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Palestinian political economist

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. 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).

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.

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).

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

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. She has written extensively on issues related to the Palestinian economy and the Oslo peace process, international migration and regional integration.

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.

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.
  • 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.

Articles (partial list)

Public lectures

References

  1. ^ "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. ^ "Political Science Faculty". University of Massachusetts Boston. Archived from the original on 13 October 2008. Retrieved 11 September 2007.
  4. ^ "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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