Author Lauren Banko

Lauren Banko is a historian and current postdoctoral fellow in Israel/Palestine Studies within the Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies department at the University of Manchester. She received her PhD in 2014 from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her research involves the Palestine Mandate and the creation, implementation and negotiations over Palestinian citizenship and nationality during the Mandate particularly for Arab emigrants. Lauren is also working on a larger project on the subversion of the colonial border in the interwar Middle East and in pre-1948 Palestine in particular. Her first monograph has just been published (July 2016) by Edinburgh University Press and is titled The Invention of Palestinian Citizenship, 1918-1947.