Ayman Qwaider
Ayman Qwaider is an international education consultant with extensive experience across the MENA region, and a particular focus on Palestine. He holds an MA in Peace, Conflict, and Development Studies and has worked extensively in community-based education in post-conflict and protracted crisis contexts. Ayman has collaborated closely with Palestinian learners, teachers, and communities across Gaza and refugee settings, […]
Abdalrahman Kittana
Dr. Abdalrahman Kittana is a Palestinian architect and researcher, currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Tampere University, Finland, and an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Birzeit University. He holds a PhD in Architecture from KU Leuven, an MSc in Architectural regeneration from Oxford Brookes University and a BSc in Architectural Engineering from Birzeit University. Dr. Kittana […]
Maha Abdallah
Maha Abdallah is a graduate teaching assistant and a PhD researcher in the Faculty of Law, University of Antwerp. Her research investigates Zionism, settler colonialism, and the genocide of the Palestinian people. She has authored and co-authored academic papers, reports, and articles on international law and human rights, including in relation to business and human rights in occupied […]
Karim Mattar
Karim Mattar is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. A descendant of survivors of the Palestinian Nakba of 1948, he works at the intersection of Palestine studies, the humanities, and higher education. He is currently writing two books: “The Ethics of Affiliation: Palestine and the Future of Humanism” and “Reflections […]
Malaka Shwaikh
Malaka Shwaikh is an associate lecturer at the University of St Andrews, where she teaches and researches peacebuilding with decolonial and intersectional perspectives. She has over six years of experience in academic and consultancy roles, working at the intersection of prison studies, hunger strikes, peacebuilding, and resilience. Her mission is to challenge the dominant narratives […]
Shahd Hammouri
Shahd Hammouri is a lecturer in International Law and Legal Theory at the University of Kent and Senior Legal Consultant at Law for Palestine. She is the author of the forthcoming Corporate War Profiteering and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2026). Shahid’s work examines public and international economic law from a critical and decolonial perspective. […]
Weeam Hammoudeh
Dr. Weeam Hammoudeh is Assistant Professor at Birzeit University’s Institute of Community and Public Health. She holds a PhD and MA in Sociology from Brown University, and an MPH in Community and Public Health from Birzeit University. Her work focuses on understanding how political and social transformations impact health, psychosocial wellbeing, health and social systems, and population processes, particularly in Palestine. She has been involved in research projects on different topics, including youth mental health and wellbeing, adolescent refugee girls’ health, deprivation, and mental health, and health system preparedness in the COVID-19 response.
Nadim Rouhana
Nadim N. Rouhana is Professor of International Negotiation and Conflict Studies at The Fletcher School, Graduate School of International Affairs, Tufts University. His current research includes work on the dynamics of protracted social conflict, collective identity and democratic citizenship in multiethnic states, the questions of reconciliation and multicultural citizenship, transitional justice, and international negotiations. His research and writing focused on the Arab-Israeli conflict and on Israeli and Palestinian societies. He is also the Founding Director of “Mada al-Carmel — The Arab Center for Applied Social Research” in Haifa. The center focuses on issues of identity, citizenship and democracy, and the future relationship between Palestinians and Israelis.
Maureen Ali
Al-Shabaka Policy Member 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.
