Leena Dallasheh لينا دلاشة

Leena Dallasheh is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University. She recently received her PhD  in the joint History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies program at New York University. Her research focuses on the social and political history of Nazareth from 1940 to 1966, tracing how Palestinians who remained in Israel in 1948 negotiated their incorporation in the state, affirming their rights as citizens and their identity as Palestinian. Before coming to NYU, she received a law degree from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.