Summary
Historian of modern Palestine and author of the Al-Shabaka policy brief The Case for Palestinian Nationality (2022), which argues that over seven million exiled Palestinians hold a right to Palestinian nationality under the Treaty of Lausanne and proposes that the PLO and the diaspora activate it through forums, a population registry and a comprehensive nationality law (The Case for Palestinian Nationality, lines 141-163).
Details
- Bawalsa is Associate Editor with the Journal of Palestine Studies, served as Al-Shabaka’s commissioning editor from 2020-2023, and is the author of Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948 (Stanford University Press, 2022), from which the brief’s historical sections are drawn (lines 257, 269).
- His other work has appeared in the Jerusalem Quarterly, the Journal of Palestine Studies, NACLA Report on the Americas, and in edited volumes; he earned a joint doctorate in History and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies from New York University in 2017 and a Master’s in Arab Studies from Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies in 2010, and held a PARC-NEH fellowship in Palestine in 2019-2020 (line 269).
- The brief’s legal and political analysis is in part based on an interview he conducted with Susan M. Akram, which he transcribed and edited (line 255).
Related pages
The Case for Palestinian Nationality, Al-Shabaka, Palestinian nationality, Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948, Susan M. Akram