Update below

We, the undersigned scholars and librarians working on the Middle East, hold that silence about the latest humanitarian catastrophe caused by Israel’s new military assault on the Gaza Strip – the third and most devastating in six years –constitutes complicity. World governments and mainstream media do not hold Israel accountable for its violations of international law. We, however, as a community of scholars engaged with the Middle East, have a moral responsibility to do so.

Neither the violation of international law nor the destruction of Palestinian life in Gaza, however, began or will end with the current war. Israel has maintained an illegal siege on the Gaza Strip for seven years. It has limited the movement of people and goods in and out of Gaza, rationing Palestinian calorie intake at just above subsistence levels [1]. Moreover, the suffering of Palestinians is not limited to Gaza: the occupation and dispossession in East Jerusalem, the Naqab (Negev), and the West Bank; the construction of walls and fences around the Palestinian population, the curtailment of Palestinian freedom of movement and education, and the house demolitions, all have long histories and no apparent end in sight. They will continue unless people around the world act where their governments have failed.

As employees in institutes of higher learning from around the world, we have a particular interest in and responsibility to respond to the obstacles to the right to higher education that the Israeli state has created for Palestinians both inside Israel and in the occupied territories. In the past two months alone, Israeli forces have raided Al Quds University in Jerusalem, the Arab American University in Jenin and Birzeit University near Ramallah [2]. In the current attacks, Israeli aerial bombardment has destroyed the Islamic University of Gaza. More generally, the Israeli state discriminates against Palestinian students in Israeli universities [3]; and it isolates Palestinian academia by, among other tactics, preventing foreign academics from visiting Palestinian institutions in Gaza and the West Bank [4]. We are also alarmed by the long history of confiscations of Palestinian archives and the destruction of libraries and research centres [5].

The on-going Israeli massacres in Gaza have been ghastly reminders of the complicity of Israeli academic institutions in the occupation and oppression of Palestinians. Tel Aviv University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Bar Ilan University, Haifa University, Technion, and Ben Gurion University have publicly declared their unconditional support for the Israeli military [6]. More generally, there are intimate connections between Israeli academic institutions and the military, security, and political establishments in Israel [7]. To take but one example: Tel Aviv University is directly implicated, through its Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), in developing the Dahiya Doctrine [8], adopted by the Israeli military in its assaults on Lebanon in 2006 and on Gaza today. The Dahiya Doctrine advocates the extensive destruction of civilian infrastructure and “intense suffering” among the civilian population as an “effective” means to subdue any resistance [9].

Our colleagues in the Israeli academy have been silent, by and large, in the face of such violence and injustice. We applaud the few dozen Israeli academics who have protested against their government, and the several dozen who signed a petition calling for an end to Israel’s bombardment of Gaza [10]. Alarmingly, they have faced disciplinary measures from their own universities [11]. We stand by these academics and support them in what is our joint struggle.

As Middle East scholars and librarians, we feel compelled to join the growing number of academics in Israel and around the world who support the Palestinian call to boycott Israeli academic institutions. This call responds to Palestinian civil society organizations’ long-standing appeal for the comprehensive implementation of boycotts, divestments and sanctions (BDS) of Israel, and is supported by the Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees (PFUUPE).

Following in the footsteps of the growing number of U.S. academic associations that have endorsed boycott resolutions [12], we call on our colleagues in Middle East Studies to boycott Israeli academic institutions, and we pledge not to collaborate on projects and events involving Israeli academic institutions, not to teach at or to attend conferences and other events at such institutions, and not to publish in academic journals based in Israel. We call for doing so until such time as these institutions end their complicity in violating Palestinian rights as stipulated in international law, and respect the full rights of Palestinians by calling on Israel to:

1. End its siege of Gaza, its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands occupied in June 1967, and dismantle the settlements and the walls;

2. Recognize the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel and the stateless Negev Bedouins to full equality; and

3. Respect, protect and promote the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN Resolution 194.

Notes

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/17/israeli-military-calorie-limit-gaza

[2] http://monitoring.academicfreedom.info/reports/2014-06-22-birzeit-university-arab-american-university-al-quds-university-palestine

[3] http://alrasedproject.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/alrased1_eng.pdf

[4] http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/2013/Education%20Report%20Academia%20Undermined%20May%202013.pdf

[5] Gish Amit, “Salvage or plunder? Israel’s ‘collection’ of private Palestinian libraries in West Jerusalem,” Journal of Palestine Studies 40 (July 2011): 6-23.

[6] http://www.shalomlife.com/business/24941/how-tel-aviv-university-supports-the-idf. Also, see the following: for Haifa University – https://www.facebook.com/HaifaUniversity/posts/10152140137120044; for Technion – https://www.facebook.com/Technion.Israel/photos/a.170241609659974.47375.149494148401387/906

054469412014/?type=1&theater; for Bar Ilan – https://www.facebook.com/barilanwall/photos/a.189536784430293.62558.120725437978095/7726621

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[7] Gil Eyal, “Military Establishment and Middle East Studies,” in The disenchantment of the Orient: Expertise in Arab Affairs and the Israeli State (Stanford University Press, 2008), 185-236. See also:

Keller, Uri Yacobi. “The Academic Boycott of Israel and the Complicity of Israeli Academic Institutions in Occupation of Palestinian Territories.” Alternative Information Center (http://electronicintifada.net/files/091214-academic-boycott.pdf)

[8] See The Goldstone Report, p. 24, and http://electronicintifada.net/files/090708-soas-palestine-society.pdf

[9] http://imeu.org/article/the-dahiya-doctrine-and-israels-use-of-disproportionate-force.

[10] http://haimbresheeth.com/gaza/an-open-letter-to-israel-academics-july-13th-2014/ and reported here: http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/handful-israeli-academics-responds-call-condemn- gaza-slaughter

[11] http://www.alternativenews.org/english/index.php/politics/israeli-sosaciety/3279-bar-ilan-university- discriminating-against-leftist-academics-3279

[12] These associations are: the Critical Ethnic Studies Association (CESA), African Literature Association (ALA), Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA), Association for Humanist Sociology (AHS), Association of Asian American Studies (AAAS), and American Studies Association (ASA).

Signatories

Saleh Abdel Jawad

Associate Professor of Political Science, Birzeit University

Nahla Abdo

Professor, Anthropology and Sociology Department, Carleton University

Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi

Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies/Race and Resistance Studies, San Francisco State University

Osama Abi-Mershed

Associate Professor, Department of History, Director, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University

Nadia Abu El-Haj

Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College – Columbia University

Lila Abu-Lughod

Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University

Gilbert Achcar

Professor of Development Studies and International Relations, SOAS, University of London

Fida Adely

Associate Professor, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Nadje Al-Ali

Professor of Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London

Fadwa Allabadi

Associate Professor, Insan Center for Gender Studies, Al-Quds University

Lori Allen

Lecturer, Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge

Gil Anidjar

Professor, Departments of Religion and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS), Columbia University

Sinan Antoon

Associate Professor, New York University

Talal Asad

Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, CUNY

Kamran Asdar Ali

Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin

Barbara Aswad

Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Wayne State University, and Past President of the Middle East Studies Association of North America

Cemil Aydin

Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Kathryn Babayan

Associate Professor, Director of the Center of Armenian Studies, University of Michigan

Mohammed Bamyeh

Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh

Asef Bayat

Catherine and Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies and Professor of Sociology and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Joel Beinin

Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History, Stanford University

George Bisharat

Professor, UC Hastings College of the Law

Marilyn Booth

Iraq Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Edinburgh

Glenn Bowman

Reader in Social Anthropology, Director of Research, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury

Haim Bresheeth

Senior Teaching Fellow, Centre for Media Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies

Michaelle Browers

Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Wake Forest University

Louise Cainkar

Associate Professor of Sociology, Marquette University

John Collins

Professor of Global Studies, St. Lawrence University

Miriam Cooke

Braxton Craven Professor of Arab Cultures, Duke University

Hamid Dabashi

Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Omar Dahi

Associate Professor of Economics, Hampshire College

Linda T. Darling

Professor of History, University of Arizona

Rochelle Davis

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Georgetown University

Lara Deeb

Professor of Anthropology, Scripps College

Omnia El Shakry

Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Davis

Samera Esmeir

Associate Professor, Department of Rhetoric, University of California-Berkeley

John L. Esposito

University Professor & Founding Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University

Khaled Fahmy

Professor of History, American University in Cairo

Richard Falk

Milbank Professor of International Law Emeritus, Princeton University

James C. Faris

Professor Emeritus, Anthropology; Director Emeritus, University of Connecticut Program in Middle East Languages and Area Studies

Mona Fawaz

Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, American University of Beirut

Ilana Feldman

Associate Professor, Anthropology, History and International Affairs, George Washington University

Nancy Gallagher

Research Professor, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

Honaida Ghanim

General Director,

The Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies (MADAR)

Farha Ghannam

Associate Professor, Anthropology, Swarthmore College

Amal Ghazal

Associate Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, Dalhousie University

Irene L. Gendzier

Professor Emeritus, Political Science, Boston University

George Giacaman

Associate Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Studies, Birzeit University

Yvonne Haddad

Professor of History of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations

Sherine Hafez

Associate Professor, Women’s Studies and Middle East & Islamic Studies, University of California, Riverside

Elaine Hagopian

Prof. Emerita of Sociology, Simmons College

Samira Haj

Professor of History, CUNY-GC/CSI

Sondra Hale

Research Professor/Professor Emerita, Departments of Anthropology and Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.

Wael B. Hallaq

Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University

Rema Hammami

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Birzeit University

Juliane Hammer

Associate Professor, Religious Studies Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Sari Hanafi

Professor of Sociology, American University of Beirut

Jens Hanssen

Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean History, Dpts. of History and Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto

Mona Harb

Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Politics, American University of Beirut

Barbara Harlow

Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor of English Literature, University of Texas at Austin

Frances S. Hasso

Associate Professor in Women’s Studies and Sociology and director, International Comparative Studies Program, Duke University

Charles Hirschkind

Associate Professor, Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Islah Jad

Associate Professor, Women’s Studies Institute, Bir Zeit University

Manal A. Jamal

Associate Professor of Political Science, James Madison University

Suad Joseph

Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Women’s Studies, University of California—Davis

Rhoda Kanaaneh

Adjunct Associate Professor, Middle East Instiute, Columbia University

Vangelis Kechriotis

Associate Professor of History, Boğazici University

Rashid Khalidi

Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies and Professor of History, Columbia University

Tarif Khalidi

Sheykh Zayed Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies, American University of Beirut

Laleh Khalili

Professor of Middle East Politics, SOAS, University of London

Ronit Lentin

Associate Professor, Sociology, Trinity College Dublin

Mark LeVine

Professor of Modern Middle Eastern Hitory, UC Irvine

Yosefa Loshitzky

Professorial Research Associate, School of Oriental and African Studies

Nur Masalha

Professor of Religion and Politics, St Mary’s University College, University of London

Brinkley Messick

Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University

Laurence Michalak

Emeritus Vice Chair, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California/Berkeley

Timothy Mitchell

Professor, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University

Amira Mittermaier

Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies and Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto

Karma Nabulsi

University Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, Fellow in Politics, St Edmund Hall

Eiji Nagasawa

Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo

Isis Nusair

Associate Professor of International Studies and Women’s Studies, Denison University

Roger Owen

A.J. Meyer Em. Professor of Middle East History, Harvard University

Ilan Pappe

Professor of History, Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies, University of Exeter

Laila Parsons

Associate Professor, Department of History and Classical Studies, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University

Gabriel Piterberg

Professor of Middle East History, UCLA

Shira Robinson

Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History, George Washington University

Adam Sabra

Professor of History and King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies,

University of California

George Saliba

Professor of Arabic and Islamic Science Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University

Ihab Saloul

Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Amsterdam

Nisreen Salti

Associate professor of Economics, American University of Beirut

Aseel Sawalha

Associate Professor, Anthropology, Fordham University

Rosemary Sayigh

Visiting Professor at the Center for Arab and Middle East Studies, American University of Beirut

Kirsten Scheid

Associate Professor of Anthropology, American University of Beirut

Paul Sedra

Associate Professor of Middle East History, Simon Fraser University

May Seikaly

Associate Professor of Modern Middle East History, Wayne State University

Elyse Semerdjian

Associate Professor of History, Whitman College

Anton Shammas

Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan

Stephen Sheehi

Sultan Qaboos bin Said Chair of Middle East Studies, College of William and Mary

Todd Shepard

Associate Professor, History, John Hopkins University

Magid Shihade

Birzeit University

Lisa Taraki

Associate Professor of Sociology, Birzeit University

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi

Professor of History, Historical Studies & Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto

Judith E. Tucker

Professor of History, Georgetown University

Lisa Wedeen

Mary R. Morton Professor of Political Science and the College, The University of Chicago

Jessica Winegar

Associate Professor, Anthropology, Northwestern University

**Institutional Affiliations are for identification purposes only.

Update:

This statement is now up to over 400 signatures. Here are the new additions:

Mona Abaza

Professor of Sociology, American University in Cairo

Tahia Abdel Nasser

Assistant Professor, English and Comparative Literature, American University in Cairo

Maha Abdelrahman

Lecturer in Development Studies, University of Cambridge

Sanabel Abdelrahman

Near and Middle East Civilization, University of Toronto

Sawsan Abdulrahim

Associate Professor, American University of Beirut

Bassam Abed

Clinical Professor of Social Science, McGhee Division, New York University

Malek Abisaab

Associate Professor, Department of History and Classical Studies, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University

Reem Abou-El-Fadl

Lecturer, School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University

Saed Abu-Hijleh

Lecturer of Political Geography, An-Najah National University

Bashir Abu-Manneh

Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Brown University

Lama Abu Odeh

Law Professor, Georgetown Law Center

Giuseppe Acconcia

Researcher, University of Pavia

Nassef Manabilang Adiong

Co-Founder and PhD Candidate, International Relations and Islamic Studies Research Cohort, Middle East Technical University, and Alliance of Civilizations Institute

Fawzia Afzal-Khan

Professor and Director, Women and Gender Studies, Montclair State University

Khalil Agha

Researcher, University of Northampton

Alzahraa Ahmed

PhD Student, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Elif Aksit

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Ankara University

Talal Al-Azem

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford

Abdul-Rahim Al-Shaikh

Associate Professor of Philosophy, Cultural and Arab Studies, Birzeit University

Najwa al-Qattan

Associate Professor, Loyola Marymount University

Samer Alatout

Associate Professor, Department of Community & Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Samia AlBotmeh

Assistant Professor, Centre for Development Studies, Birzeit University

Ammiel Alcalay

Professor, Classical, Middle Eastern & Asian Languages & Cultures, Queens College, CUNY

Anthony Alessandrini

Associate Professor, Kingsborough Community College-CUNY and the CUNY Graduate Center

Nadia Ali

Post-doctoral Researcher in Islamic Arts, Khalili Research Centre and British Museum

Minoo Alinia

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, Sweden

Dina AlKassim

Associate Professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Samirah Alkassim

Assistant Professor, Department of Performing & Visual Arts, American University in Cairo (formerly)

Diana Allan

Melon Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University

Jamie Allinson

Lecturer, Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster

Ghada alMadbouh

Assistant Professor, Birzeit University

Omar AlShehabi

Director, Gulf Centre for Development Policies

Evelyn Alsultany

Associate Professor, American Culture, University of Michigan

Seda Altug

Assistant Professor, Bogazici Universtity

Valérie Amiraux

Professor of Sociology, Canada Research Chair for the Study of Religious Pluralism, University of Montreal

Ovamir Anjum

Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Toledo

Zayde Antrim

Associate Professor of History and International Studies, Trinity College

Ibrahim Aoude

Professor, University of Hawai‘i

Ramazan Aras

Assıstant Professor, Mardin Artuklu University

Nurullah Ardic

Associate Professor, Istanbul Sehir University

Walter Armbrust

Associate Professor of Modern Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford

Sahar Assaf

Fine Arts and Art History, American University of Beirut

Margot Badran

Senior Fellow, Georgetown University

Christine Baker

Assistant Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Mona Baker

Professor of Translation Studies, University of Manchester, UK

Lamia Balafrej

Assistant Professor, Art Department, Wellesley College

Grégoire Bali

Teaching Faculty Member, University of Geneva—Faculty of Translation and Interpretation

Mariam Banahi

PhD Student, Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University

Lauren Banko

Senior Teaching Fellow, SOAS, University of London

Halim Barakat

Retired Professor, Georgetown University

Gustavo Barbosa

PhD in Anthropology, Independent Researcher

Ryvka Barnard

PhD Candidate, New York University

Betul Basaran

Associate Professor of Religious Studies, St. Mary’s College of Maryland

Bahar Baser

Postdoctoral Fellow, Warwick University

Hatem Bazian

Lecturer, Near Eastern Studies and Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley and Zaytuna College

Sahar Bazzaz

Associate Professor, Department of History, College of the Holy Cross

Naoual Belakhdar

Research Associate and Lecturer in Political Science, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics/Free University of Berlin

Imene Bennani

Assistant Department of English, University of Kairouan

Francesca Biancani

Adjunct Professor, University of Bologna

Laura Bier

Associate Professor of History, Georgia Tech

Elizabeth Bishop

Associate Professor, Texas State University

Koen Bogaert

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Ghent University

Jonathan Brown

Associate Professor, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Khaldun Bshara

Director, Riwaq Centre

Ray Bush

Professor of African Studies and Development Politics, University of Leeds

Charles Butterworth

Emeritus Professor, University of Maryland

Marina Calculli

Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Oxford

Sheila Carapico

Professor of Political Science and International Studies, University of Richmond

Josh Carney

PhD Candidate, Communication and Culture, Indiana University

Yousef Casewit

Assistant Professor of Arabic intellectual Heritage and Culture, American University of Sharjah

Jad Chaaban

Associate Professor of Economics, American University of Beirut

Wilson Chacko Jacob

Associate Professor, Department of History, Concordia University

Ananya Chakravarti

Abdelhadi H. Taher Professor of Comparative Religion/Assistant Professor, Department of History, The American University in Cairo

Claudia Chaufan

Associate Professor, Health Policy and Sociology, University of California-San Francisco

Anuradha Mitra Chenoy

Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Kamal Aron Mitra Chenoy

Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Rachida Chih

Senior Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Christina Civantos

Associate Professor, University of Miami

Anne Clement

Assistant Professor of History & International Studies, North Carolina State University

Elliott Colla

Associate Professor, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Georgetown University

John Cooper

Lecturer, University of Exeter

Stephanie Cronin

Departmental Lecturer, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford

Jeffrey Culang

Doctoral Candidate, City University of New York Graduate Center

Nabil Dajani

Professor of Media Studies, American University of Beirut

Ahmad Dallal

Professor of History, American University of Beirut

Mona Damluji

Postdoctoral Fellow, Wheaton College

Karam Dana

Assistant Professor, University of Washington-Bothell

Claudine Dauphin

Honorary Professor, Archaeology and Theology, Scholar of Byzantine and Early Islamic Palestine, University of Wales

Lawrence Davidson

Professor of History, Department of History, West Chester University

Pascal Debruyne

Postdoctoral Researcher, MENARG Ghent University, Ghent University

Chiara De Cesari

Assistant Professor, Cultural Studies, University of Amsterdam

Anne de Jong

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam

Jocelyn DeJong

Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut

Jennifer Derr

Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California, Santa Cruz

Chloe Diamond-Lenow

Doctoral Candidate, Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Fred M. Donner

Professor of Near Eastern History, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, The University of Chicago

Beshara Doumani

Joukowsky Family Professor of Modern Middle East History, Brown University

Laura Doyle

Professor of English, University of Massachusetts

Sahar Driver

Anthropology and Social Change, California Institute of Integral Studies

Dalia Ebeid

Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Cairo University

Mastan Ebtehaj

Librarian, The Middle East Centre, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University

Shahida A. El-Baz

Director, Arab and African Research Centre, Egypt

Youssef El Chazli

Graduate Assistant, University of Lausanne/University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne

Walid El Hamamsy

Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies, English Department., Cairo University

Mourad El Khatibi

Doctoral Candidate, Mohamed 5 university, Rabat, Morocco

Saker El Nour

Faculty of Agriculture, South Valley University

Rayya El Zein

PhD Candidate, Theater, CUNY Graduate Center

Dima El-Halabi

Instructor and Coordinated Program Assistant Director, Department of Nutrition and Food Science, American University of Beirut

Tamer El-Leithy

Assistant Professor of History, Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, New York University

Tammer El-Sheikh

Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University

Alexander Elinson

Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature, Department of Classical and Oriental Studies, Hunter College (CUNY)

Hoda Elsadda

Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Cairo University

Sarah Eltantawi

Assistant Professor, Evergreen State College

Hend Eltaweel

Graduate Student, Middle East Studies Center, The American University in Cairo

Anita Fabos

Associate Professor, Department of International Development, Community, and Environment, Clark University

Elizabeth Faier

Independent Scholar

Farideh Farhi

Lecturer and Affiliate Graduate Faculty of Political Science, University of Hawai’i at Manoa

Laila Farhood

Professor, American University of Beirut

Hani Faris

Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia

Leila Farsakh

Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Boston

Mary Ann Fay

Associate Professor of History, Morgan State University

Mahmoud Fayyad

Assistant Professor, Birzeit University

Maria Fernandez-Vivancos Marquina

Middle East Studies Center, American University in Cairo

Ellen Fleischmann

Professor, Department of History, University of Dayton

Alexander Flores

Professor, Middle East Studies, Hochschule Bremen

Vassilis Fouskas

Professor of International Politics & Economics, University of East London

Layal Ftouni

Visiting Lecturer/Senior Teaching Fellow, SOAS, University of London

Zeynep Gambetti

Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Boğazici University, Istanbul

Dina Georgis

Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto

Zeina Ghandour

Professor, Birkbeck, London University

Fanny Gillet

Doctorante, EHESS, Paris

Terri Ginsberg

International Council for Middle East Studies, USA

Rohit Goel

PhD Candidate, University of Chicago

Camilo Gomez-Rivas

Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz

Nina Gren

PhD in Social Anthropology, Centre of Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University

Molly Greene

Professor, Princeton University

Zareena Grewal

Assistant Professor of American Studies and Religious Studies, Faculty at Council on Middle East Studies, Yale University

Maryam Griffin

PhD Candidate in Sociology, University of California-Santa Barbara

Sarah Gualtieri

Associate Professor of History and American Studies, University of Southern California

Magdi Guirguis

Assistant professor, Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt

Turgay Gunduz

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Uludag University

Vivek Gupta

PhD Student, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University

Dimitri Gutas

Professor of Arabic, Yale University

Bassam Haddad

Associate Professor, Department of Public and International Affairs, George Mason University

Ghassan Hage

Professor, University of Melbourne

Zaki Haidar

Visiting Lecturer of Arabic, Carleton College

Serra Hakyemez

Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University

Ali Hammoudi

PhD Candidate, Osgoode Hall Law School

Dyala Hamzah

Professor, Department of History, University of Montreal

Adam Hanieh

Senior Lecturer, Development Studies, SOAS, University of London

Lara Harb

Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College

Sirene Harb

Associate Professor, American University of Beirut

Michelle Hartman

Associate Professor, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University

Magda Hassan

PhD, University of Cambridge

Salah Hassan

Associate Professor, Michigan State University

Amir Hassanpour

Associate Prof. (Ret.), University of Toronto

Rima Hassouneh

Lecturer II, Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Gretchen Head

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Linda Herrera

Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Alaa Hijazi

Assistant Professor of Psychology, American University of Beirut

Engseng Ho

Professor, Department of Anthropology, Duke University

Clive Holes

Khalid bin Abdullah Al Sa’ud Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, UK

Uri Horesh

Assistant Professor of Instruction, Middle East and North African Studies, Northwestern University

Lamya Hussain

Member for Centre of Palestine Studies, SOAS, University of London

Adel Iskandar

Assistant Professor fo Global Communication, Simon Fraser University

Ammar Jan

Doctoral Candidate, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge

Toby Jones

Associate Professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Ray Jureidini

Professor of Sociology, Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics, Doha, Qatar

Amy Kallander

Associate Professor of Middle East History, Syracuse University

Ousmane Kane

Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society, Harvard Divinity School

Ahmed Kanna

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, School of International Studies, University of the Pacific

Tomis Kapitan

Professor (Emeritus), Philosophy Department, Northern Illinois University

Lidwien Kapteijns

Professor of History, Wellesley College

Rima Karami

Associate Professor, American University of Beirut

Paul Kelemen

Honorary Research Fellow, University of Manchester

Ferhat Kentel

Professor of Sociology, Istanbul Sehir University

Arang Keshavarzian

Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University

Muhammad Ali Khalidi

Associate Professor, Philosophy, York University, Toronto

Muqtedar Khan

Associate Professor, University of Delaware

Yasmine Khayyat

Assistant Professor, African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures, Rutgers University

Issam Khoury

Associate Academic Dean, Center for International Learning, Oman

Ilham Khuri-Makdisi

Associate Professor of History, Northeastern University

Laurie King

Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Georgetown University

Abdulhamit Kırmızı

Chair of History Department, Istanbul Şehir University

Marcy Knopf-Newman

Independent Scholar

Nikolas Kosmatopoulos

Lecturer, Ecole Federale Polytechnique de Lausanne

Elektra Kostopoulou

Lecturer, Rutgers University

Murat Koyuncu

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Bogazici University

Marieke Krijnen

PhD Student, Ghent University

Patricia Kubala

PhD Student, UC Berkeley

Bülent Kücük

Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, Boğazici University

Blair Kuntz

Near and Middle Eastern Studies Librarian, University of Toronto

Eileen Kuttab

Associate Professor of Sociology, Institute of Women Studies, Birzeit University

Nora Lafi

Professor of History, Zentrum Moderner Orient

Robert Lang

Professor of Cinema, University of Hartford

Smadar Lavie

Scholar in Residence, Beatrice Bain Research Group, University of California-Berkeley

Joseph Lombardo

Doctoral Candidate, The New School for Social Research

Haiyun Ma

Assistant Professor, Department of History, Frostburg State University

Zeina Maasri

Associate Professor, American University of Beirut / University of Brighton

Ramzi Mabsout

Assistant Professor, American University of Beirut

Saba Mahmood

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

Sunaina Maira

Professor, University of California, Davis

Lisa Suhair Majaj

Independent Scholar, University of Cyprus

Rima Majed

PhD Candidate, University of Oxford

Neepa Majumdar

Associate Professor, Film Studies and English, University of Pittsburgh

Dina Makram-Ebeid

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Harriet Malinowitz

Professor of English, Long Island University

Mahmood Mamdani

Professor, Department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University

Mazen Masri

Lecturer, City Law School, City University London

Rania Masri

Assistant Professor, University of Balamand

Dina Matar

Senior Lecturer in Political Communication, School of Oriental and African Studies

Kamran Matin

Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Sussex University

Afshin Matin-asgari

California State University

Khaled Mattawa

Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Michigan

James McDougall

Associate Professor of Modern History, Fellow of Trinity College, University of Oxford

Khalid Mustafa Medani

Associate Professor, McGill University

Anne Meneley

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Trent University

Adam Mestyan

Junior Fellow, Harvard University

Jeannie Miller

Assistant Professor, Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto

Minoo Moallem

Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies, University of California-Berkeley

Lamia Moghnieh

PhD candidate, University of Michigan

Shahrzad Mojab

Professor/OISE, University of Toronto

Linda Mokdad

Assistant Professor, St. Olaf College

Annelies Moors

Professor, University of Amsterdam

Manijeh Moradian

Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University

Hiba Morcos

PhD Student, University of British Columbia

Mohammed Mossallem

Researcher/Graduate Student, University of Oxford

Dalia Mostafa

Lecturer in Arabic and Comparative Literature, Middle Eastern Studies, University of Manchester

Mariam Motamedi Fraser

Reader (Associate Professor), Goldsmiths, University of London

Aamir Mufti

Associate Professor, UCLA

Elias Muhanna

Manning Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Brown University

Corinna Mullin

Professor, University of Tunis

Research Associate, School of Oriental and African Studies

Martha Mundy

Professor Emerita of Anthropology, London School of Economics

Esra Mungan

Assistant Professor, Boğaziçi University

Cynthia Myntti

Professor of Public Health Practice, American University of Beirut

Nadine Naber

Associate Professor, University of Illinois

Shuruq Naguib

Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Lancaster University

Aseel Nasir-Dyck

Independent Scholar

Mona Nasrallah

Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut

Issam Nassar

Professor of Middle East History, Illinois State University

Jamal Nassar

Dean, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, California State University

Helena Nassif

PhD Candidate, University of Westminster

Anne Norton

Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania

Michelle Obeid

Lecturer, Social Anthropology, University of Manchester

Hussein Omar

Doctoral Candidate, University of Oxford

Cagla Orpen

PhD Student in Politics and History, NSSR

Arzoo Osanloo

Associate Professor, Law, Societies, and Justice, University of Washington

Michelle Pace

Professor (MSO) on Europe and the Middle East, Roskilde University

Stefania Pandolfo

Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley

Christopher Parker

Associate Professor, Ghent University

Nigel Parsons

Senior Lecturer, Politics Program, Massey University

Alessandro Petti

Campus in Camps, Al Quds University

Coralie Pison Hindawi

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Studies and Public Administration, American University of Beirut

Graham Pitts

PhD Candidate, Department of History, Georgetown University

Leila Pourtavaf

PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Toronto

Vijay Prashad

Professor of International Studies, Trinity College

Nicola Pratt

Reader, International Politics of the Middle East Department of Politics & International Studies, University of Warwick

Michael Provence

Associate Professor of History, University of California, San Diego

Jasbir Puar

Associate Professor, Rutgers University

Nicolas Puig

Reseacher in Anthropology, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

Sara Pursley

Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows, Princeton University

Linda Quiquivix

PhD in Geography, Independent Scholar

Mazin Qumsiyeh

Professor, Bethlehem University

Noha Radwan

Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, University of California, Davis

Najat Rahman

Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, University of Montreal

Dina A. Ramadan

Assistant Professor of Arabic, Bard College

Yasmine Ramadan

Assistant Professor of Arabic, The University of Iowa

Jeremy Randall

Doctoral Student, CUNY Graduate Center



Chandan Reddy

Associate Professor, University of Washington

Scott Reese

Professor of History, Northern Arizona University

John Reynolds

Lecturer, Department of Law, National University of Ireland.

Qaiser Riaz

PhD Candidate, University of Bonn

Dina Rizk Khoury

Professor of History, George Washington University

Sajjad Rizvi

Associate Professor of Islamic Intellectual History, University of Exeter

Amanda Rogers

Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Vincent Romani

Professor, Political Science, UQAM

Caroline Rooney

Professor of African and Middle Eastern Studies, Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Research, University of Kent

Jasamin Rostam

Department of History, California State University

Umar Ryad

Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Utrecht University

Sardar Saadi

PhD Student, University of Toronto

Karim Sadek

PhD, American University of Beirut

Christa Salamandra

Associate Professor of Anthropology, City University of New York

Josefina Saldaña

Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University

Emmanuelle Salgues

Visiting Assistant Professor, American University in Cairo

Sara Salih

Professor, University of Toronto

Ruba Salih

Professor, University of London

Jeremy Salt

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Bilkent University

Dima Samaha

Lecturer, Université Saint-Joseph

Louis-Georges Schwartz

Associate Professor, Ohio University

Berivan Sarikayaa

PhD Candidate, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

Sherene Seikaly

Assistant Professor, History, University of California, Santa Barbara

Samah Selim

Associate Professor, Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures, Rutgers University

Banu Senay

Lecturer, Macquaie University

Beth Seymour

Instructor of Anthropology, Communications, History and Women’s Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, Altoona College

Nada Shabout

Professor of Art History, University of North Texas

Noa Shaindlinger

PhD Candidate, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto

Sima Shakhsari

Assistant Professor, Wellesley College

Amr Shalakany

Associate Professor of Law, American University in Cairo

Tarek Shamma

Assistant Professor, Translation and Interpreting Institute

Simona Sharoni

Professor, SUNY-Plattsburgh

Deen Sharp

PhD Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center

Douaa Sheet

Doctoral Student, CUNY Graduate Center

Sarah Shields

Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Ella Shohat

Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies; Professor, Art and Public Policy, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Eyal Sivan

Honorary Fellow, European Institute for Palestine Studies

Susan Slyomovics

Professor Anthropology UCLA

Sharon C. Smith

Program Head, Aga Khan Documentation Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Angelo Stefanini

Senior Researcher, Centre for International Health, University of Bologna

Ann Laura Stoler

Willy Brandt Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies, New School for Social Research

Christopher Stone

Associate Professor, Hunter College (CUNY)

Mayssun Succarie

Fellow, Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University

Aditi Surie von Czechowski

PhD candidate, Columbia University

Javad Taherinezhad

Lecturer, Bu Ali Sina University

Abdel Razzaq Takriti

Lecturer in International History, University of Sheffield

Adam Talib

Assistant Professor, classical Arabic literature, The American University in Cairo

Tariq Tell

Political Science and Public Administration, American University of Beirut

Sunera Thobani

Associate Professor, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, University of British Columbia

Julia Tierney

PhD Student, UC Berkeley

Hanan Toukan

Postdoctoral Fellow, Free University Berlin

Zülal Nazan Üstündağ

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Boğaziçi University

Abbas Vali

Professor, Department of Sociology, Boğazici University

Kathy Wazana

Documentary Filmmaker, Independent Documentarian

David Wearing

PhD Candidate, Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London

Max Weiss

Associate Professor of History and Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University

Mark Westmoreland

Post doctorate, Media Studies, Stockholm University

John Willis

Associate Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder

Katherine Wilson

Adjunct Instructor, City University of New York

Patrick Wolfe

Historian, Australia

Lisa Wynn

Associate Professor of Anthropology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Nadia Yaqub

Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Anna-Esther Younes

PhD Candidate, Graduate Institute of International Studies (IHEID), Geneva

May Zahri

Associate Professor, University of Damascus