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This article focuses on Israel’s export of medical knowledge to African states during the 1960s. Its aims are twofold. First, to evaluate and discuss the place of medical assistance and health aid within scholarship, examining the relationships between Israel and African states. Second, it will show how a discussion of Israel’s medical and health projects are linked to the regional geopolitics that shape the movement of materials, individuals and knowledge between Africa and the Middle East. By exploring the themes of security and geopolitics, positionality towards Africa, and the movement of knowledge; resources and people this paper unravel how deployment of medical aid and development assistance of health were entwined into the effort to secure Israel’s regional geopolitical objectives to position itself in proximity to different polities in Africa and interchangeably confirmed and challenged Israel’s presence in the continent. Unpacking the place of health and medical knowledge, enables a better understanding of the reciprocal relations between medical knowledge, the spaces this knowledge shapes, and the sites where it is produced.
Author(s): Ram M, Yacobi H
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
Year: 2023
Volume: 50
Issue: 4
Pages: 825-844
Online publication date: 08/02/2022
Acceptance date: 26/01/2022
Date deposited: 19/05/2022
ISSN (print): 1353-0194
ISSN (electronic): 1469-3542
Publisher: Routledge
URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2022.2038085
DOI: 10.1080/13530194.2022.2038085
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