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Jamil Hilal

Jamil Hilal is a Palestinian sociologist and has published extensively in Arabic and English on Palestinian society, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and on regional issues. In early 1972, he left academic life in England and went to Beirut to join a Palestinian research center. Around the same time, he joined a leftist Palestinian organization that formed part of the PLO, gaining a leadership position in this organization in Lebanon as well as in the leadership of the Palestinian Writers Union. He was elected as a member of  the Palestine National Council as an independent member in 1983. In early 1992, he returned to academic life engaged mostly in research and writing. He has since been a senior research fellow in a number of research institutions, including Birzeit University near Ramallah. He has edited and served on the editorial board of a number of Palestinian journals.

 

 

ARTICLES BY Jamil Hilal