Ismat Quzmar
Ismat Quzmar is an economic researcher based in Ramallah, Palestine. He is currently the External Relations Officer at the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS) and previously worked with the Ministry of National Economy, the Palestinian Network of Non-Governmental Organizations (PNGO), and the Advancement Department of Birzeit University. Ismat holds a master’s degree in comparative […]
Salman Al-Zurai’i
Salman Al-Zurai’i is a researcher and policy analyst based in Gaza. He holds a BA in political science from Al-Azhar University in Gaza and currently works as a researcher and a human rights activist with the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor. Al-Zurai’i previously worked as an assistant researcher and policy analyst at the Studies Unit at […]
Mohammed Al-Hafi
Mohammed Al-Hafi is a Palestinian academic and researcher of international politics based in Gaza. He is the director of the Studies Unit at the Palestinian Department of Labor and Planning. He earned his PhD in political philosophy from Alexandria University in 2013 and has published numerous studies and research papers.
Laila Al-Arian
Laila Al-Arian is an award-winning journalist, filmmaker, and executive producer of the Al Jazeera English documentary series Fault Lines. She is also the co-author of “Collateral Damage: America’s War Against Iraqi Civilians.”
Abdaljawad Omar
Abdaljawad Omar is a writer and lecturer based in Ramallah, Palestine. He is currently teaching in the Philosophy and Cultural Studies Department at Birzeit University.
Vivien Sansour
Vivien Sansour is a writer, producer, and photographer living in Beit Jala. She has worked with farmers in the field for over six years, capturing their stories for the wider world. She is currently a doctoral candidate for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at North Carolina State University.
Sarah Kanbar
Sarah Kanbar earned her J.D. in 2016 from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, with a concentration in international legal studies. While at law school, Sarah interned at the California Office of Legislative Counsel and the Federal Public Defender’s Office. She received her B.A. in history from the University of California, Berkeley, focusing on the relationship between the United States and the Middle East. Sarah previously published “Rooted in Our Homeland: The Construction of Syrian American Identity” in American Multicultural Studies (Sage, 2012) and articles in Muftah and Kalimat Magazine.
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.
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. After the July 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon, he created a post-war development program, Land and People, to aid in livelihood recovery. He blogs at “Land and People” and tweets at @ramizurayk.
