Laila Farsakh
Area of Expertise
Middle East Politics, Comparative Politics, Politics of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Degrees
PhD, University of London
MPhil, Cambridge University (UK)
Professional Publications & Contributions
- (University of California Press, 2021)
- (Columbia University Press, 2020, co-editor)
Additional Information
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Leila Farsakh is an associate professor and department chair. She is the author of Palestinian Labor Migration to Israel: Labour, Land and Occupation, (London: Routledge, second edition, 2012) and has published on questions related to the political economy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, alternative to partition, and international migration in a wide range of academic journals, including the Middle East Journal, the European Journal of Development Research, Ethnopolitics, the International Feminist Journal of Politics, Journal of Palestine Studies and Le Monde Diplomatique. Dr. Farsakh has also worked with a number of international organizations, including the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris and since 2008 has been a senior research fellow at the Center for Development Studies at Birzeit University, in the West Bank. In 2001 she won the Peace and Justice Award from the Cambridge Peace Commission, in Cambridge-Massachusetts.
List of publications include:
Books
, (London: Routledge, 2005, second edition 2012).
, (Guest Editor of the Spring 2008 volume for the peer reviewed Electronic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies), MIT, Boston, 2008.
Refereed Journals Articles
Journal of Palestine Studies, vol. 47, no.1, Fall 2017.
Journal of Palestine Studies, vol. 45/46, no.4, Summer 2016, pp. 48-62.
Journal of Ethnopolitics, vol. 15, no.4, 2016, pp. 380-92.
, vol. 45, no.2, Winter 2016, pp. 55-71, at https://works.bepress.com/leila_farsakh/21/
Holy Land Studies, vol. 12, November 2013, pp. 119-140.
Middle East Journal, vol.64 no.1, winter 2011, pp.20-45.