Guest Authors
Rosemary Sayigh
Rosemary Sayigh is the author of Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries (1979); Too Many Enemies: the Palestinian Experience in Lebanon (1994); Voices: Palestinian Women Narrate Displacement. She currently teaches oral history and anthropology at the Center for Arab and Middle East Studies, AUB.
Cecilie Surasky
Cecilie Surasky is the Deputy Director of Jewish Voice for Peace, a national grassroots organization dedicated to promoting a US foreign policy in the Middle East based on peace, democracy, human rights and respect for international law. A former newspaper columnist, talk radio host and communications consultant, Cecilie's analyses of Israel-Palestine politics have appeared in numerous media outlets around the world. Cecilie graduated from Brown University with a BA in Religious Studies with special honors in Modern Culture and Media.
Mandy Turner
Mandy Turner is the director of the Kenyon Institute (Council for British Research in the Levant) in East Jerusalem. She works on the political economy of development in war-torn societies with a country focus on the occupied Palestinian territory. She is co-editor of The Palestinian People and the Political Economy of De-development: Contesting Colonization, Negating Neoliberalism (with O. Shweiki), Routledge, 2013 (forthcoming), and co-editor of Whose Peace? Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding (with M. Pugh and N.
Jeremy Wildeman
Jeremy Wildeman (B.A. Saskatchewan, M.A. McMaster) is a PhD candidate in the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, where he is conducting research into the effects of foreign aid on Palestinians. Previously he co-founded and managed the internationally registered, West Bank-based charity for Palestinian youth "Project Hope" (www.projecthope.ps). He is a committee member for the International Relations Blog "ThinkIR" (www.thinkir.co.uk).'
Rami Zurayk
Rami Zurayk is professor of Ecosystem Management in the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences at the American University of Beirut (AUB), and author of Food, Farming and Freedom: Sowing the Arab Spring, and War Diary: Lebanon 2006, among other titles. He is a longtime activist for political and social justice. Zurayk's current research focuses on the relationship between landscapes and livelihoods, on food politics, and on local food systems.
