, T (2014) “Israel’s Middle Eastern Jewish Intellectuals: Identity and Discourse” in The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 41:1, 62-78.

Podcasts and talks on the book The Islamic Movement in Israel available online:

Oct. 2022:       Book talk on The Islamic Movement in Israel at co-organized at the Israel Studies and St Anthony's Middle East Centre, University of Oxford:https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/tilde-rosmer-islamic-movement-israel

May 2022:      Book talk on The Islamic Movement in Israel at the Nazarian Center for Israel Studies at University of California, Los Angles:https://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/15623