Summary

Director of the Center for Development Studies at Birzeit University when it launched, in 2013, the research program on alternative models for state formation in Palestine from which Rethinking Statehood in Palestine grew (Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, PDF p.12).

Details

  • The program under her directorship explored Palestinian understandings of statehood, democracy and citizenship after the Arab uprisings and the failure of Oslo, and commissioned a survey of Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel on the One-state solution (PDF p.12).
  • She was originally to be coeditor of the book with Leila Farsakh but could not remain, after becoming dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics at Birzeit (PDF p.12).

Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, Leila Farsakh, Center for Development Studies, Birzeit University