Layth Malhis is a graduate student at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, where his work focuses on settler colonialism and Palestinian health. His research advances the concept of “de-healthification” as an analytical framework for understanding the systematic dismantling and weaponization of healthcare in Palestine under successive regimes of colonial control. He is also a researcher at the Institute for Palestine Studies, where he contributes to the Healthcare Destruction Database and scholarship on medical violence and colonial governance. Previously, he managed North American operations for the House of Jerusalem (Bayt al-Maqdis), a Palestinian food import initiative, examining how Palestinian businesses navigate occupation, global supply chains, and the political economy of dispossession.



