Leila Farsakh

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Dr. Leila Farsakh is Assistant Professor of Political Science at University of Massachusetts Boston. Her area of expertise is Middle East Politics, Comparative Politics, and the Politics of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Dr. Farsakh holds a Ph.D. from the University of London, and an M.Phil from Cambridge University, UK.

Farsakh conductied post-doctoral research at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies [1], and is also a research affiliate at the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

She has worked with a number of organizations, including the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris and the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute in Ramallah.

In 2001 she won the Peace and Justice Award from the Cambridge Peace Commission in Cambridge, Mass.

Farsakh has written extensively on issues related to the Palestinian economy and the Oslo Process, international migration and regional integration. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of London.

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Time for a Bi-National State, March 2007 [3]

Israel: An Apartheid State? November 2003 [4]

Independence, Cantons, or Bantustans: Whither the Palestinian State? [5]