Ahmad Amara is a legal historian, lawyer, and human rights advocate whose research focuses on law, history, and geography, particularly property and land law in Palestine since the late Ottoman period, with a focus on Jerusalem and the Naqab. He holds a PhD in History and Hebrew and Judaic Studies from New York University, an LLB and LLM from Tel Aviv University, and an MA in international human rights law from the University of Essex. Before his doctorate, he served as a global advocacy fellow with Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program. His books include Emptied Lands: A Legal Geography of Bedouin Rights in the Negev and Settling in the Hearts: Palestinian Neighborhoods in Jerusalem.
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On Indigenous People’s Day in 2018, several Palestinian human rights organizations released a statement that called on the international community “to center Native history as the necessary beginning of historical reconciliation and a collectively emancipatory process of decolonization.”
