Amahl Bishara

Amahl Bishara is associate professor of anthropology at Tufts University. She is the author of Back Stories: US News Production and Palestinian Politics, about the production of US news during the second intifada. She has also conducted extensive


Looking Beyond the Struggle for Palestinian Statehood

It is difficult to overstate the crisis in which Palestinians find themselves over 100 years after the Balfour Declaration and over 70 years after the Nakba. Palestinians are living as refugees without civil rights in places like Lebanon. Refugees who had lived in relative stability in Syria have now been
Amahl Bishara 10 min read

Voices from the Middle East: Palestinian Refugees in the West Bank Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

Refugees everywhere are particularly vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic. Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza are legally under the protection of the UN and Israel. Are these authorities meeting their obligations? Amahl Bishara talks to Badil director Nidal Al-Azza to find out and to lear
Amahl Bishara, Nidal Al-Azza 9 min read