Description: A study of policing and security practices in the Gaza Strip during the period of Egyptian rule (1948-67), Police Encounters explores the complicated effects on Gazans of an extensive security apparatus guided by intersecting concerns about national interest, social propriety, and everyday illegality.
Review Quotes: "Ilana Feldman demonstrates how policing is not simply the repression of crime, but the cultivation of a security society. Gaza stands as an exceptional case--but one exceptionally important to illuminate the pre-history of the policing and security conflicts that drove many of the Arab Spring revolutions. Exciting, lucid, profound, and sophisticated, Police Encounters is a must-read."--Paul Amar "University of California, Santa Barbara, author of The Security Archipelago"