| Title | The Gaza Strip, Palestine |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | Cultivating an Ancient Soil: Sub-dune Histories and Ecologies |
| Contributor | Dotan Halevy (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.63308/63897247289532.ess09 |
| Landing page | https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2025/11/05/graspingsoil/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Dotan Halevy |
| Publisher | The White Horse Press |
| Published on | 2026-03-01 |
| Page range | pp. 193–217 |
| Print length | 25 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
| Media | 7 illustrations |
Dotan Halevy is an environmental historian of the modern Middle East and a senior lecturer at the department of Middle Eastern and African history at Tel Aviv University. His current research project, Settling Sands: Commodification, Displacement, and the Modern Coastline 1900–1970, explores how the Eastern Mediterranean coastal plain, sparsely populated for centuries, emerged in the modern period as an aggressive frontier of economic and political expansion.