Falestin Naili, historian associated with the Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo) in Amman, specializes in the social history of the late Ottoman and Mandate Palestine and Jordan and has focused much of her recent research on local governance and politics, particularly in Jerusalem. Through her interest in collective memory and oral history she often reaches present-time issues, including the politics of heritage and folklore. We focused on the history of the municipality of Jerusalem which was established in the late 19th century by the Ottomans and survived the First World War and the British Mandate but changed in nature and functions. Falestin told us how under the British a process of de-municipalization occurred as the British privileged other institutions de-facto taking away a political space where Palestinians and Zionists could have interacted. We also talked about the relationship between Jerusalem and its surrounding, in particular with the village of Artas which will be the focus of the upcoming by Falestin Naili La Palestine entre Patrimoine et Providence : régimes d’historicité et mémoire au village d’Artâs au XIX et XX siècles.

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