Daniel Monterescu is Professor of Urban Anthropology and Food Studies at the Central European University, Vienna. He is the author of Jaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine (Indiana University Press, 2015), coauthor of Twilight Nationalism: Politics of Existence at Life's Edge (Stanford University Press, 2018) and coeditor of Jewish Revival Inside Out (Wayne State University Press, 2022) and Food and Settler Colonialism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). He is the PI of the Gerda Henkel Stiftung grant on “Lost Cities: The Social Life of Ruins in Israel/Palestine, 1882 to the Present” and is currently completing a book manuscript on Food and Borders.