People
Samer Abdelnour
Samer Abdelnour is completing a PhD in Management at the London School of Economics. His doctoral research examines NGOs and humanitarian response, and the role of community and collective enterprise in postwar peace-building and development in Sudan. Since 2005 Samer has managed applied research projects across Sudan (Darfur, Southern Sudan, Blue Nile).
Rabab Abdulhadi
Rabab Abdulhadi is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, Associate Professor of Race and Resistance Studies, and Senior Scholar, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative at San Francisco State University. She is a long-time feminist activist and scholar who has contributed to the struggle for Palestinian self-determination and the well-being of Palestinian women. From 1982 to 1988, she was the Director of Political and International Relations at the Middle East Research Center in New York.
Oroub el-Abed
Oroub al-Abed is a PhD student in Development Studies at the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies. She is the author of Unprotected: Palestinians in Egypt since 1948 (Washington, DC and Ottowa, CA: Institute for Palestine Studies and the International Development Research Centre, 2009).
Mohammad Abu Zaineh
Mohammad Abu Zaineh is Adjunct Professor of Economics at Aix-Marseille Université School of Economics and École des hautes études en santé publique in Paris. He has worked with UNAIDS in Geneva, the Palestine Economic Policy Institute in Ramallah and the Department of Economics as well as the Institute of Community and Public Health at Birzeit University, Palestine. His main areas of research include measurement and explanation of socioeconomic inequality; public economics and policies (applied mainly to health and the health care sector) and economic development.
Bashir Abu-Manneh
Bashir Abu-Manneh is Assistant Professor of English at Barnard College, where he teaches global literature, Palestinian and Israeli literatures, Marxism, and Postcolonialism. He is affiliated with Barnard's programs in Africana Studies and Comparative Literature. He has written widely on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Ali Abunimah
Ali Abunimah is a writer and commentator on Middle East and Arab American affairs. He author of One Country, A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse (Metropolitan Books), and co-founder of The Electronic Intifada, an independent online publication with a global readership. He blogs at http://aliabunimah.posterous.com/
Maureen Ali
Maureen Ali, former cultural editor of The Middle East magazine, is a writer and film-maker based in Beirut. She is the editor of the book “A Lost Summer,” a compilation of blogs, texts and other writings about the 2006 Israeli War on Lebanon and wrote the texts for “Watercolors,” a campaigning book by photographer Mazen Jannoun about the state of the Lebanese coast. She is an active member of Inaash, Association for the Development of Palestinian Camps, Beirut.
Zarefa Ali
Zarefa Ali received her MA degree from Birzeit University in International Studies with a concentration in Forced Migration and Refugee Studies.
Naseer Aruri
Naseer Aruri is Chancellor Professor (Emeritus) of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. He is a founder, former chair, and now member-at-large of the Board of Directors of the Trans-Arab Research Institute (Boston), and a member of the Advisory Board of Directors of the International Institute for Criminal Investigations (The Hague). Dr. Aruri is the author of several books, including Dishonest Broker: the U.S. Role in Israel and Palestine (South End Press).
