Omar Jabary Salamanca, Mezna Qato, Kareem Rabie, and Sobhi Samour

Omar Jabary Salamanca is completing a PhD in political and human geography at the Middle East and North Africa Research Group, Ghent University. His research examines spatial modalities of settler colonialism and uneven development in Palestine, with a particular focus on the socio-economic and political histories of infrastructure networks.

Mezna Qato is completing a DPhil in history at the University of Oxford. Her thesis is a social history of educational regimes for Palestinians.

Kareem Rabie is completing his PhD in the Department of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His dissertation research examines the present push towards privatization in the housing market, and the contemporary state-building project in the West Bank.

Sobhi Samour is completing his PhD in the department of economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. His thesis is on settler-colonial responses to the forces and relations of production in indigenous societies, with particular reference to the Palestinian economy.