Summary
Author of Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization (2021), who worked intermittently with Al-Haq from 1983 to 1993 (Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization, PDF p.7, p.18).
Details
- She was recruited to LSM in 1983 by Charles Shammas and was invited by Shawan Jabarin to write the history, drawing on al-Haq, ICJ and Amnesty archives and interviews with formative-period staff (PDF p.14, p.18-19).
- She describes her position as insider/outsider and states the work was not “participant observation”: “I was working there, and those were different times” (PDF p.18).
- The book is “an attempt at a history, not the history, of al-Haq”, a project lived with since 2009 (PDF p.16).
Related pages
Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization, Al-Haq