Tamir Sorek

Tamir Sorek is a Liberal Arts Professor of Middle East history at Penn State University. He studies culture as a field of conflict and resistance and his research has highlighted the political role of sports, poetry, and collective memory. He is the author of The Optimist: A Social Biography of Tawfiq Zayyad (Stanford University Press 2020), Palestinian Commemoration in Israel: Calendar, Monuments, and Martyrs (Stanford University Press, 2015), Arab Soccer in a Jewish State: The Integrative Enclave (Cambridge University Press, 2007), editor of Culture and Conflict in Palestine/Israel (Routledge, 2022) and coeditor of Sport, Politics and Society in the Middle East (Oxford University Press, 2019). Sorek was the founding editor of the journal Palestine/Israel Review.