Leila Farsakh (Arabic: ليلى فرسخ) (born 1967) is a Palestinian political economist who was born in Jordan and is a Professor of Political Science at University of Massachusetts Boston.[1] Her area of expertise is Middle East Politics, Comparative Politics, and the Politics of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Farsakh holds a MPhil from the University of Cambridge, UK (1990) and a PhD from the University of London (2003).[1]

Farsakh conducted post-doctoral research at Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and was a research affiliate at the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1]

She has worked with a number of organizations, including the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris (1993 - 1996) and the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute in Ramallah (1998 - 1999).[2]

In 2001, she won the Peace and Justice Award from the Cambridge Peace Commission in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[2]

Farsakh was member of the editorial Board for the Journal Of Palestine Studies (2008-2020) and was the Project Co-Director for Jerusalem 2050, a problem-solving project jointly sponsored by Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the Center for International Studies.[3] She has written extensively on issues related to the Palestinian economy and the Oslo peace process, international migration and regional integration.[3]

Farsakh was also a member of the Board at the non-governmental organization RESIST (www.resistinc.org), founded in 1967 to provide grant money and support to grassroots movements advocating for social change.[4]

Selected publications

Books (partial list)

  • Rethinking Statehood in Palestine: Self-Determination and Decolonization Beyond Partition (University of California Press, 2021)https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520385627/rethinking-statehood-in-palestine
  • Palestinian Labour Migration to Israel: Labour, Land, and Occupation (2005). Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom. ISBN 0-415-33356-3.[5]
  • The Arab and Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond (Columbia University Press, 2020) co-edited with Bashir Bashir, http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-arab-and-jewish-questions/9780231199216
  • Commemorating the Naksa, Evoking the Nakba, (guest editor), Electronic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Spring 2008, MIT, Boston, 2008.
  • Development Strategies, Employment and International Migration, (co-edited with David O’Connor), OECD Development Center Publications, Paris, 1996.
  • Palestinian Employment in Israel: 1967-1997 (1998). Ramallah.
  • Rethinking Statehood in Palestine: Self-Determination and Decolonization Beyond Partition (2021). University of California Press.[6]

Articles (partial list)

Public lectures

References

  1. 1 2 3 "UMass Boston Political Scientist Focuses on a New Civic Blueprint for Jerusalem". University of Massachusetts Boston. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
  2. 1 2 "Political Science Faculty". University of Massachusetts Boston. Archived from the original on 2008-10-13. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
  3. 1 2 "People". Jerusalem 2050. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
  4. ↑ "Board & Staff". RESIST. Archived from the original on 2007-07-15. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
  5. ↑ David Bartram (2007). "Book Reviews: Palestinian and the Arab-Israeli Conflict". International Journal of Middle East Studies. Cambridge University Press. 39 (3): 475. doi:10.1017/S002074380707064X. S2CID 162873977. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
  6. ↑ Farsakh, Leila H., ed. (2021-10-26). Rethinking Statehood in Palestine: Self-Determination and Decolonization Beyond Partition. University of California Press. doi:10.1525/luminos.113. ISBN 978-0-520-38562-7.
  7. ↑ Matt Horton (March 2007). "Waging Peace". Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
  8. ↑ "Middle East Forum Event Archive". Harvard University. Archived from the original on 2008-05-16. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
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