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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