“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.



No. of pages: 362

Shukri Arraf

Dr. Shukri Arraf is a Palestinian researcher and lecturer, born on January 20, 1931 in Mi'lia, in the Upper Galilee of Palestine. He obtained his doctorate in Middle East History in 1985. Arraf authored more than fifty books that focus on the Arab roots in Palestine including family, social, heritage, village, endowment, and real estate. His publications include “The Vigilant Eyes of the Sultan: Police in Palestine”, “Al Saraya”, “The Caravanserais of Palestine”, “Land, Man and Effort” , “The sources of the Palestinian economy from the earliest periods to the year 1948”... and many others.

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