Authors

Bashir Bashir and Leila Farsakh

Bashir Bashir is associate professor in the Department of Sociology, Political Science, and Communication at the Open University of Israel and a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue. His primary research interests are nationalism and citizenship studies, liberalism, multiculturalism, democratic theory, memory, and the politics of reconciliation. His writings have appeared in English, Hebrew, Arabic, Italian and German. He is the co-editor of The Politics of Reconciliation in Multicultural Societies (with Will Kymlicka, OUP, 2008) and The Holocaust and the Nakba (with Amos Goldberg, CUP, 2018).


Leila Farsakh is associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a research fellow at the Center for International Studies at MIT and at Birzeit University. Her research interests focus on the political economy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, labor migration, and the politics of partition and its alternatives in Israel-Palestine. Her writings have been published in a wide range of academic journals and appeared in a number of languages, including Arabic, French, and Hebrew. Her books include Palestinian Labor Migration to Israel: Labour, Land and Occupation (Routledge, 2012) and Rethinking Statehood in Palestine (University of California Press, forthcoming, 2021).

ARTICLES BY Bashir Bashir and Leila Farsakh