Born in Jerusalem in 1929, Reja-e Busailah completed his secondary education in Palestine before earning a BA in English literature from Cairo University and a PhD in the same field from New York University. He taught that subject for thirty years...
Richard Falk is a leading international law professor, prominent activist, prolific author, and a pioneer thinker dedicated to peace and justice. During forty years at Princeton University Falk was active in seeking an end to the Vietnam War, a...
Richard Hardigan is the pen name of a professor based in California. He has spent several years teaching and lecturing at various universities in the Middle East. In 2011 he was caught up in the Tahrir Square uprising in Cairo. He has worked...
Rifk Ebeid is a Palestinian writer and human rights advocate, and currently works as a Pediatric Speech Language Pathologist. Ebeid has a JD from George Mason University, an MA in Human Rights Studies from Columbia University, an MA in...
Roger Hardy was for more than twenty years a Middle East analyst with the BBC World Service. He is the author of two earlier books—The Muslim Revolt: A Journey through Political Islam and The Poisoned Well: Empire and Its Legacy in the...
Ronit Lentin is former associate professor of sociology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She has published extensively on Palestine-Israel, racism and immigration in Ireland.
Her books include: Conversations with Palestinian Women (1980),...
Rosemary Sayigh is a renowned journalist and scholar of Middle Eastern history, having published ground-breaking works on the Palestinian people including Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries (1979) and Too Many Enemies: The Palestinian...
Ru Freeman is a Sri Lankan born author and activist, and is the author of the novels A Disobedient Girl (Atria/Simon & Schuster, 2009) and On Sal Mal Lane (Graywolf, 2013), a New York Times Editor's Choice Book. She...
For over four decades, events in Palestine-Israel have provoked raging conflicts within British universities around issues of free speech, 'extremism', antisemitism and Islamophobia. But why is this conflict so significant for student activists...
