Authors

Lima Shawa was born in Gaza and now lives in Amman, Jordan. She has three children.  

Linda Sarsour is a Brooklyn-born Palestinian Muslim American community activist and mother of three. Recognized for her award-winning intersectional work, she served as national co-chair of the Women’s March, helping to organize the...

LISA DALE is a British lawyer who spent 25 years working in legal practice, including 16 years based in Dubai and covering the Middle East region. Her interest in Palestine dates back to 1988, when she first travelled there for undergraduate...

Livia Wick is associate professor of anthropology in the Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies department at the American University of Beirut.

Lorenzo Kamel is a Middle Eastern historian. He is Research Fellow at Harvard University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Senior Researcher at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI). He published six books on Middle Eastern and...

Lori Allen is lecturer in Anthropology of the Near and Middle East at SOAS, University of London. Her work explores Palestinian politics, and the anthropology of nationalism, violence, gender, and human rights.

Lotte Buch Segal is an assistant professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. For the last ten years she has worked on issues of endurance, violence and subjectivity in Arab families affected by conflict, both those who...

Louisa Waugh is a writer and human rights advocate. She currently lives in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic where she works for an International NGO.

Lynn Welchman is Professor of Law in the Middle East and North Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She worked in different capacities with al-Haq from the early 1980s.

Maggie Schmitt is a freelance writer, researcher, translator, educator, and social activist. She works in various writing, production, photography and film projects.