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Research Fellows
Abdul Rahman Abdul-Ghani:
Ph.D. in History from the University of
Heidelberg. He teaches history at Birzeit University where he has served as
Chairman of the Department of Cultural Studies.
He has published several studies and at
present finishing a book on the history of democracy from ancient times to the
present.
His area of interests include: Modern European history and the history of
Palestine
Selected publications:
On Israelization: the state of
the Arab Minority in Israel, Ramallah-Palestine 2001
Nazi Germany and Palestine
(in Arabic) 1933-1945. Beirut 1995.
"German Policy and the Palestinian
Question as reflected 4/24/1424 in Haj Amin El Husseni's Correspondence", in:
the Journal of Palestinian Studies, vol. 14, Spring 1993.
Industrial England and Germany 1815-1848. A study in Classical Theory of
Development and its Social and Political Problems
(in Arabic) Jerusalem, 1987
Abdul-Rahim al-Shaikh:
Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Utah. He is a poet
and writer and teaches cultural studies, Islamic thought, and Arab
intellectual history at Birzeit University. He carried-out his
post-graduate research in Germany focusing on Islamic hermeneutics and
cultural mobility in near eastern literatures. Among his works during this
training: The Other and the Transformations of Mahmoud Darwish’s
Literary Discourse (1999), and Beyond the Last Twilight: A Critical
and Annotated Translation of Barghuthi’s Autobiography al-Daw’ al-Azraq (The
Blue Light) (2003).
His area of interests include:
politics of identity, educational politics, post-colonial studies, modernization
and post-modernism, and the role of intellectuals in society. He has published
several papers in related areas, and coordinates the Muwatin training program in
research and writing skills for university students and other researchers.
Selected publications:
Poetry
Ash Wheels
(1998),
City Remnants (2003)
Departing Narratives
is (forthcoming in 2006).
Books
Reaction and Origination:
Comparative Approaches on the Rise of Palestinian National Identity
(forthcoming, 2007)
From Shanfara to Said: A
Genealogy of the Arab Intellectual. (Forthcoming, 2007)
Hadil Qazzaz: Ed.D.
(Doctor of Education) in Policy and Planning of Adult and Continuing
Education, School of Education, University of Leeds, U.K. She has served as
a lecturer at Birzeit University, and was a Research Coordinator in the
Development Studies Program, Birzeit University. Currently she is Program
Coordinator at the Heinrich Böll Foundation (hbf) – Arab Middle East Office
in Ramallah, and is working on a book on women preachers in Palestinian
society. Co-Author in three books in post-literacy, published by the Center
for Curriculum Development-Ministry of Education.
Her area of interests include:
Educational development, woman and political participation and elections.
Selected publications:
Co-Author of "Engendering National
Budgets in Palestine" published by Miftah., 2005
Co-Author, “The Two Earth Summits in
Your Hands – a manual for the civil activists about the earth summit at
Johannesburg”. Heinrich Böll Foundation, Ramallah, 2002.
Co-Author of “Human development in
Palestine”, published by Development Studies Program, Birzeit University. 1998
Co-Author of “Palestinian
Women and Development”, published by Development Studies Program, Birzeit
University. 1998
Islah Jad: Ph.D in political science from SOAS (School
of African and Asian Studies)
University of London. She has published several papers and contributions in
books, and teaches in the MA program in Women Studies, and the Cultural
Studies Program at Birzeit University. Most recently she is preparing for
publication a study on Islamist Women's Organization in Palestine.
Her area of interests include: Political Participations, Gender studies, Islamic
woman's movements.
Selected publications:
“Citizens without
Citizenship, the case of Palestinian Women”. in Joseph, Suad (ed.).
Subject-Making in Muslim Communities. Forthcoming.
2007
Arab Human
Development Report: Women’s Empowerment, 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, Feminist Press 2005.
“The ‘NGOisation’
of the Arab Women’s Movement”, IDS Bulletin, Sussex University Press,
vol.
35 No 4, October 2000
Women in
Politics, Palestinian Women: A status report, Women’s Studies Institute, Bir
Zeit University, 2000
Ismail al-Nashef:
Ph.D. in Linguistic and Social Anthropology from the University of Texas at
Austin. . His revised Ph.D. dissertation entitled Resistive Margins:
Identity, community, and text among Palestinian political captives
will be published by
Routledge in 2007. He teaches at Birzeit University sociology
and anthropology.
His area of interests include: on
the theoretical level as well as on the empirical one. The intersections of
language, broadly conceived, society and culture, investigating the concept of
expressive culture through studying ideology and aesthetic as the domains in
which linguistic and other signification systems are deployed in the Palestinian
context, in particular, and colonial conditions, in general..
Selected publications:
The Probable Field: Knowledge
Production in Palestine. Ramallah: Muwatin, the Palestinian Institute for
the study of Democracy. (forthcoming 2007).
Opening the
Episteme: Modernity and Knowledge in Palestine. Mada Akhar (Cultural
Journal), vol. 2, pp. 21-56, 2006.
Deconstructing Zionism: Space and
Ideology in the Israeli City. Ramallah: Abu Lughod Institute for
International Studies, 2005.
‘The
Structures of Revolutionary Practices: Palestinian political captives in Israeli
Prisons’. In T. Ewing, (ed.) Revolution and Pedagogy: Interdisciplinary and
transnational perspectives on educational foundations. NY: Palgrave Press,
2005.
“Attempts at Liberation: Body
materialization and community building among Palestinian political captives”.
Arab Studies Journal, vol. 7 & 8, pp. 46-79, 2005
Hadith, Short Stories.
Jerusalem: al Salaam Publications, 1998.
Taba‘athur, Short Stories.
Jerusalem: al Isra’a Publications, 1996
Jamil Hilal: M. Phil in political sociology from the University of
Durham. Served as lecturer at the
University of Durham, and was a research fellow at Oxford University. He
has published several books and numerous articles on political development,
democratization, and the Palestinian political system after Oslo. His most
recent books include The Formation of the Palestinian Elite, and
The Palestinian Middle Class.
His area of interests include: range from dynamic Palestinian society,
political parties, ramification of Israeli Palestinian conflict, Elite
formation, political system, social movement, Israel strategies in Middle East.
Selected publications:
The Palestinian Middle Class
Muwatin, The Palestinian institute for the study of Democracy, Ramallah, and
Institute of Palestine Studies, Beirut, 2006.
Editor; Where Now to Palestine;
the Demise of the Two States Solution, Z Books; January, 2006.
with Ilan Pappe’ editors ”Talking
to the Enemy”, published by Bollati Boringhiere, Torino,
in 2004. In Italian
The Palestinian Political System
after Oslo; A Critical Assessment (Muwatin, The Palestinian institute for
the study of Democracy, Ramallah, and Institute of Palestine Studies, Beirut,
1998. re-published with an update in 2006.
The Formation of the Palestinian
Elite: From the Palestinian National Movement to the Rise of the Palestinian
Authority. Muwatin, the Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy,
2002.
Israel’s Economic
Strategy in the Middle East .Institute of Palestine Studies, Beirut, 1995
Johnny Assi: Ph.D. in Public law and political science from Jean Moulin University,
Lyon, France. He is a lecturer at Birzeit University in International
Studies and Democracy and Human Rights' Programs, and he is invited
Professor at Institute of Political Studies, at Lumieres University in Lyon,
France.
His area of interests include: international law, democratization and its
requisites, and comparative political development. water and Intrnational law.
Transition to democracy, Hegemony and law and international theory relation.
Selected publications:
International Relations since the end of the
gold war: Theory and Ideology,
Strategic Papers of Abu lughod Institute of International studies. Birzeit
University, 2006
UNESCO's Report on "Human Rights Education in Palestinian Schools" (main
drafter of "historical and cultural background of Human right's education in
Palestine). 2006
Commentary to "Beyond the Armed Struggle", Strategic papers of Abu Lughod
Institute of International Studies. Birzeit University. 2005 (in English)
The UN and the Dilemma of Multilateral
diplomacy. Strategic papers of
Abu Lughod Institute of International Studies. Birzeit University, 2004
Introduction to Political Transitions in the Arab World,
edited by Roger Heacock, Second volume. Ibrahim Abu Lughod Institute of
International Studies. Birzeit University 2002 (in English)
Khalil Nakhleh: Ph.D in Socio-cultural Anthropology
from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.
He taught at several universities in the US and served as Executive Director
of the Welfare Organization, and consultant to the EU. He has several books
including most recently In Search of a Palestinian
Identity: A personal Odyssey. At
present he is working on a book on Palestinian higher education.
Selected publications:
The Myth of Palestinian Development:
Political Aid and Sustainable Deceit.
Ramallah: Muwatin, the Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy, and
the Institute of Jerusalem Studies (Arabic). 2004
The New Mercenaries: Consolidation of an Ancient Model. In The New
Palestine, The New Europe. Ibrahim Abu Lughod Institute of International
Studies, Birzeit University, pp. 7 – 12.
Development of Democratization in a Non-Sovereign Context: Palestine, presented
to the Colloquium on “Transition to Democracy in the Middle East”, TAPRI
Mediterranean Studies Project, University of Tampere, Finland, 11-14
October.
Indigenous Organizations in Palestine: Towards a Purposeful Societal Development.
Jerusalem: Arab Thought Forum. 1991 (An Arabic version was published in 1990
Lena Jayyusi: Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Manchester. She is the
author of Categorization and the Moral Order.
She taught at several universities in the US and the Arab world, and has
published several articles and chapters in books on related topics, She is
currently editing a reader on Media and Democracy for Muwatin.
Her area of interests include: Media and Society, Qualitative Research
Methodology, Culture and Communication, Micro-Sociology of Knowledge, Discourse
Analysis, and Identity: Discourses, Practices and Politics, Linguistic
Philosophy, Global Studies.
Selected publications:
Categorization and the Moral
Order, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, in their series: International
Library of Phenomenology and the Moral Sciences, 1984.
“Iterability, Cumulatively and
Presence: The Relational Figures of Palestinian Memory”. In Ahmad Sa’di and Lila
Abu-Lughod, eds. The Claims of Memory: Palestine 1948. Columbia
University Press, 2007
"Between Saying and Showing: Making
and Contesting Truth Claims in the Media", in B. Dupret and J.-N. Ferrié (Eds)
Médias, guerres et identités. Les pratiques communicationnelles de
l'appartenance politique, ethnique et religieuse (Media, Wars, and
Identities: Communicational Practices of Political, Ethnic, and Religious
Membership) Paris: CNRS Editions, Hermes series (in press).
“Communication and Consequence”.
Review article for 2nd issue of Global Media and Communication Journal. April
2006, Vol. 2, no. 1.
"Media, Power and Performativity".
International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, January 2005, Vol.
1, No. 1
“Voicing the Nation: The Struggle
over Palestinian Broadcasting”. Inter/Sections. July 2002.
“The Voice of Palestine and
the Peace Process: Paradoxes in Media Discourse After Oslo”. In After Oslo:
New Realities, Old Problems, G. Giacaman and D. J. Lonning (Eds.).
Pluto Press, 1998
Linda Tabar: is completing a Ph.D. at the School of Oriental and African Studies
and is co-author with Sari Hanafi of Donors, International Organizations,
and Local NGOs. She is also at work on a study on Palestinian
Nationalism after Oslo and the Counter-Narratives within the Nation.
Selected publications:
"Memory and Resistance in Jenin:
Beyond Infrahumanity?" Critical Arts (Forthcoming: 2007).
With Sari Hanafi. Donors,
International NGOs and Local NGOs: The Emergence of a Palestinian Globalized
Elite. (Muwatin and Institute for Jerusalem Studies: Ramallah, 2005).
With Sari Hanafi. “Donor Assistance,
Rent-Seeking and Elite Formation.” Mushtaq Khan and George Giacaman (eds.)
Corruption and State Formation in Palestine. (Routledge: London, 2004).
With Sari Hanafi. “The Intifada
and the Aid Industry: the Impact of the New Liberal Agenda and the Palestinian
NGOs.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 23:
1&2 (2003).
“Jenin Refugee Camp: A Model
of National Regrouping.” Between the Lines, March 2003
Raja Bahlul: Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Indiana at Bloomington. He
has taught at several universities in the US, Arab countries, and Palestine,
and is the author of several books including On the Relation Between
Democracy and Secularism, as well as many papers and chapters in books
His areas of interests include: Social and Political Thought: Democracy,
Feminism, Islamic Political Thought. Islamic Philosophy: Ghazali, Avicenna,
Averroes. Metaphysics: Identity, Individuation, Predication. Philosophy of
Science: Explanation
Selected publications:
“Palestine-in-the-Mediterranean: History, Culture and Political Future",
in L'alternativa mediterranea, ed. Danilo Zolo. Milan: Feltrenelli, 2006
(With Paul Salem and Georg Fedtke) Constitutions and Constitutional Rule:
First Principles. Amman: Frederic von Nauman Foundation, 2005. (Arabic).
From Jihad to Peaceful Co-existence: The
Development of Islamic Views on Politics and International Relations.
Birzeit: The Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Institute of International Studies (Strategic
Papers Series), 2003. (English).
Popular Sovereignty, Divine Sovereignty: On
the Relation Between Democracy and Secularism. Amman: Dar al-Shorouq, 2000.(Arabic).
Women and Democracy in Liberal Feminist
Thought. Ramallah: The
Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy, 1998. (Arabic).
Education and Democracy.
Ramallah: The Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy, 1997. (Arabic)
Sari Hanafi:
Ph.D. in Sociology from EHESS-Paris, and taught at various universities
including The American University of Beirut where he is at present Visiting
Associate Professor. He was formerly director of Palestinian Refugee and
Diaspora Centre, Shaml. He is the author of several books including most
recently, Donors, International organizations, local NGOs. Emergence of
the Palestinian Globalized Elite. with Linda Taber. (Arabic and
English).
His areas of
interests include: Economic
sociology and network analysis of the Palestinian Diaspora and refugees.
Sociology of migration
(mainly about the Palestinian refugees). Relationships between Diaspora and
center, sociology of return migration, transnationalism, sociology of the new
actors in international relations (NGOs and international NGOs), civil society;
elite formation; paradigms and methodology in social sciences.
Selected publications:
with S. Bennéfissa, N. Abdel Fattah
and C. Milani eds. NGOs and Governance in the Arab World. Issues,
Problems and Case Studies. Cairo: American University of Cairo Press. 2005,
also published in Arabic, Cairo: Center of Political and Strategic Studies of Al
Ahram. 2004
Co editor with
Sarah Bennéfissa, Pouvoir et associations dans le monde arabe, Paris:
CNRS. 2002
Huna wa hunak :
nahwa tahlil lil ‘alaqa bin al-shatat al-falastini wa al markaz (Here
and There: Towards an Analysis of the Relationship between the Palestinian
Diaspora and the Center), Ramallah : Muwatin, Jerusalem : Institute
of Jerusalem Studies (distribution Beirut : Institute of Palestine Studies).
2001
Business Directory of
Palestinian in the Diaspora,
Jerusalem: Biladi, (In English, French and Arabic).
1998
Taleb Awad: Ph.D. in economics and High Diploma in Political Science from Acadamic
Social Science in Sofia, Bulgaria. He is now teaching in the Democracy and
Human Rights program, Birziet University. He is the author of several books
including Parliamentary Elections in Jordan, and has contributed
several chapters to books and journals.
His area interests include: electoral systems and internal
democratization of political parties.
Selected publications:
with Sameeh Shbeeb. The Internal Democracy of Palestinian Political Parties.
. Muwatin, the Palestinian institute for the study of Democracy. 2006
with Ahmad Majdalani. The Palestinian Electoral System: An Analysis of its
Possible Impact on Elections. Muwatin, the Palestinian institute for the
study of Democracy, 2004
Democratic Transformation in Jordan:
1989- 1999. Muwatin, the Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy, 2000
Jordanian European Economic Relations.
Aman, 1994
Musa Budeiri: Ph.D in political science from the London School of Economics
University of London. He taught at several universities in the US and at
Birzeit University. He authored several books, articles, and chapters in
books, and at present he is finishing a book-length study on the rise and
development of Hamas
Selected publications:
The Palestine Communist Party 1919-1948:
Arab And Jew In The Struggle For Internationalism.
London 1979
The Development of the Arab
Labour Movement in Palestine: A Historical Introduction and Collected Documents
1919-1948. Beirut 1981.
”Democracy and Regime Survival in
Jordan” in May Jayyusi (ed.): Liberation, Democratization, &
Transitions to Statehood in the Third World
Muwatin. Ramallah, Palestine. 1998
“Defeat and victory: thirty years since the
1967 war” in Haim Gordon ed. Looking Back at the June
1967 War. Praeger. Westport. Connecticut. 1999
“A Chronicle of a Defeat Foretold: The Battle
for Jerusalem in the Memoirs of Anwar Nusseibeh” in Jerusalem Quarterly File
Double Issue 11-12, 2001
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