Leila Farsakh Explained

Native Name:	ليلى فرسخ
Native Name Lang:	ar
Birth Date:	1967
Birth Place:	Jordan
Alma Mater:	University of Cambridge (MPhil, 1990) University of London (PhD, 2003)

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] [2]} 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).^[3]

In 2001, she won the Peace and Justice Award from the Cambridge Peace Commission in Cambridge, Massachusetts.^[3]

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.^[4] She has written extensively on issues related to the Palestinian economy and the Oslo peace process, international migration and regional integration.^[4]

Farsakh was also a member of the Board at the non-governmental organization RESIST, founded in 1967 to provide grant money and support to grassroots movements advocating for social change.^[5]

Selected publications

Books (partial list)

• Palestinian Labour Migration to Israel: Labour, Land, and Occupation (2005). Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom. .^[6]
• Development Strategies, Employment and International Migration, (co-edited with David O’Connor), OECD Development Center Publications, Paris, 1996.
• Palestinian Employment in Israel: 1967-1997 Ramallah, 1998.
• Commemorating the Naksa, Evoking the Nakba, (guest editor), Electronic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Spring 2008, MIT, Boston, 2008.
• The Arab and Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond, (co-edited with Bashir Bashir), Columbia University Press, 2020.
• Rethinking Statehood in Palestine: Self-Determination and Decolonization Beyond Partition, University of California Press, 2021.^[7]

Articles (partial list)

• Under Siege: Closure, Separation and the Palestinian Economy . https://web.archive.org/web/20010413013239/http://www.merip.org/mer/mer217/217_farsakh.html . 13 April 2001 . 217 . Winter 2000 . MERIP.
• Web site: The Palestinian economy and the Oslo “Peace Process" . Trans-Arab Research Institute . 2001.
• Economic Viability of a Palestinian State in the West Bank and Gaza Strip: Is it Possible without Territorial Integrity and Sovereignty? . MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies . May 2001 . http://web.archive.org/web/20011031161609/http://web.mit.edu/cis/www/mitejmes/issues/200105/farsakh.htm . 31 October 2001.
• Palestinian Labor Flows to Israel: A Finished Story? . https://web.archive.org/web/20070317083051/http://www.palestine-studies.org/final/en/journals/abstract.php?aid=4555&jid=1&iid=125&vid=XXXII&vol=184 . 17 March 2007 . 125 . Autumn 2002 . . 10.1525/jps.2002.32.1.13 .
• Web site: Israel: An Apartheid State? . November 2003 . Le Monde diplomatique.
• Web site: The Political Economy of Agrarian Change in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute . 2004.
• Independence, Cantons, or Bantustans: Whither the Palestinian State? . https://web.archive.org/web/20070813212849/http://www.mideasti.org/articles/doc396.html . 13 August 2007 . 59 . 2 . Spring 2005 . . 10.3751/59.2.13.
• Web site: Time for a Bi-National State . March 2007 . Le Monde diplomatique. (also published as: Web site: Israel-Palestine: Time for a bi-national state . 20 March 2007 . Electronic Intifada.)
• Web site: Statement: One country, one state . 9 July 2007 . Electronic Intifada. (co-author)
• Web site: A Legacy of Promise for Muslims . . 11 September 2007. (co-authored with Elora Chowdhury)
• The Economics of Israeli Occupation: What is Colonial about it? . Spring 2008 . The Electronic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies . 8.
• Introduction – Engaging Islam: Feminisms, Religiosities and Self-Determinations . International Feminist Journal of Politics . 10 . 4 . December 2008 . 439–454 . 10.1080/14616740802393866. (co-authored with Elora Chowdhury and Rajini Srikanth)
• The One State Solution and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Palestinian Challenges and Prospects . Middle East Journal . 64 . 1 . Winter 2011 . 20–45 . 10.3751/65.1.13.
• Economic Prospects for a One-State Solution in Palestine-Israel . Holy Land Studies . 12 . 2 . 2013 . 119-140 . 10.3366/hls.2013.0066.
• Undermining Democracy in Palestine: the Politics of International Aid since Oslo . Journal of Palestine Studies . 45 . 4 . Summer 2016 . 10.1525/jps.2016.45.4.48.
• Knowledge Production, Colonialism and The Palestinian Economy . Journal of Palestine Studies . XLV . 2 . Winter 2016 .
• A Common State in Israel-Palestine: Historical Origins and Lingering Challenges . Ethnopolitics . 2016 . 15 . 4 . 380–392 .
• The 'Right to Have Rights': Partition and Palestinian Self-Determination . Journal of Palestine Studies . 47 . 1 . 56–68 . 10.1525/jps.2017.47.1.56 . November 2017.

Public lectures

• "Palestinian Labor Flow to Israel: Is it Over?", at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, 19 February 2002.^[8]
• Palestinian Perspective, Chomsky Lecture on Middle East Crises, December 14, 2000
• Beyond Apartheid in Israel/Palestine: The Reality on the Ground & Lessons from South Africa, at Northeastern University in Boston, 19 November 2006.^[9]
• Notes on Analogy: Israel and Apartheid, at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, 16 March 2007.

External links

• The Deteriorating Political Economy of Palestine A video interview with Leila Farsakh, interview conducted by Saul Landau on "Hot Talk" radio Cal Poly Pomona, March 15, 2004.
• Leila Farsakh published works at Department of Political Science - University of Massachusetts Boston

Notes and References

1. Web site: UMass Boston Political Scientist Focuses on a New Civic Blueprint for Jerusalem. University of Massachusetts Boston. 2007-09-11. 9 May 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070509195241/http://www.umb.edu/news/2007news/releases/april/just_jerusalem.html. dead.
2. Web site: Leila Farsakh . UMass Boston . 27 May 2024.
3. Web site: Political Science Faculty. University of Massachusetts Boston. 2007-09-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20081013053535/http://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/dept/polisci/faculty/farsakh.html. 2008-10-13. dead.
4. Web site: People. Jerusalem 2050. 2007-09-11. http://web.archive.org/web/20051125044628/http://web.mit.edu/CIS/jerusalem2050/people.html . 25 November 2005.
5. Web site: Board & Staff. RESIST. 2007-09-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20070715064149/http://www.resistinc.org/board_staff.html. 2007-07-15. dead.
6. Book Reviews: Palestinian and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. David Bartram. International Journal of Middle East Studies. 2007. 39. Cambridge University Press. 2007-09-11. 10.1017/S002074380707064X. 475. 3. 162873977 . subscription.
7. Book: Rethinking Statehood in Palestine: Self-Determination and Decolonization Beyond Partition. 2021-10-26. University of California Press. 978-0-520-38562-7. Farsakh. Leila H.. 10.1525/luminos.113.
8. Web site: Middle East Forum Event Archive. Harvard University. 2007-09-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20080516210210/http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/seminars/sle/mideast/arc. 2008-05-16. dead.
9. Waging Peace. Matt Horton. March 2007. Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. 27 May 2024.