Yair Wallach

Yair Wallach is the Pears Israeli Studies Lecturer at SOAS. Formerly he was a Research Associate with Conflict in Cities at the University of Cambridge, where he researched 'shared space' in Jerusalem and other divided cities. His research interests are in the Palestine-Israel conflict, and the intersection between ideas and material culture in the everyday experience of modernity.

Sheikh Jarrah: The extremes of 'sharing space' in Jerusalem

Photo-essay: Sharing space in divided cities can take many shapes: from tense encounters and confrontations, to active cooperation and social relations. Here Yair Wallach of the Conflict in Cities and the Contested State research group examines Sheikh Jarrah, one of the flashpoints of confrontatio

By Yair Wallach

/ 14 Feb 2013