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Leila Farsakh

Leila Farsakh
ليلى فرسخ
Born1967
Jordan
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (MPhil, 1990)
University of London (PhD, 2003)
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Leila Farsakh (Arabic: ليلى فرسخ) (born 1967) is a Palestinian political economist who was born in Jordan and is a Professor of Political Science at University of Massachusetts Boston.[1][2] Her area of expertise is Middle East Politics, Comparative Politics, and the Politics of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Farsakh holds a MPhil from the University of Cambridge, UK (1990) and a PhD from the University of London (2003).[1]

Farsakh conducted post-doctoral research at Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and was a research affiliate at the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1]

She has worked with a number of organizations, including the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris (1993 - 1996) and the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute in Ramallah (1998 - 1999).[3]

In 2001, she won the Peace and Justice Award from the Cambridge Peace Commission in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[3]

Farsakh was member of the editorial Board for the Journal Of Palestine Studies (2008-2020) and was the Project Co-Director for Jerusalem 2050, a problem-solving project jointly sponsored by Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the Center for International Studies.[4] She has written extensively on issues related to the Palestinian economy and the Oslo peace process, international migration and regional integration.[4]

Farsakh was also a member of the Board at the non-governmental organization RESIST, founded in 1967 to provide grant money and support to grassroots movements advocating for social change.[5]

Selected publications

Books (partial list)

  • Palestinian Labour Migration to Israel: Labour, Land, and Occupation (2005). Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom. ISBN 0-415-33356-3.[6]
  • Development Strategies, Employment and International Migration, (co-edited with David O’Connor), OECD Development Center Publications, Paris, 1996.
  • Palestinian Employment in Israel: 1967-1997 Ramallah, 1998.
  • Commemorating the Naksa, Evoking the Nakba, (guest editor), Electronic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Spring 2008, MIT, Boston, 2008.
  • The Arab and Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond, (co-edited with Bashir Bashir), Columbia University Press, 2020.
  • Rethinking Statehood in Palestine: Self-Determination and Decolonization Beyond Partition, University of California Press, 2021.[7]

Articles (partial list)

Public lectures

References

  1. ^ a b c "UMass Boston Political Scientist Focuses on a New Civic Blueprint for Jerusalem". University of Massachusetts Boston. Archived from the original on 9 May 2007. Retrieved 11 September 2007.
  2. ^ "Leila Farsakh". UMass Boston. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Political Science Faculty". University of Massachusetts Boston. Archived from the original on 13 October 2008. Retrieved 11 September 2007.
  4. ^ a b "People". Jerusalem 2050. Archived from the original on 25 November 2005. Retrieved 11 September 2007.
  5. ^ "Board & Staff". RESIST. Archived from the original on 15 July 2007. Retrieved 11 September 2007.
  6. ^ David Bartram (2007). "Book Reviews: Palestinian and the Arab-Israeli Conflict". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 39 (3). Cambridge University Press: 475. doi:10.1017/S002074380707064X. S2CID 162873977. Retrieved 11 September 2007.
  7. ^ Farsakh, Leila H., ed. (26 October 2021). Rethinking Statehood in Palestine: Self-Determination and Decolonization Beyond Partition. University of California Press. doi:10.1525/luminos.113. ISBN 978-0-520-38562-7.
  8. ^ "Middle East Forum Event Archive". Harvard University. Archived from the original on 16 May 2008. Retrieved 11 September 2007.
  9. ^ Matt Horton (March 2007). "Waging Peace". Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
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