I caught my breath as Dr. Haidar cleared his throat in order to begin the opening speech of the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid Peace Conference on the last day of October 1991. I was sitting on the carpeted floor outside in the hallway around the conference room. Last night, after midnight..
Penny Johnson
Penny Johnson is on the Editorial Committee of the Jerusalem Quarterly and was a founding member of the Institute of Women's Studies at Birzeit University. Her book, Companions in Conflict: Animals in Occupied Palestine, was published in 2019 by Melville House Books. She was a staff member of the Palestinian delegation at the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference and the subsequent bilateral negotiations in Washington.