As the bombs rained down on Gaza this summer, we were reminded yet again of the failure of peace talks, negotiations, or dialogue to attain meaningful results for the Palestinian people over the last seven decades of Israe..
Alex Shams and Ali Abdi
Alex Shams is a journalist based in Bethlehem, Palestine. He received his master’s from the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University in 2013 with a focus on gender in modern Iran. He is an editor-in-chief of Ajam Media Collective (AjamMC.com), a blog focused on culture and society in Iran and Central Asia.
Ali Abdi is a PhD student of Anthropology at Yale University. He is one of the founders of Havaar, the NY-based Iranian Initiative Against War, Sanctions, and State Repression. Before leaving Iran in 2009, Abdi was active in student and women`s rights movements.