Authors

Amahl A. Bishara

Amahl Bishara is Associate Professor and Chair of the Anthropology Department at Tufts University. She is the author of Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence, & Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression (Stanford University Press, 2022), about different conditions of expression for and exchange between Palestinian citizens of Israel and Palestinians in the West Bank, and Back Stories: U.S. News and Palestinian Politics (Stanford University Press, 2013), an ethnography of the production of US news during the second Palestinian intifadaShe also writes about popular refugee politics in the West Bank, attending to struggles over and through media, water, space, and protest. Working with youth at the Lajee Center, in Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem, she has co-produced two bilingual children’s books, including The Aida Alphabet Book (2014). She is co-director with Mohammad Al-Azza of the award-winning documentary, “Take My Pictures For Me” (2016). She is on the editorial boards of Journal of Palestine Studies and Cultural Anthropology and is the president of the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association. 

ARTICLES BY Amahl A. Bishara