Birth: 4/1/1975 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in the Galilee on 4 Jan. 1957; received a BA in International Relations and Politics (1979) and an MA in Politics (1983) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; worked as a teaching and research assistant at the Hebrew University’s Dept. of Political Science of Jerusalem from 1979-82; was a part-time lecturer in Middle East Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, from 1985-86 and earned a PhD in Middle Eastern Politics from SOAS in 1988; was a Constantine Zureik Research Fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS), Washington, DC, from 1989-94; Honorary Fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Durham, UK, from 1993-97; in 1994-95 also worked as Assistant Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at Birzeit University; became lecturer in International Relations of the Middle East, Richmond American International University, London, in 1997 (until 2000); then Visiting Lecturer (2000-2001) and Research Fellow (2001-2002) at the Dept. of Theology and Religious Studies at St. Mary’s College, University of Surrey, UK; was a Research Associate at the Center of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, SOAS, from 2000-2004; since Feb. 2001, Director of Holy Land Studies and a PhD program on Holy Land and Palestine Studies at St. Mary’s College; since Jan. 2005, Director of the Postgraduate Program in Religion and Conflict at St. Mary’s College; among his many publications are Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of ‘Transfer’ in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948 (IPS, 1992), The Palestinians in Israel (Nazareth: The Galilee Centre for Social Research, 1993), Imperial Israel and the Palestinians: The Politics of Expansion, 1967-2000 (London: Pluto Press, 2000), The Politics of Denial: Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem (London: Pluto Press, 2003), and, most recently, editor of Catastrophe Remembered: Palestine, Israel and the Internal Refugees: Essays in Memory of Edward W. Said (London: Zed Books, Aug. 2005).
