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The Vigilant Eyes of the Sovereign
Author: Shukri Arraf
Control, Survelienace, Detention and Policing Regimes from the Ottoman Reforms to Tegart Colonial Plan.
“The Vigilant Eyes of the Sovereign: The Palestine Police between the Ottoman Reforms and Tegart’s Colonial Plan,” by Palestinian historian and geographer Dr. Shukri Arraf, covers the history and architecture of the police stations and castles in Palestine, and its relationship to Palestinian revolutions and the British politicians who contributed to the formation and the modernization of surveillance systems and detention centers. It examines in detail Tegart’s plan, the largest colonial infrastructure project in Palestine, by documenting the police stations, their organizational structures and its geographical distribution throughout Palestine
Our Authors
Diala Khasawneh
Farhat Muhawwi
Iyad Issa
Jacques Barlet
Jamal Barghout
Jihad Awwad
Khaldun Bshara
Lana Joudeh
Lena Sobeh
Mohammad Jaradat
Mohannad Hadid
Nazmi Al Jubeh
Nihad Al Moghani
Rana Anani
RIWAQ Staff
Sahar Qawasmi
Sharif Sharif
Shukri Arraf
Suad Amiry
The daily life of the Palestinian highlands has changed a great deal since the turn of the 20th century.
--Suad Amiry and Vera Tamari. The Palestinian Village Home, backcover.
The best ten years of my professional life and my friendship with Riwaq team…Really!!!
—Jacques BARLET, 2021
Upgrading the living environment for those who reside in historic buildings and centers is at the core of RIWAQ's principles and design choices.
--Khaldun Bshara, Tashgheel, p. 49.
Almost every member of the community participated in the process of building a peasant house. Though the construction of the house was seen primerly as a man's task, women and children gave a helping hand
--Suad Amiry, Peasant Architecture in Palestine, p. 144.
