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Leila FarsakhTopics of Interest:
Political Economy of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Labor Migration, Middle East Politics, Political Economy of the Middle East Countries/Regions of Interest: Israel/Palestine, Middle East |
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List of Publications Books: Palestinian Labor Migration to Israel: Labor, Land and Occupation, (London: Routledge, 2005, second edition 2012). Commemorating the Naksa, Evoking the Nakba, (Guest Editor of the Spring 2008 volume for the peer reviewed Electronic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies), MIT, Boston, 2008. Development Strategies, Employment and International Migration, (co-edited with David O’Connor), OECD Development Center Publications, Paris, 1996. Refereed Journal Articles: “Economic Prospects for a One-State Solution in Palestine-Israel”, Holy Land Studies, vol. 12, November 2013, pp. 119-140. Athttp://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/hls.2013.0066 “The One State Solution and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Palestinian Challenges and Prospects”, Middle East Journal, vol.64 no.1, winter 2011, pp.20-45. “Introduction – Engaging Islam: Feminisms, Religiosities and Self-Determinations” co-authored with Elora Chowdhury and Rajini Srikanth, International Feminist Journal of Politics, vol. 10, no.4 December 2008, pp. 439-454.http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616740802393866 “The Political Economy of Israeli Occupation: What is Colonial about it?” The Electronic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, No 8, Spring 2008, pp. 41-58, athttp://www.researchgate.net/publication/228470907_The_Political_Economy_of_Israeli_Occupation_What_Is_Colonial_About_It “Independence, Cantons or Bantustans: Whither the Palestinian State?” Middle East Journal, vol.59, no.2, Spring 2005, pp. 230-245, athttp://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/4330126.pdf?acceptTC=true “Palestinian Labor Flows to Israel: A Finished Story?” Journal of Palestine Studies, vol. 32, no.1, Autumn 2002, pp. 13-27. Athttp://www.jstor.org/stable/3247576 “The Viability of a Palestinian State in the West Bank and Gaza Strip”, The Electronic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 1, no.1, May 2001, pp.43-57. “North African Labor Flows and the Euro-Med Partnership”,The European Journal of Development Research, vol.12, no.1, June 2000, pp.58-79 Book Chapters: “Democracy Promotion in Palestine: Aid and the “De-Democratization” of the West Bank and Gaza”, in Linda Tabari (ed), Rethinking Development Under Occupation, Centre for Development Studies, University of Birzeit, Birzeit, West Bank 2014. “Development and Occupation: Revisiting the Palestinian Economy in the Light of Yusef Sayigh’s Legacy”, in Rochelle Davis and Mimi Kirk (ed.) Palestine and the Palestinians in the 21st Century (Indiana University Press, 2013). “The Palestinian National Movement and the One State Solution in Israel/Palestine: Challenges for Building a Movement for the One State Solution in the Arab World” in Hani Faris, Israel/Palestine: One State for all of its Citizens, (Beirut: Center for Arab Unity Studies, in Arabic, 2012) “Israel, l’Apartheid et l’Etat Palestinian” in Dominique Vidal (ed) Palestine/Israël: Un Etat, Deux Etats? (Paris: Actes Sud, in French, 2011) “The Gaza Strip” in Cheryl Rubenburg (ed.) Encyclopaedia of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Boulder: Lynn Rienner Press, 2010). “From Domination to Destruction: The Palestinian Economy under the Israeli Occupation” in Adi Ophir, Michal Givoni and Sari Hanafi (eds.) The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (New York: Zone Books, 2009). “L’eau et le conflit Israëlo-Palestinien”, in Jean-Pierre Gelard (ed.), L’Eau: Source de Vie, Source de Conflit, Rennes, Presse Universitaires de Rennes, France 2006., pp.167-178. “Terrorism local, terrorism sans frontiers”, in Lelievre, H. (ed), Le Terrorism: Questions, Editions Complexe, Brussels, Belgium, 2004, pp. 137-148. “The Redefinition of Economic Boundaries between Israel and the West Bank and Gaza Strip”, in Hassan Hakimian and Jeffrey Nugent (eds.), The Middle East Economies at the Turn of the Twenty First Century, London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003, pp.231-253 “Viabilité économique sans sovereinté territoriale”, in Gresh, A. and Billion, E.A. (eds.), Actualités de l’Etat Palestinien, Paris: Le Monde, 2000, pp. 75-90. Other Commissioned Publications: “Palestine Refuses to Disappear”, Le Monde Diplomatique, December 2012 http://mondediplo.com/2012/12/Palestine “Searching for the Arab Spring in Ramallah”, Jadaliyyawebjournal, February 2012, athttp://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/4438/searching-for-the-arab-spring-in-ramallah “Darwish and the Meaning of Palestine” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, Volume 7, fall 2009, pp. 100-1004, athttp://scholarworks.umb.edu/humanarchitecture/vol7/iss5/25/ “Exiles and Home” Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, Volume 6, Fall 2008, pp. 79-90. Athttp://scholarworks.umb.edu/humanarchitecture/vol6/iss2/8/ “Time for the Bi-National State?” Le Monde Diplomatique, March 2007, Paris, France, athttp://mondediplo.com/2007/03/07binational “The Political Economy of Agrarian Change in the West Bank and Gaza Strip”, Robert Schumann Centre for Advanced Studies Working Paper, European University Institute, 2004, pp. 1-17. “De L’Afrique du Sud a la Palestine” Le Monde Diplomatique, November 2003, Paris, France, athttp://mondediplo.com/2003/11/04apartheid “The Political Economy of Agrarian Change in the West Bank and Gaza Strip”, Robert Schumann Centre for Advanced Studies Working Paper, European University Institute, 2004, pp. 1-17. |
Leila Farsakh is Associate Professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the author of Palestinian Labor Migration to Israel: Labour, Land and Occupation, (Routledge, fall 2005, 2012) and editor ofCommemorating the Naksa, Evoking the Nakba, (a special volume of Electronic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, in Spring 2008), as well as of numerous journal articles on the political economy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and on the One-State solution. Dr. Farsakh holds a Ph.D. from the University of London and an M.Phil from the University of Cambridge, UK. She 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 Dr. Farsakh won the Peace and Justice Award from the Cambridge Peace Commission, in Cambridge-Massachusetts. |
