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Contributors Ali Abunimah is a freelance journalist and author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse. He has published and lectured widely on the question of Palestine and is co-founder of the electronic Intifada, an award-winning online publication about Palestine and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Susan Musarrat Akram is clinical professor of law at Boston University. she has extensive teaching and litigation experience in immigration, international human rights, and refugee law. she is former director of the Immigration Project at Public Counsel in Los angeles, the Political asylum/Immigration representation Project in Boston, and the american Council for nationalities service in riyadh, saudi arabia. she is editor (with Michael dumper, Michael Lynk, and Iain scobbie) of International Law and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Rights-Based Approach to Middle East Peace. Tamim al-Barghouti is a Palestinian-egyptian poet and political scientist, and author of Benign Nationalism: Egyptian Nation State Building Under Occupation and The Umma and the Dawla: The Nation-State and the Arab Middle East. He studied politics at Cairo University, the american University in Cairo, and Boston University, where he received his Phd. He has taught at the american University in Cairo, Georgetown University, and the Free University of Berlin, and was a fellow at the Berlin Institute for advanced studies’ europe in the Middle east program. He is currently the core team leader of the United nations’ esCWa project “The arab World in 2025.” al-Barghouti has also published six volumes of poetry in classical and spoken arabic, including Mijana (1999), Maqam Iraq (2005), fil-Quds (2008), and Ya Masr Hanet (2012). He wrote a weekly column in the Daily Star (Lebanon) between 2003 and 2004 and has written a biweekly column in the egyptian daily al-Shorouk since 2010. Rochelle Davis is associate professor of anthropology at the Center for Contemporary arab studies at Georgetown University’s edmund a. Walsh 272 contributors school of Foreign service. she is author of Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced, winner of the 2011 albert Hourani Book award from the Middle east studies association. Noura Erakat is a Palestinian human rights attorney, an abraham L. Freedman teaching Fellow at temple University, and adjunct professor of international human rights law at Georgetown University. she was a co-founder of arab Women arising for justice (aMWaj) and the U.s. Palestinian Community network (UsPCn). she has published in the Berkeley Law Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Law, Middle East Report, and other publications, and is a contributing editor of Jadaliyya.com. Leila Farsakh is associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and author of Palestinian Labor Migration to Israel: Labor, Land and Occupation. she has published widely on questions related to Palestinian labor, the Oslo process, and the one-state solution and has worked with international organizations including the Organisation for economic Co-operation and development (OeCd) and the Palestine economic Policy research Institute. As#ad Ghanem is senior lecturer in the school of Political science, University of Haifa. He is author of The Palestinian Arab Minority in Israel: A Political Study and The Palestinian Regime: A “Partial Democracy,” as well as Palestinian Politics after Arafat: The Predicament of a Failed National Movement, Ethnic Politics in Israel—The Margins and the Ashkinazi Centre, and (with Mohanad Mustafa) Palestinians in Israel: Indigenous Group Politics in the Jewish State. Michael C. Hudson is director of the Middle east Institute and professor of political science at the national University of singapore. He is a past president of the Middle east studies association and professor emeritus at Georgetown University, where he served as director of the Center for Contemporary arab studies for many years. He is author of Arab Politics: The Search for Legitimacy, The Palestinians: New Directions, and The Precarious Republic: Political Modernization in Lebanon, and editor of Middle East Dilemma: The Politics and Economics of Arab Integration. Islah Jad is associate professor and lecturer on gender issues and politics at the Women’s studies Institute and Cultural studies department of Birzeit 9.70.131] Project MUSE (2024-04-25 04:50 GMT) contributors 273 University. she has published widely on the role of women in politics, Palestinian women and the relationships among them, Islam, and nGOs. she is a consultant on gender issues to the United nations development Programme and coauthor of the Un’s arab development report on Women’s empowerment. Mimi Kirk is research director for the Middle...

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