European Centre for Palestinian Studies
المركز الأوروبي للدراسات الفلسطينية  

A Palestinian sociologist and anthropologist whose scholarship explores the complexities of settler colonialism in Palestine, focusing on the transformation of Israeli socio-political structures and the cultural and political engagements of Palestinians with ongoing colonial violence. Her research and publications address themes such as the Nakba, collective memory, sites of colonial violence, Israel’s far right, the intersection of literature and nation-building, and the structural interplay of occupation, apartheid, and settler colonialism. She received her Ph.D. with highest distinction (Summa Cum Laude) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2004. Since 2009, she has served as Director-General of the Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies (MADAR) in Ramallah. In addition to her academic writings, she has edited several collective volumes, MADAR’s annual strategic report, and the Forum’s quarterly journal Qadaya Israeliya (Israeli Issues). She also serves on the boards of several academic and research institutions in Palestine.

Selected Publications

• Ghanim, Honaida. “The Urgency of the Settler Colonialism Framework in Understanding 7 October and the War on Gaza.” Palestine/Israel Review 1, no. 1 (2024): 242–48.

• Ghanim, Honaida, ed. Hegemony Unleashed: The Rise of Israel’s New Right. Ramallah: Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies–MADAR, 2023 [Arabic].

• Ghanim, Honaida. “The Palestine Question: From the Balfour Declaration to the Deal of the Century.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East, edited by Armando Salvatore, Sari Hanafi, and Kieko Obuse, 97–122. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
  
  
• Ghanim, Honaida. “When Yaffa Met (J) Yaffa: Intersections between the Holocaust and the Nakba in the Shadow of Zionism.” In The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History, edited by Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg, foreword by Elias Khoury, afterword by Jacqueline Rose, 92–113. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.
  
  
• Ghanim, Honaida, ed. Israel and Apartheid: A View from Within. Ramallah: Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies–MADAR, 2018 [Arabic].

• Ghanim, Honaida. “From Kubniya to Outpost: A Genealogy of the Palestinian Conceptualization of Jewish Settlement in a Shifting National Context.” In Normalizing Occupation: The Politics of Everyday Life in the West Bank Settlements, edited by Ariel Handel, Marco Allegra, and Erez Maggor, 151–71. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017.

Tahrir Hamdi is a professor of anti-colonial and resistance literature and President of Arab Open University/Jordan. Prof. Hamdi won the international Palestine Book Award 2023 in the “Counter Current” category for her book Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity. In 2020, Prof. Hamdi won the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation’s Arab Researchers’ Award in the Humanities. She has also published research articles in reputable international journals, such as Race & Class, Interventions: the International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Journal of Postcolonial Writing and Arab Studies Quarterly, which is a journal founded by Edward Said in 1979. She is an assistant editor with the journal Arab Studies Quarterly. Prof. Hamdi is also an associate editor in the new journal Janus Unbound. Moreover, she is on the editorial board of the journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies published by Edinburgh University Press. Prof. Hamdi has co-edited a book on Ghassan Kanafani’s political writings entitled Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Works, which has been shortlisted for the Palestine Book Award 2025.

 Her research work revolves around resistance literature, anti-colonial theory and the importance of place and space in literature. She published articles on Edward Said, William Butler Yeats, Mahmoud Darwish, Mourid Barghouti, Saadi Yousef, Ghassan Kanafani, Naji Al Ali, Palestine, Ireland and Iraq. Her current research interests include the complexities of space—historical/temporal, geographical and imaginative—within the anti-colonial and resistance spheres.

Selected Publications:

1. Book entitled Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings published by Pluto Press in October, 2024. Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2025.
2. Book entitled Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity published by Bloomsbury, London, UK, Dec. 2022. Winner of the Palestine Book Award 2023 in the Counter Current category.
3. “Decolonizing English Literature Departments at Arab Universities” published in Arab Studies Quarterly, Pluto publishers and University of California, San Bernardino in Oct. 2022.
4. “Late Style as Resistance in Said, Darwish and Barghouti” is chapter one of a book entitled Post-Millennial Palestine published by Liverpool University Press, 2021.
5. 5. “The Arab Intellectual and the Present Moment” published in Arab Studies Quarterly, Pluto journals, Vol. 41.1 Winter, 2019.
6. 6. “The Intellectual Resistance of Yusuf Al-Ani” Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, (with Tayseer Abu Odeh) March, 2019, Intellect Ltd, UK.
7. 7. “Edward Said, Postcolonialism and Palestine’s Contested Spaces” Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies 16, Issue 1. University of Edinburgh Press, UK, 2017.
8. 8. “Darwish’s Geography: Space, Place and Identity under Construction” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 19, Issue 2. Taylor & Francis, Routledge, London, UK, Jan. 2017.
9. 9. “The Power of Poetry to Travel: An Interview with Mourid Barghouti” in Arab Studies Quarterly 38, Issue 4. Pluto journals, Fall 2016.
10. 10. “Reading, Imagining and Constructing Iraq” published in International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, Vol. 10, Issue 1&2. Intellect Ltd United Kingdom, distributed by University of Chicago Press, March 2016.
11. “Yeats, Said and Decolonization” in Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Vol, 51, Issue 2, 2015. Taylor & Francis, Routledge, London, UK. Presented it at a University of Jordan conference called “Power to Connect.” April, 2014.
12. “Yeats’s Ireland, Darwish’s Palestine: the national in the personal, mystical and mythological” Arab Studies Quarterly Spring, Volume 36, Number 2, , Pluto Journals, California State University, San Bernardino, 2014.
13. “Edward Said and Recent Orientalist Critiques” Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 2, Pluto Journals, California State University, San Bernardino, Spring 2013.
14. “Bearing Witness in Palestinian Resistance Literature” Race & Class, A Journal on Racism, Empire and Globalisation, Vol. 52, No. 3 Sage Publishers, London, UK, Jan.-March 2011.

Dr. Khalidi is an independent scholar specialising in the history of sports in Palestine. He earned his BA (1982), MA (1984), and PhD (1987) from the Institute of Physical Culture and Sport in Moscow, Russia. From 1987 to 1992, he taught at the same institute, and from 1993 to 2024, he served as a faculty member at City College of San Francisco.

During his tenure at City College, Khalidi developed a long-term research project on Palestinian sports history. In 2009, he launched the blog History of Palestine Sports (www.hpalestinesports.net), which remains a central repository for his articles and essays on the subject.

Selected Publications

Books

• History of Sport in Palestine 1900–1948 (Arabic)
• One Hundred Years of Football in Palestine (2013, Arabic and English), Sponsored by FIFA and introduced by former FIFA President Sepp Blatter
• Soccer in the Middle East (co-edited with Alon Raab)

Articles,

“Palestine’s Bid to Join the International Football Association FIFA 1945–98,” Jerusalem Quarterly 101 (2025): 88–102

• “Destruction of Sports Infrastructure in Gaza,” Jerusalem Quarterly 99 (2024): 76–83
• Palestine and the Olympics: A History (with Alon K. Raab), Olympic World Library

• “Sports and Aspirations: Football in Palestine 1900–1948,” Jerusalem Quarterly 58 (2014): 74–89
• “Palestine Sports and Scouts: Factional Politics and the Maccabiad in the 1930s,” Jerusalem Quarterly 63/64 (2015): 87
• “Al-Maccabiad,…al-Sahyuniyya wa Istiqlal al-Riyada,” al-‘Arabi no. 548 (2007): 78–87
• “Body and Ideology: Early Athletics in Palestine: 1900–1948,” Jerusalem Quarterly 27 (2007): 44–58

Additional Contributions

An interview with Shireen Abu Aqlah in November 2021. This interview was featured in a documentary on Al-Jazeera in June 2023.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=Kb3KS_K3tPE

Is an independent researcher who writes and speaks regularly on Palestine. He is a USA-born, permanently settled in London as an Italian citizen; he is a classical violinist and composer by training, and a former faculty member of the Palestine National Conservatory of Music. Books:

• Palestine Mapped: from the river to the sea in early geographic thought (2025)
• Palestine Hijacked: How Zionism Forged an Apartheid State from River to Sea (2022)
• Writings on the Wall: Palestinian Oral Histories (2019)
• State of Terror: How terrorism created modern Israel (2016)
• Palestine Sixty Years Later (2010) Articles: A full list of his 75 articles on Palestine to date, with links, is at his web site, https://thomassuarez.com/

Below are a selection of articles have appeared in Electronic Intifada, Middle East Monitor, Mondoweiss, Counter Currents, the Washington Report for Middle East Affairs, and the Massachusetts Review:

• October 7 has been Israel’s weapon. It should be ours (May 23, 2025) • The masterful propaganda of ‘deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust’ (November 26, 2023) • Iraqi Jews in 1950: the “race against time” vs Near East Air Transport (August 26, 2023) • Palestinians remain holed up in internment, not 'refugee', camps (August 2, 2023) • Palestinians are in Israel’s crosshairs because they are not Jews (June 30, 2023) • Did Israel, not Lehi, murder UN Mediator, Folke Bernadotte, in 1948? (October 19, 2022) • The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism: a critical view (March 31, 2021) • “One Palestine, complete” was no joke (July 15, 2020) • Winston Churchill’s racist legacy in Palestine (June 18, 2020) • Zionism’s mass psychosis is not Israel’s private affair (January 22, 2020) • Israel has never had any intention of honouring either the 1947 Partition Plan or 1967 borders (October 10, 2019) • Britain says releasing a 1941 document about Palestine might ‘undermine security’ (May 13, 2019) • UXOs: Did Israel deliberately arm Hamas? (December 13, 2010) Addendum: • Ten Miniatures on an Imagined Troubadour Theme (harp, 2024), in memory of violin student Lubna Alyaan, killed in Gaza November 2023