Authors

Salim Tamari

Co- Author Salim Tamari is a Palestinian Sociologist from Jaffa. Tamari studied in in Birzeit College in the West Bank and earned a Ph.D in Sociology from the University of Manchester.  He is the director of the Institute of Palestine Studies...

Salim Tamari

Salim Tamari is Professor of Sociology at Birzeit University, Palestine, Director of the Institute of Jerusalem Studies, and the author of Mountain against the Sea and Year of the Locust.  

Salim Tamari

Salim Tamari is a Palestinian sociologist who is the director of the Institute of Palestine Studies and an adjunct professor at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Modern...

Salman Abu Sitta

Salman Abu Sitta was born in 1937 in Ma‘in Abu Sitta, in the Beersheba district of mandate Palestine. An engineer by profession, he is best known for his cartographic work on Palestine and his work on the Palestinian Right of Return. He...

Samah Sabawi

Samah Sabawi is Palestinian-Canadian-Australian writer, commentator and playwright. She is a policy advisor to the Palestinian policy network, AlShabaka, and former public advocate for Australians for Palestine and held the position of Executive...

Samia Halaby

Born in Jerusalem in 1936, Samia Halaby is a leading abstract painter and an influential scholar of Palestinian art. Influenced by the Soviet avant-garde, Halaby works with the conviction that abstraction is based in reality, and has not been...

Samia Nasir Khoury

Samia was born in Jaffa, Palestine in 1933. She graduated from Birzeit College in 1950 and gained a BA degree from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. Khoury has gained recognition as an active community member from local NGOS and the...

Samira Azzam

Samira Azzam was born in Acre, Palestine in 1927. After completing her basic education, she found work as a schoolteacher at 16, and was later appointed headmistress of a girls’ school. She was still in her teens when her stories began to...

Samuel Wilder is a translator of Arabic literature, a writer and a student of comparative poetics. Since 2006, he has lived and worked as a literary translator in Cairo and Beirut, and pursued academic work in London and Cambridge. While a student...

Sandy Tolan

Sandy Tolan is a teacher and radio documentary producer and the author of The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East ). Sandy has reported from more than 30 countries, especially in the Middle East, Latin America, the...