Birth: NULL/NULL/1939 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Acre in 1939; left to the US, then to Canada; received a BA in Political Science from San Francisco University, an MA in Sociology from Simon Fraser University in Canada and a PhD in Political Sociology from Essex University in the UK; Professor of Sociology at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario since 1971; author of numerous articles and books, incl. The Palestinians in Israel: A Study in Internal Colonialism (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979) and Palestinian Refugees and the Peace Process (1996); co-editor of Sociology of the Palestinians (St. Martin’s Press, 1980), and Public Opinion and the Palestine Question (St. Martin’s Press, 1987); member of the Palestinian delegation to the Refugee Working Group of the Multilateral Talks of the Middle East peace process since 1992; held posts as a visiting professor at the University of Toronto, Birzeit University, Kuwait University, and at Essex University; recipient of several fellowships, scholarships, grants, and consulting assignments; conducted research and served as a consultant for the Canadian Government, UNESCO, the UN on the Question of Palestine, the Norwegian Institute for Applied Social Science, and the Ontario Human Rights Commission; Board of Trustees member of Shaml, the Palestinian Diaspora and Refugee Center in Ramallah; received the Palestine National Award in Sociology; was appointed by the Sharjah Women’s Higher College of Technology as the first holder of the UNESCO Chair in Applied Research in Education in early 2005; currently coordinates a research project that is funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council concerning computer/internet surveillance and privacy in 11 countries.
