TUFTS UNIVERSITY - Key Persons

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• Associate Professor and Chair of the Anthropology Department
• Associate Professor, Anthropology Chair, Anthropology Associate Professor, Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora

Amahl Bishara is Associate Professor and Chair of the Anthropology Department at Tufts University. She is the author of Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence, & Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression (Stanford 2022), about different conditions of expression for and exchange between Palestinian citizens of Israel and Palestinians in the West Bank, and Back Stories: U.S. News and Palestinian Politics (Stanford University Press 2013), an ethnography of the production of U.S. news during the second Palestinian intifada. She also writes about popular refugee politics in the West Bank, attending to struggles over and through media, water, space, and protest. Working with youth at the Lajee Center, in Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem, she has co-produced two bilingual children's books. She is co-director of the award-winning documentary "Take My Pictures For Me" (2016, with Mohammad Al-Azza). She is on the editorial boards of Journal of Palestine Studies and Cultural Anthropology and is the president elect of the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association.

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• Center Coordinator

Amaia is a second-year PhD Student, focusing on conflict resolution and social movements. In addition to her role at the Fares Center, Amaia also works as a Teaching Fellow and Research Assistant. She completed the MALD in May 2021. During the MALD, Amaia focused on conflict resolution, gender and human security, with a particular focus on the Middle East. Amaia lived in the West Bank from 2012 to 2018, working as a legal researcher on international law and human rights violations in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At Fletcher, she co-organized the Decolonizing International Relations Conference, worked as a Research Assistant at the World Peace Foundation and as a Teaching Assistant and Coordinator at the Tufts University Prison Initiative. During the summer of 2020 she was a Topol Fellow in Nonviolent Resistance and analyzed the impact of external actors on nonviolent resistance movements in the West Bank. Amaia holds a Law Degree (J.D.) from the Complutense University of Madrid and a BSc in Politics and International Relations from the London School of Economics.

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• Adjunct Professor of International Business at the Fletcher School

Professor Ibrahim Warde is an adjunct professor of international business at The Fletcher School. His books include The Price of Fear: The Truth Behind the Financial War on Terror, which has been translated into French, Italian, Japanese, and Czech, and was selected by Foreign Affairs as one of the best books of the year about economic, social, and environmental issues, and Islamic Finance in the Global Economy, now in its second edition. He has previously taught at the University of California, Berkeley, at MIT's Sloan School of Management, and at other universities in the United States and abroad. He was a Carnegie scholar focusing on informal finance in the Islamic World. He is also a writer for Le Monde Diplomatique and a consultant. He holds a B.A. from Université Saint Joseph in Beirut, Lebanon, an MBA. from France's Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

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• Professor of Comparative Literature

In addition to his position as Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor Rastegar is the former Director for the Center for Humanities at Tufts, as well as Director of Tufts' Arabic Program. His research encompasses two areas relating to the study of modern Arabic and Persian literatures and cultures. First, he studies Persian and Arabic literary history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, with a focus on movements of cultural revival or innovation. Professor Rastegar's first book, "Literary Modernity between Europe and the Middle East", explored the origins of the conception of literary modernity in Arabic and Persian literatures, a topic that he has further addressed in articles and as editor of a special issue of the journal Middle Eastern Literatures. Second, Professor Rastegar researches the role of cinema and visual culture in the formation of cultural memory in conflict and post-conflict social settings. This research is reflected in his second book, "Surviving Images: Cinema, War and Cultural Memory in the Middle East".

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• Professor, History Edward Keller Professor of North Africa and the Middle East, History

Having been educated at the American University in Cairo and the University of Oxford, and having earlier taught at Princeton, NYU, Columbia, Harvard and Cambridge Universities, Professor Fahmy is a historian of the modern Middle East with special emphasis on nineteenth-century Egypt. His books and articles deal with the history of the Egyptian army in the first half of the nineteenth century, and the history of medicine, law and urban planning in 19th- and 20th-century Egypt. Through working on such topics as conscription, vaccination, quarantines, forensic medicine and legal torture, he charts the specific ways in which a modern state was established in Egypt and the manner in which Egyptians accommodated, subverted or resisted the institutions of this modern state. In addition to his academic publications which have appeared in both English and Arabic, he is also active on regular and social media (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Clubhouse as well as his own bi-lingual blog: www.khaledfahmy.org). Over the past few years, he has been using his social media platforms to share ideas about his new academic project: a military, social and cultural history of the 1967 Arab-Israeli conflict. You can watch his 12-part video about the war here (in Arabic): shorturl.at/HKX16

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• Issam M. Fares Professor of Lebanese

Leila Fawaz was the founding director of the Center, from 2001 to 2012. Nadim Shehadi succeeded her taking over in 2015. Before Vali Nasr became dean of the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in 2012, he held the position of associate director at the Fares Center.

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• Professor of Political Science

Professor Malik Mufti teaches courses on international relations as well as the politics of the Middle East. He received a Ph.D. and an M. A. from Harvard University, an M.A. from Yale University and a B.A. from Middlebury College. He is the author of Sovereign Creations: Pan-Arabism and Political Order in Syria and Iraq (1996), and Daring and Caution in Turkish Strategic Culture: Republic at Sea (2009). He has also written shorter pieces on the domestic politics, international relations, and political thought of the Near East, including his latest journal articles "The AK Party's Islamic Realist Political Vision: Theory and Practice" (Politics and Governance, October 2014); "Democratizing Potential of the ‘Arab Spring': Some Early Observations" (Government and Opposition, July 2015); and "Neo-Ottomanists and Neoconservatives: A Strange Alignment in the 1990s" (Insight Turkey, Winter 2016). He is currently working on a research project on realism in Islamic political thought. He is a recipient of the Lillian and Joseph Leibner Award for Distinguished Teaching and Advising.

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• Director / Professor of International Affairs and Conflict Studies

In addition to research and writing on conflict studies and international negotiation, Dr. Rouhana's research includes work on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israeli and Palestinian societies, the dynamics of protracted social conflict, collective identity and democratic citizenship in multi-ethnic states, settler colonialism, and questions of reconciliation and transitional justice. His most recent books include "When Politics Are Sacralized: International Comparative Perspectives on Religious Claims and Nationalism" (Cambridge University Press,2021); "Israel and its Palestinian Citizens: Ethnic Privileges in the Jewish State" (Cambridge University Press, 2017); and "The Palestinians in Israel: Readings in history, politics, and society" (Mada al-Carmel, 2015). Dr. Rouhana is currently working on a book proposing a new paradigm for conflict resolution. Prior to joining Fletcher, Dr. Rouhana was the Henry Hart Rice professor of conflict analysis and resolution at George Mason University. He was a co-founder of the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, where he co-chaired the Center's seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution from 1992-2001. Dr. Rouhana is an affiliate faculty at the Harvard Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. He is also founding director at the Mada al-Carmel-Arab Center for Applied Social Research in Haifa.

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• COMMUNITY SERVICE COORDINATOR, DEPT. PHCS

Under the leadership of DPHCS's Community Service Learning Coordinator Nancy Marks, a core group of student leaders first met in February 2014 to develop a means to facilitate communication among TUSDM's 24 active student organizations. These leaders - Michelle Webb (D14) , Alice Ko (D15), Yogesh Gera (D16), Mitzi Liu (D16), Mandy Alamwala (D16), Stephie Castera (D16), and Justin Maillet (D17) - worked for months to design the site and gather relevant information. Collecting feedback from student leaders was essential to the creation of the website. To this end, the group sent out surveys and held meetings to assess the most efficient way to foster participation in community outreach and civic engagement. Student leaders also created organizational pages to promote their organizations' missions and to choose representatives to assist with ongoing Dental Central responsibilities.