Hazem Jamjoum is a Palestinian curator, educator and an editor with the recently-established publishing house Safarjal Press. His translation of Ghassan Kanafani’s The Revolution of 1936-1939 in Palestine was published by 1804 Press in 2023, and his translation of Maya Abu al-Hayyat’s No One Knows their Blood Type was released by the CSU Poetry Center in October 2024.
Jamjoum is curator of the British Library’s early twentieth century audio recordings of relevance to Arab and Gulf History. His work aims at digitizing, cataloguing and contextualizing this part of Arab communities’ audio heritage. He has also co-lead a project aimed at identifying similar at-risk audiovisual collections in the region with the longer term aim of fostering such preservation and curatorial work on a wider scale. His doctoral research in history at NYU traces the connections between the production of “Arabic music” as a concept and a commodity, and the implications of these production processes on supra-state collective identifications, pan-Arabism in particular.
Jamjoum will be teaching an online class through the Newberry Library titled “Palestine’s Musical History,” on Saturdays, starting June 14-July 12, 2025 from 12:30-2pm.
You can read Jamjoum’s academic articles on Academia.edu.
Articles
- Liberation, Wonder, and the ‘Magic of the World’: Basel al-Araj’s I Have Found My Answers, Hazem Jamjoum. Liberated Texts. April 5, 2021
- Interview: Jordan revoking citizenship from Palestinian refugees, Hazem Jamjoum. The Electronic Intifada 27 February 2011
- Interview: Palestine’s red lines of struggle, Hazem Jamjoum. The Electronic Intifada 7 October 2010
- Challenging the Jewish National Fund, Hazem Jamjoum. The Electronic Intifada 20 July 2010
- Not an Analogy: Israel and the Crime of Apartheid, Hazem Jamjoum. May 31, 2009
- Not an analogy: Israel and the crime of apartheid, Hazem Jamjoum. The Electronic Intifada 3 April 2009
- Ramallah commemorates the ongoing Nakba, Hazem Jamjoum. The Electronic Intifada 28 May 2008
Music
- Recording of the week: ‘Wayn tkhallīnī’ by Iraq’s Rashīd al-Qundarjī, Hazem Jamjoum. Sound and vision blog, The British Library. 09 January 2023
- Arabic music record sleeves and what they can tell us, Hazem Jamjoum. Sound and vision blog, The British Library. 18 June 2020
- Beginnings: Arabic music in the ‘Ezra Hakkāk and Emile Cohen Collection, Hazem Jamjoum. Sound and vision blog, The British Library. 17 September 2019
Podcasts
- Healthy Humans For Social Change with Hazem Jamjoum, The Third Way, 2024
- Hazem Jamjoum – History of Palestine, Hazem Jamjoum. The Anti-Imperialist Archive, October 10. 2023
Videos
- Hazem Jamjoum on Palestinian solidarity, Jewish Voice for Labour, May 13, 2025
- Hazem Jamjoum | Critical Histories | Talking about (the Silencing of) Palestine Conference, 2025
- Re-reading Ghassan Kanafani in the Struggle Against Genocide | Hazem Jamjoum, December 2, 2024.
- Teach-in on Palestine with Hazam Jamjoum, Global Justice Now, 2024
- We Are All Palestinians! – Hazem Jamjoum, From Friends of Palestine, 2024
- Hazem Jamjoum in Cardiff, Bath Friends of Palestine, 2024
- Hazem Jamjoum on Israel and the Arab World, UCL SJP, 2021
- Hazem Jamjoum | Justice in Palestine Conference | Apartheid as its Lived Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), November 30, 2018
- 016 Online Majlis: Hazem Jamjoum 23rd May 2020
