Authors

Issam Nassar is a Palestinian historian of photography and the Middle East. He is associate professor of History at Illinois State University and a research fellow at the Institute of Jerusalem Studies. Nassar is also associate editor of the...

Izzeldin Abuelaish is a Palestinian medical doctor and author. Abulaish was born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza. He founded the "Daughters for Life Foundation" in memory of three of his daughters, who were killed by Israeli tank fire...

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra was a Palestinian-Iraqi writer, translator and artist. Born in Adana in 1919, he grew up in Bethlehem and Jerusalem, studying at the Government Arab College and winning a British Council scholarship to obtain an undergraduate...

Jacob J Nammar was born in Jerusalem and is a retired Vice President of the Friedrich Air Conditioning Company.

Jacob Norris is Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern History at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Land of Progress: Palestine in the Age of Colonial Development, 1905–1948 (2013) and codeveloper of the website Planet...

James Fergusson is a freelance journalist and foreign correspondent who has written for many publications, including The Independent, The Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail, and The Economist. He is the author of seven books, including the...

Jamie Stern-Weiner is a graduate student in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford. A dual British-Israeli national, he is a freelance researcher and editor and was founding co-editor of New Left Project.

Jasmine Donahaye worked in the publishing sector before joining the English Department at Swansea University, where she is now a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing. Her previous books include a biography of Welsh-Jewish author Lily...

Jayyab Abusafia is a London-based journalist from Jabalia refugee camp in the north of Gaza. He was formerly Sky News Arabia’s senior reporter in London and a senior news presenter at Alghad TV.

Jean-Pierre Filiu is professor of Middle East Studies at Sciences Po, Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA). He has held visiting professorships both at Columbia and Georgetown. Hurst (London) and Oxford University Press (New-York) have...