Dr. Roy Marom

I am social historian and historical geographer of Palestinian’s rural landscapes. I have completed my PhD at the University of Haifa (2022). Previously, I served as a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley, as a Dan David Fellow at Tel Aviv University and as the Ernest S. Frerichs Annual Professor at The W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem.

In 2014, I initiated the Palestinian Rural History Project (PRHP) with the aim of mitigating the inevitable, but irreparable loss, of important information concerning the Palestinian countryside. So far, I have conducted over 1,500 oral history interviews concerning 800 Palestinian communities, or about 70% of inhabited sites in Mandatory Palestine. Through the PRHP, I specialized in the interdisciplinary, and often collaborative exploration, of rural Palestine at the intersection of socio-cultural history, geography, archaeology and ethnography from the Mamluk period until 1948.

My current postdoctoral project reassesses early intercommunal interactions in Palestine’s Jewish colonies, the moshavot (1878-1914), from local and transnational relational perspectives, highlighting encounters beyond those recorded in textbook nationalist historiographies. This project is part of my long-term effort to re-examine and re-contextualize the study of Palestine’s rural history and heritage using local, Arabic and Ottoman Turkish sources, in collaboration with fellow historians, archaeologists, geographers, sociologists, and researchers from cultural studies. My articles have recently figured in the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Levant, Agricultural History, and the Journal of Historical Geography, among other peer-reviewed journals.

Publications:

Accepted R. Marom and I. Taxel, “Mamluk Yibna: Baybars’ Rural Legacy,” Mamlūk Studies Review 29 (2026).

Accepted R. Marom, J. Roskin and I. Taxel, “A Line in the Sand: The development of 19th–20th Century Sand/Dune Agriculture at Rimāl Yibnā on the South-eastern Mediterranean Coast,” Agricultural History 99.3 (2025).

Accepted R. Marom, Y. Tepper and M. J. Adams, “The Mosque of Ibrahim: A 10th-Century Shrine at Al-Lajjun,” Journal of Islamic Archaeology (2024).

2024 Marom, R., “‘Beit Loya: Historicising Marginal Sites in Late Islamic Rural Palestine,” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 156.4 (December 2024): 388-392.

2024 A. Ayalon and R. Marom, “Arab-Jewish Neighbors in Rural Mandatory Palestine: The Case of Khirbat ᶜAzzun – Raᶜanana,” Middle Eastern Studies.

2024 Marom, R. and Taxel, I., “Ḥamāma: The Palestinian Countryside in Bloom (1750–1948),” Journal of Islamic Archaeology 11.1 (2024): 83-111.

2024 Marom, R., “The Palestinian Rural Notables’ Class in Ascendency: The Hannun Family of Tulkarm (Palestine),” Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies 23.1 (April 2024): 88-107.

2024 Marom, R., “Transnational Migrations from Eastern Europe to Ottoman Palestine and the Glocal Origins of the Zionist-Arab Conflict,” Middle Eastern Studies 60.2 (2024): 250-270.

2024 Marom, R., Tepper, Y., and Adams, M.J., “Al-Lajjun: A Social and Geographic Account of a Palestinian Village During the British Mandate Period,” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 0 (2024):1-27.

2023 Marom, R. and Taxel, I., “Ḥamāma: The Historical Geography of Settlement Continuity and Change in Majdal ‘Asqalan’s Hinterland, 1270—1750 CE,” Journal of Historical Geography 82 (2023): 49-65.

2023 Marom, R. and Zadok, R., “Early-Ottoman Palestinian Toponymy: A Linguistic Analysis of the (Micro-)toponyms in Haseki Sultan’s Endowment Deed (1552),” Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 139.2 (2023): 258-289.

2023 Marom, R., Tepper, Y., and Adams, M.J., “Lajjun: Forgotten Provincial Capital in Ottoman Palestine,” Levant 55.2 (2023): 218-241.

2023 Marom, R., “The Abu Hameds of Mulabbis: An Oral History of a Palestinian Village Depopulated in the Late Ottoman Period,” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 50.1 (2023): 87-106.

2022 Marom, R., “The Cave of the Patriarchs (al-Haram al-Ibrahimi) in Muslim Tradition,” In the Highlands’ Depth 12 (2022): 55-81. [in Hebrew, English abstract]

2022 Marom, R., “Jindās: A History of Lydda’s Rural Hinterland in the 15th to the 20th Centuries CE,” Lod, Lydda, Diospolis 1 (2022): 1-31.

2020 Marom, R., “RAF Ein-Shemer: Forgotten Case of Jewish and Arab Work in a British Army Camp in Palestine during the Second World War,” War & Society 39.3 (2020): 189-209.

2019 Marom, R., “A Short History of Mulabbis (Petah Tikva, Israel),” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 151.2 (2019): 134-145.

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