In 2014, the United Nations has projected that Gaza will be uninhabitable by the year 2020; this year is upon us, so what does this calculation mean? Since the Great March of Return began on March 30, 2018, more than 8000 protestors have been shot by IDF snipers and sustained lower limb injuries..
Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Jehan Bseiso, Jasbir K. Puar, Francesco Sebregondi, and Helga Tawil Souri
Ghassan Abu-Sittah is a British-Palestinian plastic and reconstructive surgeon. He completed his medical education at University of Glasgow, and did his postgraduate residency training in London. In 2015, he cofounded the Conflict Medicine Program at the American University of Beirut. He has worked as a war surgeon in Syria, Iraq, South Lebanon and during the three wars in the Gaza Strip, and has published extensively on war injuries.
Jehan Bseiso is executive director of Médecins Sans Frontières Lebanon. With MSF since 2008, she has worked in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Belgium, and elsewhere. Jehan is also a poet and writer. Her book I Remember My Name won a Palestine Book Award in 2016. She recently coedited the volume Making Mirrors: Writing/Righting by and for Refugees (2019).
Jasbir K. Puar is Professor and graduate director of women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of the award-winning books The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2017) and Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2017, 2007). She is currently completing a collection of essays on duration, pace, mobility, and acceleration in Palestine titled Slow Life: Settler Colonialism in Five Parts.
Francesco Sebregondi is an architect and researcher whose work explores the intersections of violence, technology, and the urban condition. A research fellow at Forensic Architecture since 2011, he co-edited the group's first publication, Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth (2014). He has recently completed his PhD at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University of London, where his research examined the architecture of the Gaza blockade.
Helga Tawil Souri is an associate professor in the Departments of Media, Culture and Communication, and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. A media scholar by training, her work focuses on spatiality, technology, and politics in the Middle East and especially Israel/Palestine. She co-edited the book Gaza As Metaphor (2016).