Leila Farsakh | |
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ليلى فرسخ | |
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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)
- "Under Siege: Closure, Separation and the Palestinian Economy". MERIP. 217. Winter 2000. Archived from the original on 13 April 2001.
- "The Palestinian economy and the Oslo "Peace Process"". Trans-Arab Research Institute. 2001.
- "Economic Viability of a Palestinian State in the West Bank and Gaza Strip: Is it Possible without Territorial Integrity and Sovereignty?". MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies. May 2001. Archived from the original on 31 October 2001.
- "Palestinian Labor Flows to Israel: A Finished Story?". Journal of Palestine Studies (125). Autumn 2002. doi: 10.1525/jps.2002.32.1.13. Archived from the original on 17 March 2007.
- "Israel: An Apartheid State?". Le Monde diplomatique. November 2003.
- "The Political Economy of Agrarian Change in the West Bank and Gaza Strip" (PDF). Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute. 2004.
- "Independence, Cantons, or Bantustans: Whither the Palestinian State?". Middle East Journal. 59 (2). Spring 2005. doi: 10.3751/59.2.13. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 August 2007.
- "Time for a Bi-National State". Le Monde diplomatique. March 2007. (also published as: "Israel-Palestine: Time for a bi-national state". Electronic Intifada. 20 March 2007.)
- "Statement: One country, one state". Electronic Intifada. 9 July 2007. (co-author)
- "A Legacy of Promise for Muslims". Boston Globe. 11 September 2007. (co-authored with Elora Chowdhury)
- "The Economics of Israeli Occupation: What is Colonial about it?". The Electronic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 8. Spring 2008.
- "Introduction – Engaging Islam: Feminisms, Religiosities and Self-Determinations". International Feminist Journal of Politics. 10 (4): 439–454. December 2008. doi: 10.1080/14616740802393866. (co-authored with Elora Chowdhury and Rajini Srikanth)
- "The One State Solution and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Palestinian Challenges and Prospects". Middle East Journal. 64 (1): 20–45. Winter 2011. doi: 10.3751/65.1.13.
- "Economic Prospects for a One-State Solution in Palestine-Israel". Holy Land Studies. 12 (2): 119–140. 2013. doi: 10.3366/hls.2013.0066.
- "Undermining Democracy in Palestine: the Politics of International Aid since Oslo". Journal of Palestine Studies. 45 (4). Summer 2016. doi: 10.1525/jps.2016.45.4.48.
- "Knowledge Production, Colonialism and The Palestinian Economy". Journal of Palestine Studies. XLV (2). Winter 2016.
- "A Common State in Israel-Palestine: Historical Origins and Lingering Challenges". Ethnopolitics. 15 (4): 380–392. 2016.
- "The 'Right to Have Rights': Partition and Palestinian Self-Determination". Journal of Palestine Studies. 47 (1): 56–68. November 2017. doi: 10.1525/jps.2017.47.1.56.
Public lectures
- "Palestinian Labor Flow to Israel: Is it Over?", at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, 19 February 2002. [8]
- Palestinian Perspective, Chomsky Lecture on Middle East Crises, December 14, 2000
- Beyond Apartheid in Israel/Palestine: The Reality on the Ground & Lessons from South Africa, at Northeastern University in Boston, 19 November 2006. [9]
- Notes on Analogy: Israel and Apartheid, at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, 16 March 2007.
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Leila Farsakh". UMass Boston. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
- ^ a b "Political Science Faculty". University of Massachusetts Boston. Archived from the original on 13 October 2008. Retrieved 11 September 2007.
- ^ a b "People". Jerusalem 2050. Archived from the original on 25 November 2005. Retrieved 11 September 2007.
- ^ "Board & Staff". RESIST. Archived from the original on 15 July 2007. Retrieved 11 September 2007.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Middle East Forum Event Archive". Harvard University. Archived from the original on 16 May 2008. Retrieved 11 September 2007.
- ^ Matt Horton (March 2007). "Waging Peace". Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
External links
- The Deteriorating Political Economy of Palestine A video interview with Leila Farsakh, interview conducted by Saul Landau on "Hot Talk" radio Cal Poly Pomona, March 15, 2004.
- Leila Farsakh published works at Department of Political Science - University of Massachusetts Boston
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