Leila Farsakh
Leila Farsakh (Arabic: ليلى فرسخ) (born 1967) is a Palestinian Muslim who was born in Jordan and is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at University of Massachusetts Boston.[1] 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 is also 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).[2]
In 2001 she won the Peace and Justice Award from the Cambridge Peace Commission in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[2]
Farsakh is 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.[3] She has written extensively on issues related to the Palestinian economy and the Oslo peace process, international migration and regional integration.[3]
Farsakh is also part of the staff at the non-governmental organization RESIST, founded in 1967 to provide grant money and support to grassroots movements advocating for social change.[4]
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[edit] Interview
- 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.
[edit] Published works
[edit] Books (partial list)
- Palestinian Labour Migration to Israel: Labour, Land, and Occupation (2005). Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom. ISBN 0-415-33356-3.[5]
- Commemorating the Naksa, Evoking the Nakba, Electronic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Spring 2008, MIT, Boston, 2008.
- “Independence, Cantons or Bantustans: Whither the Palestinian State?” Middle East Journal, vol.59, no.2, Spring 2005, pp. 230-245.
- “Palestinian Labor Flows to Israel: A Finished Story?” Journal of Palestine Studies, vol. 32, no.1, Autumn 2002, pp. 13-27.
- Development Strategies, Employment and International Migration, (co-edited with David O’Connor), OECD Development Center Publications, Paris, 1996.
- North African Labour Flows and the Euro-Med partnership (1999). Part of the series: Europe and the South in the 21st century : Challenges for Renewed Cooperation. Paris : EADI.
- Palestinian Employment in Israel: 1967-1997 (1998). Ramallah.
[edit] Articles (partial list)
- A Legacy of Promise for Muslims, the Boston Globe, co-authored with Elora Chowdhury, 11 September 2007.
- with others: Statement: One country, one state 9 July 2007, Electronic Intifada,
- Time for a Bi-National State, March 2007 Le Monde diplomatique (also published in: Israel-Palestine: Time for a bi-national state, 20 March 2007 Electronic Intifada,
- The Economics of Israeli Occupation: What is Colonial about it?, 2006
- Independence, Cantons, or Bantustans: Whither the Palestinian State?[1] vol.59, no.2, Spring 2005, Middle East Journal
- The Political Economy of Agrarian Change in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Working Paper, European University Institute, 2004.
- Israel: An Apartheid State? November 2003, Le Monde diplomatique
- Palestinian Labor Flows to Israel: A Finished Story?[2],[3] issue 125, Autumn 2002, Journal of Palestine Studies,
- The Palestinian economy and the Oslo “Peace Process", the 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
- Under Siege: Closure, Separation and the Palestinian Economy 217 - Winter 2000, MERIP
[edit] Public Lectures
- Notes on Analogy: Israel and Apartheid, at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, 16 March 2007.
- Beyond Apartheid in Israel/Palestine: The Reality on the Ground & Lessons from South Africa, at Northeastern University in Boston, 19 November 2006.[6]
- "Palestinian Labor Flow to Israel: Is it Over?", at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, 19 February 2002.[7]
- Palestinian Perspective, Chomsky Lecture on Middle East Crises, December 14, 2000
[edit] References
- ^ a b c "UMass Boston Political Scientist Focuses on a New Civic Blueprint for Jerusalem". University of Massachusetts Boston. http://www.umb.edu/news/2007news/releases/april/just_jerusalem.html. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
- ^ a b "Political Science Faculty". University of Massachusetts Boston. http://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/dept/polisci/faculty/farsakh.html. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
- ^ a b "People". Jerusalem 2050. http://web.mit.edu/CIS/jerusalem2050/people.html. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
- ^ "Board & Staff". RESIST. http://www.resistinc.org/board_staff.html. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
- ^ David Bartram (2007). "Book Reviews: Palestinian and the Arab-Israeli Conflict". International Journal of Middle East Studies (Cambridge University Press) 39 (3): 475. doi:10.1017/S002074380707064X. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=1233848. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
- ^ Matt Horton (March 2007). "Waging Peace". Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. http://www.wrmea.com/archives/March_2007/0703057.html. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
- ^ "Middle East Forum Event Archive". Harvard University. http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/seminars/sle/mideast/arc. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
