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.
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.
Khalil Nakhleh
Khalil Nakhleh is a Palestinian anthropologist from the Galilee, Israel/Palestine, with a Ph.D. from Indiana University, US. His main academic and applied preoccupations focused on how to transform Palestinian society and people from an occupied, colonized, and fragmented society to a liberated, productive, free, and self-generating society, not dependent on external financial aid. Dr. Nakhleh has authored a number of academic books and articles on Palestinian society, development, NGOs, and education, in English and Arabic. The Red Sea Press published his latest book, Globalized Palestine: The National Sell-out of a Homeland, in 2012. He may be reached at [email protected].
Khaled Elgindy
Khaled Elgindy is a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, where he also directs MEI’s Program on Palestine and Israeli-Palestinian Affairs. He is the author of the newly-released book, Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump, published by Brookings Institution Press in April 2019.
Esther Rappaport
Dr. Esther Rappaport is a clinical psychologist practicing independently in Tel Aviv. She teaches and writes on critical psychology, psychoanalytic theory, culture and gender. She is an anti-Occupation activist with the Coalition of Women for Peace (CWP) and a member of its board, as well as an activist with Psychoactive – Mental Health Professionals for Human Rights. CWP is a Tel Aviv-based feminist organization that resists the Israeli Occupation and colonial policies in the region and supports the Palestinian right of return. The organization has conducted in-depth research into the Occupation economy (the Who Profits project) and promotes economic activism as a tool of nonviolent resistance.
Diala Shamas
Diala Shamas is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), where she works on challenging government and law enforcement abuses perpetrated under the guise of national security, both in the US and abroad. Prior to joining CCR, Diala was a clinical supervising attorney and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School, and a senior staff attorney supervising the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility (CLEAR) project at CUNY School of Law.
Cecilie Surasky
Cecilie Surasky is the former 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. She is the editor of Muzzlewatch, JVP’s acclaimed blog documenting efforts to silence open debate about Israel-Palestine policy.
Ben White
Ben White is a journalist, analyst and author, whose articles on Palestine and Israel have been published by Al Jazeera, The Independent’s Independent Voices, Middle East Monitor, Newsweek Middle East, The Guardian’s Comment is free, Middle East Eye, The National, Electronic Intifada, and others. His books include Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner’s Guide, Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy, and The 2014 Gaza War: 21 Questions & Answers. Ben has worked as a researcher for the Journal of Palestine Studies, and currently does editing work for the Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies. He has appeared as an analyst on Al Jazeera English, TRT World, and Islam Channel.
