“…In Palestine, universities offering training in the social sciences are concentrated in the occupied territories and particularly on the Ramallah-Jerusalem axis (Romani, 2003). No university has an anthropology department, and anthropologists often teach sociology (Romani, 2010) Canaan and his circle (Nashef, 2002;Tamari, 2008) The Israeli military occupation, the first and second intifadas, and the censorship exercised by the Israelis and even the Palestinian Authority make it difficult to do research and sometimes to maintain a critical approach that is nevertheless considered proper in the social sciences (al-Sakka, 2018(al-Sakka, , 2020Hammami & Tamari, 1997;Romani, 2010). The proliferation of private research centres and the scarce resources available to universities combined with the very important teaching load of teachers (A. al-Sakka, personal communication, August 16, 2021) mean that research, practised mainly on the mandate of international organisations, is uncritical and often unpublished (Tamari, 1994).…”