Mostafa Hussein

Mostafa Hussein, assistant professor of Jewish-Muslim studies at the University of Michigan and author of Hebrew Orientalism. He explains how Hebrew thinkers adopted and adapted Arabo-Islamic culture to shape Zionist aims. Short scenes cover language revival, landscape and place-naming, mixed identities of native and immigrant Jews, and the tangled politics of admiration, hierarchy, and coexistence in late Ottoman and British Palestine.

Mostafa Hussein, assistant professor of Jewish–Muslim studies, explores how Hebrew thinkers engaged with Arabo-Islamic culture in late Ottoman and British Palestine. He highlights conscious appropriation of Arabic language and local knowledge, profiles mixed Sephardi and Ashkenazi figures, and tracks how scholarly practices shaped claims to the land and modern Hebrew identity.

Mostafa Hussein, assistant professor of Jewish–Muslim studies at the University of Michigan, explores Hebrew Orientalism and Jewish engagement with Arabo-Islamic culture in late Ottoman and British Palestine. He discusses bilingual intellectuals, Arabic’s role in reviving Hebrew, contested place-names and landscape claims, shifting politics under British rule, and the ambivalent blend of admiration and hierarchy in cultural exchange.