Advisory Committee
| Ali Abunimah | Islah Jad | Dorit Namaan |
| Meron Benvenisti | David Kretzmer | John B. Quigley |
| Leila Farsakh | Ian Lustick | Sammy Smooha |
| Daphna Golan-Agnon | Elia Zureik | |
Ali Abunimah
Ali Abunimah is author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse (Metropolitan Books, 2006), has contributed to several other volumes and written dozens of articles on the question of Palestine. He is a Fellow at the Palestine Center in Washington DC. He is co-founder of The Electronic Intifada, an online publication about Palestine and the Palestine-Israeli conflict that is read by over 65,000 individuals worldwide every month. He is currently researching the lessons of the Northern Ireland peace process for a settlement in Palestine-Israel.
Selected Publications
- "No Justice, No Peace," in Joel Schalit, ed., The Anti-Capitalism Reader (New York: Akashic Books, 2002).
- (With Hussein Ibish) "The US Media and the New Intifada," in Roane Carey, ed., The New Intifada (New York: Verso Books, 2001).
- (With Hussein Ibish) The Palestinian Right of Return (Washington, DC: ADC, 2001).
- (With Rania Masri) "The Media's Deadly Spin on Iraq," in Anthony Arnove, ed., Iraq Under Siege, new ed. (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2002).
- One Country: A Bold Proposal to the End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006).
Meron Benvenisti
Independent Researcher and Writer
Dr. Meron Benvenisti served as a deputy mayor of Jerusalem under Teddy Kollek from 1971 to 1978, during which he administered East Jerusalem and served as Jerusalem's Chief Planning Officer. He is a medieval scholar and published books and maps on the Crusader period in the Holy Land. In 1984 he founded the West Bank Database Project, documenting social, economic, and political developments in the West Bank. Since 1992 he devotes his time to teaching-- as visiting scholar (Ben Gurion U. 1994-1998 , Johns Hopkins SAIS 1982-2002), research and writing on Jerusalem, Northern Ireland conflict, Israeli- Palestinian relations, Palestinian vanished landscape and binationalism. Since 1991 he writes a column for Ha'aretz, Israel's leading newspaper. He holds a doctorate from Harvard's Kennedy School.
Selected Publications
- Son of the Cypresses (Berkley: University of California Press, 2007).
- The Morning After: The Era of Peace- No Utopia. (editor) (Jerusalem: Carmel and Hebrew University , 2002).
- Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land 1948-1998 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000).
- Jerusalem, City of Stone (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996 ).
- Intimate Enemies (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1995).
- Conflicts and Contradictions (New York : Villard Books (Random House), 1986).
- The West Bank Data Project: A Survey of Israel's Policies (Washington D.C. : American Enterprise Institute, 1984).
- The Crusaders in the Holy Land (New York: Macmillan, 1973).
Leila Farsakh
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts at Boston
Leila Farsakh is assistant professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of London (2003), an M.Phil from the University of Cambridge, UK (1990), and a B.A from the University of Exeter in the UK (1989). She has worked with a number of international organizations, including the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris (1993-1996) and the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute in Ramallah (1998-1999). Between 2003 and 2004 she undertook a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University.
Dr. Farsakh has published on questions related to Palestinian labor flows, the Oslo Process, international migration and regional integration in a wide range of journals, including the Middle East Journal, the European Journal of Development Research, Journal of Palestine Studies and Le Monde Diplomatique. Her book, Palestinian Labor Migration to Israel: Labour, Land and Occupation, was published by Routledge Press in fall 2005. Her latest publications include editing Commemorating the Naksa, Evoking the Nakba, for the Electronic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, in Spring 2008. In 2001 she won the Peace and Justice Award from the Cambridge Peace Commission, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Prof. Farsakh holds a Ph.D. from the University of London, and an M.Phil from Cambridge University, UK.
Selected Publications
- "Palestinian Labor Flows to the Isreali Economy: A Finished Story?" (Autumn 2002) 32 J. of Palestine Stud. 13.
- "Independence, Cantons, or Bantustans: Whither the Palestinian State?" (2005) 59 Middle East J. 230.
- Labor Migration to Israel: Labor, Land, and Occupation (New York: Routledge, 2005).
- "The One-State Solution: A Breakthrough for Peace in the Israeli Palestinian Deadlock" (2006) 35 J. Palestine Stud. 79.
Daphna Golan-Agnon
Research Associate
Minerva Center for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Golan-Agnon is a Research Associate at the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She coordinates an Israeli-Palestinian research group on Reconciliation and Transitional Justice.
Since 1999, she has established and taught two fellowship programs at the Hebrew University: The Human Rights Fellows Program of The Minerva Center for Human Rights, at the Law School, and The Fellowship Program for Gender Equality and the Prevention of Violence against Women. Both programs aim to afford students the opportunity to serve wider society while developing their understanding of human rights, Israeli society and the problems that exist within it. These fellowship programs provide Jewish and Arab students a rare opportunity to study together and to engage in a dialogue on their responsibility to promote social justice and human rights in their communities. Both programs have served as models for other higher institutions in Israel.
Selected Publications
- Where Am I in this Story? (New York: The New Press, 2005).
- Next Year in Jerusalem (New York, The New Press, 2005).
- "Separate but Not Equal: Discrimination Against Palestinian Arab Students in Israel" (2006) 49 American Behavioral Scientist 1075.
- "The Israeli human rights movement-lessons from South Africa," in David Downes et al., eds., Crime, Social Control and Human Rights: from moral panics to states of denial (Portland OR: Willan, 2007).
Islah Jad
Director
Women's Studies Institute, Birzeit University
Dr. Islah Jad is currently the director of the Women's Studies Institute at Birzeit University. She also teaches as the Cultural Studies Department at Birzeit University. She is a founding member of the Women's Studies Institute at Birzeit University. Professor Jad is an expert on gender issues, and she advised a number of departments of the Palestinian Authority on the issue of women involvement and gender awareness. She is also a global research theme convener on "Building Constituencies for Women's Empowerment" at the University of Sussex.
Selected Publications
- Women at the Crossroads :The Palestinian Women's Movement between Nationalism, Secularism and Islamism (Ramallah: MUWATIN-The Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy,2008).
- "NGOs between buzzwords and social movements" (2007) 17(4) Development in Practice 622-629.
- Arab Human Development Report: Women's Empowerment (New York: UNDP 2006).
- Islamist Women of Hamas: A New Women's Movement? In Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone ed., On Shifting Ground; Muslim Women in a Global Era (New York: Feminist Press 2005).
- "Women in the First Legislative Elections" (1996) 3(10) Palestinian Politics, Center for Research and Palestine Studies (In Arabic).
- "Claiming Feminism , Claiming Nationalism : Women's Activism in the Occupied Territories" in Amrita Basu ed., The Challenge of Local Feminisms (Boulder: Westview Press , 1995).
- "The Evolution of the Political Role of the Palestinian Women's Movement in the Uprising" in Michael C. Hudson ed., The Palestinians: New Directions (Washington D.C: Center for Contemporary Arab Studies Georgetown University, 1990).
- "From Saloon Ladies to Popular Committees" in Jamal Nassar & Roger Heacock eds., Intifada: Palestine at the Crossroad (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1990)
David Kretzmer
Louis Marshall Professor of Environmental Law
Faculty of Law, Hebrew University
David Kretzmer is a professor of law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has been a visiting professor at Columbia University, the University of Southern California, Tulane University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University, and a visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies of London University, and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Foreign Law in Heidelberg.
He was the founding director of the Centre for Human Rights at the Hebrew University and from 1997-2002 served as Director of the Minerva Centre for Human Rights of the Hebrew and Tel Aviv Universities. Professor Kretzmer was member of the UN Human Rights Committee from 1995-2002, and vice-chairperson in 2001 and 2002. In addition, he was Founding Member and Past Chairperson of the Board, Association for Civil Rights in Israel; and has served as Member of Board, Hamoked, Center for Defense of the Individual; Member of Executive Board, B'Tselem, The Israel Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories Commissioner; International Commission of Jurists Legal Commentator as well as Jerusalem Post Contributing Editor, Jerusalem Report.
Selected Publications
- Presidential Elements in Government Experimenting with Constitutional Change: Direct Election of the Prime Minister in Israel" (2006) 2 EuConst 60.
- "Targeted Killing of Suspected Terrorists: Extra-Judicial Executions or Legitimate Means of Defence?" (2005) 16 EJIL 171.
- The Occupation of Justice: The Supreme Court of Israel and the Occupied Territories (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2002).
- (With Eckart Klein) Editor, The Concept of Human Dignity in Human Rights Discourse (Norwell, MA: Kluwer Law International, 2002).
Ian Lustick
Professor, Bess W. Heyman Chair
Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Ian S. Lustick is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania where he holds the Bess W. Heyman Chair.
He is a founder and past President of the Association for Israel Studies, and a former President of the Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association. He is the originator of the PS-I computational modeling platform and a leader in the application of agent-based modeling techniques to problems in the social sciences. In 1979-80 Dr. Lustick worked as a Middle East analyst in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. Since then he has been consulted on Middle East affairs, foreign policy, and intelligence techniques by every administration, including projects, lectures, and consultancies for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Homeland Security, National Security Agency, and National Security Council.
His current research focuses on aspects of the long-term dynamics of the Israeli-Arab conflict as well as development and applications of agent-based modeling techniques to the solution of problems pertaining to identitarian conflict, political cascades, and political violence. Professor Lustick has received support for his research from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the United States Institute of Peace.
He is a member of the American Political Science Association, the Middle East Studies Association, the Association for Israel Studies, and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Selected Publications
- Trapped in the War on Terror (Philadelphia: UPenn Press, 2006).
- (With Ann M. Lesch) Editor, Exile and Return: Predicaments of Palestinians and Jews (Philadelphia: UPenn Press, 2005).
- (With Dan Miodownik & Roy J. Eidelson) "Secessionism in Multicultural States: Does Sharing Power Prevent or Encourage It?" (2004) 98 Am. Pol. Sci. Rev. 209.
- "Yerushalayim, al-Quds and the Wizard of Oz: Facing the Problem of Jerusalem after Camp David II and the al-Aqsa Intifada" (2004) 23 J. Israeli Hist. 200.
Dorit Namaan
Department of Film and Media, Queen's University
Dorit Namaan is a film theorist and documentarist from Jerusalem, and is currently the Alliance Atlantis Professor in the Film Studies Department at Queen's University, Canada. Her research focuses on Middle Eastern cinema (primarily from post-colonialist and feminist perspectives), and she is working on a book on the visual representation of Palestinian and Israeli women fighters (forthcoming, U. of Texas Press). Her documentary work is about identity politics, and politics of representation and she developed a format of short videos, DiaDocuMEntaRY.
Selected Publications
- Unruly Daughters to Mother Nation: A Palestinian and an Israeli First Person Films" (Spring 2008) 23 Hypatia 17.
- "Brides of Palestine/Angels of Death: Media, Gender and Performance in the case of the Palestinian Female Suicide Bomber" (Summer 2007) 32 Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 993, and reprinted in Karen Alexander and Mary Hawkesworth, eds., Feminist Perspectives on War and Terror (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008).
- "Elusive Frontiers: Borders in Palestinian and Israeli Cinema" (May-June 2006 ) 20 Third Text 511.
Filmography
- "Two Houses and a Longing" (2008) (Ir-Amim "A Moment in Jerusalem" production grant, 2008) which will be screened at the Jerusalem Film Festival in July 2008.
- "Jerusalem Walls: A Guided Tour" (2006).
- "The Silver Platter" (2005).
- "Home, Bitter/Sweet Home" (2003).
- "Salem/Jeru" (2003).
John B. Quigley
Professor
Michael E. Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University
Before joining the Ohio State faculty in 1969, Professor Quigley was a research scholar at Moscow State University, and a research associate in comparative law at Harvard Law School. Professor Quigley teaches International Law and Comparative Law. Professor Quigley holds an adjunct appointment in the Political Science Department. In 1982-83 he was a visiting professor at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Professor Quigley is active in international human rights work. In 1995 he was recipient of The Ohio State University Distinguished Scholar Award.
Selected Publications
- The Genocide Convention: An International Law Analysis (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2006).
- The Case for Palestine: An International Law Perspective (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005).
- "International Law and the Palestinian Refugees" (2005) 28 Hastings Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 405.
- "Repatriation of Displaced Palestinians as a Legal Right" (2003) 8 Nexus J. Op. 17.
Sammy Smooha
Dean
Faculty of Social Sciences, Haifa University
Sammy Smooha is a Professor of Sociology at Haifa University, and he is currently serving as Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. Professor Smooha's research focuses on internal divisions in the Israeli society, mainly Arabs and Jews in Israel and Mizrahim and Ashkenazim. His research interests include nationalism, democracy, management of ethnic conflicts and immigration, He is an expert on comparative ethnic relations, and has published extensively in that area. Professor Smooha has been teaching at Haifa University since 1974. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, Brown University and UCLA.
Selected Publications
- "The Mass Immigrations to Israel: A Comparison of the Failure of the Mizrahi Immigrants of the 1950s with the Success of the Russian Immigrants of the 1990s" (2008) 27 Journal of Israeli History 1.
- (With Priit Jarve) (Eds.). The Fate of Ethnic Democracy in Post-Communist Europe. (Budapest: Open Society Foundation, 2005).
- "Is Israel Western?" In Eliezer Ben Rafael & Yitzhak Sternberg eds., Comparing Modernities: Pluralism versus Homogeneity: Essays in Homage to Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, (Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers. 2005) 413.
- "Arab-Jewish Relations in Israel: A Deeply Divided Society" In Anita Shapira ed., Israeli Identity in Transition (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004) 3.
- "The Model of Ethnic Democracy: Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State" (2002) 8(4) Nations and Nationalism 475.
- "Types of Democracy and Modes of Conflict-Management in Ethnically Divided Societies" (2002) 8(4) Nations and Nationalism 423.
- Autonomy for Arabs in Israel? (Beit Berl: The Institute for Israeli Arab Studies, 1999).
- "Ethnic Democracy: Israel as an Archetype" (1997) 2(2) Israel Studies 198.
Elia Zureik
Professor Emeritus
Department of Sociology, Queen's University
Elia Zureik (B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Essex)) is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Queen's University, where he has been teaching since 1971. He is the author and editor of several books and numerous articles on the Middle East, with special focus on the Israeli-Palestinian dimension of the conflict. His articles on the Middle East appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies; The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies; Third World Quarterly; Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East; Global Dialogue; International Journal of the Sociology of Law; Social Justice; Journal of Refugee Studies; Journal of Palestine Studies; Arab Studies Quarterly; and Dissent, among others. In addition to his research on the Middle East, Zureik's research involves studying the impact of computers and the internet on society.
Selected Publications
- (With Mark B. Salter) Editor, Global Surveillance And Policing: Borders, Security, Identity (Portland OR: Willan Publishing, 2005).
- "Track-II Diplomacy: Lessons from the Middle East" (2005) 35 J. Palestine Stud. 110.
- "Theoretical and Methodological Considerations for the Study of Palestinian Society" (2003) 23 Comp. Stud. South Asia, Africa & Middle East 152.
- "Demography and Transfer: Israel's Road to Nowhere" (2003) 24 Third World Q. 619.
- (With Salim Tamari & Mu'assasat al-Dirāsāt al-Maqdisīyah) Reinterpreting the Historical Record: The Uses of Palestinian Refugee Archives for Social Science and Policy Analysis (Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestinain Studies, 2001).
- (With Fouad Moughrabi) Editor, Public Opinion and the Palestinian Question (New York: St. Martin's, 1987).
- (With Khalil Nakleh) Editor, The Sociology of the Palestinians (New York: St. Martin's, 1980).
