Osama Risheq
Osama Risheq has served as a Legal Supervisor at Al-Quds Human Rights Clinic in Al-Quds University since 2009. He holds a BA in Public Law from Mohammad I University in Morocco, and an L.L.M in International Law with International Relations from Kent University in the UK. Currently, Risheq is a PhD candidate in International Criminal Law and Transitional Justice at Vrije University, Amsterdam. He has extensive research and fieldwork experience in international law, human rights, forcible displacement, prisoners’ rights, and the right to education.
Nell Gabiam
Nell Gabiam is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Political Science at Iowa State University. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology in 2008 from the University of California, Berkeley. From 2004 to 2006, she conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the Palestinian Refugee Camps of Ein el Tal, Neirab, and Yarmouk in Syria. More recently she has conducted fieldwork in Lebanon, Jordan,Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, France, and Sweden on Palestinians who have been displaced by the ongoing war in Syria.
Nadya Tannous
Nadya Tannous was Al-Shabaka’s summer 2021 visiting US policy fellow. She is a passionate community organizer, born and raised in the Bay Area (Ohlone Territory). In her work, she focuses on political education, movement relationship building, anti-militarism, and returning land to the people and people to the land. Nadya holds an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies from the University of Oxford and a BA in Anthropology and Global Information and Social Enterprise Studies from UC Santa Cruz.
Nada Elia
Nada Elia teaches ethnic and cultural Studies at Western Washington University. She is the author of Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine (Pluto, 2023), and has contributed chapters to numerous anthologies, including The Case for Sanctions Against Israel (Haymarket, 2020).
Mouin Rabbani
Mouni Rabbani is an independent writer and analyst specializing in Palestinian affairs and the Arab-Israeli conflict. He is a senior fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies and is a Contributing Editor to the Middle East Report. His articles have also appeared in The National and he has provided comments for The New York Times.
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. Cooper), PalgraveMacmillan, 2011. Mandy received her PhD from the London School of Economics and was a founder member of the journal Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory.
Maren Mantovani
Al-Shabaka Guest Author Maren Mantovani is the international relations coordinator for the Stop the Wall Campaign and the international outreach coordinator for the Land Defense Coalition, a network of Palestinian social movements. She serves on the secretariat of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) National Committee, the umbrella organization promoting the call for BDS. She has published several studies on Israeli military relations and corporate complicity.
Layla Kattermann
Layla Kattermann is the Monitor Team Manager at the European Legal Support Center (ELSC). Layla studied International Studies at Leiden University and specialized in the region of the Middle East, where she focused on the politics of law, the media discourse on Palestine and Israeli disinformation. She is also a co-founder of the Student Coalition for Palestine in the Netherlands.
Lamees Farraj
Lamees Farraj is a researcher in economic and developmental policies. She received her MA in economics from Birzeit University in 2016, and her BA in economics from Birzeit University in 2010.
