Leila Farsakh

Leila Farsakh ( _ar. ليلى فرسخ) (born 1967) is a Palestinian Muslim who was born in Jordan and is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at University of Massachusetts Boston.cite web|title=UMass Boston Political Scientist Focuses on a New Civic Blueprint for Jerusalem|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|accessdate=2007-09-11|url=http://www.umb.edu/news/2007news/releases/april/just_jerusalem.html ] 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).

Farsakh conducted post-doctoral research at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and is also a research affiliate at the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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).cite web|title=Political Science Faculty|publisher=University of Massachusetts Boston|accessdate=2007-09-11|url=http://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/dept/polisci/faculty/farsakh.html]

In 2001 she won the Peace and Justice Award from the [http://www.ci.cambridge.ma.us/dept/peace.html Cambridge Peace Commission] in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Farsakh is the Project 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.cite web|title=People|publisher=Jerusalem 2050|accessdate=2007-09-11|url=http://web.mit.edu/CIS/jerusalem2050/people.html] She has written extensively on issues related to the Palestinian economy and the Oslo peace process, international migration and regional integration.

Farsakh is also part of the staff at the non-governmental organization RESIST, founded in 1967 to provide grant money and support to grassroots movements advocating for social change. cite web|title=Board & Staff|publisher=RESIST|accessdate=2007-09-11|url=http://www.resistinc.org/board_staff.html]

Farsakh is married to Franz-Josef Ulm, a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT. They have a daughter named Selma Farsakh Ulm.cite web|title=Comings and Goings|publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology|accessdate=2007-09-11|url=http://cee.mit.edu/index.pl?id=8062&isa=Category&op=show]

Interview

* [http://www.antiwar.com/av/?articleid=2109 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.

Published works

* [http://www.pol-sci.umb.edu/faculty/farsakh.html Leila Farsakh Biographical Note]

Books (partial list):

*"Palestinian Labour Migration to Israel: Labour, Land, and Occupation" (2005). Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom. ISBN 0415333563.cite journal|title=Book Reviews: Palestinian and the Arab-Israeli Conflict|author=David Bartram|journal=International Journal of Middle East Studies|year=2007|volume=Volume 39|publisher=Cambridge University Press|accessdate=2007-09-11|url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=1233848|doi=10.1017/S002074380707064X|pages=475]
*"North African Labour Flows and the Euro-Med partnership" (1999). Part of the series: Europe and the South in the 21th century : Challenges for Renewed Cooperation. Paris : EADI.
*"Palestinian Employment in Israel: 1967-1997" (1998). Ramallah.

Articles (partial list):

*" [http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/09/11/a_legacy_of_promise_for_muslims/ A Legacy of Promise for Muslims] ", the Boston Globe, co-authored with Elora Chowdhury, 11 September 2007.
*with others: " [http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article7102.shtml Statement: One country, one state] " 9 July 2007, Electronic Intifada,
*" [http://mondediplo.com/2007/03/07binational Time for a Bi-National State] ", March 2007 Le Monde diplomatique (also published in: " [http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6702.shtml Israel-Palestine: Time for a bi-national state] ", 20 March 2007 Electronic Intifada,
*" [http://web.archive.org/web/20060911184743/http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~mideast/conference/Farsakh_outline.pdf The Economics of Israeli Occupation: What is Colonial about it?] ", 2006
*" [http://www.pol-sci.umb.edu/papers/Farsakh_MEJ_2005.pdf Independence, Cantons, or Bantustans: Whither the Palestinian State?] " [http://www.mideasti.org/articles/doc396.html] vol.59, no.2, Spring 2005, Middle East Journal
*" [http://cadmus.iue.it/dspace/retrieve/1944/04_40.pdf The Political Economy of Agrarian Change in the West Bank and Gaza Strip] ", Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Working Paper, European University Institute, 2004.
*" [http://mondediplo.com/2003/11/04apartheid Israel: An Apartheid State? ] " November 2003, Le Monde diplomatique
*"Palestinian Labor Flows to Israel: A Finished Story?" [http://www.palestine-studies.org/final/en/journals/abstract.php?aid=4555&jid=1&iid=125&vid=XXXII&vol=184] , [http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/abs/10.1525/jps.2002.32.1.13?prevSearch=authorsfield%3A(Farsakh%2CL)] issue 125, Autumn 2002, Journal of Palestine Studies,
*" [http://www2.www.umb.edu/directory/person_detail.php?id=6356 The Palestinian economy and the Oslo “Peace Process"] ", the Trans-Arab Research Institute, 2001
*" [http://web.mit.edu/cis/www/mitejmes/issues/200105/farsakh.htm 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://www.merip.org/mer/mer217/217_farsakh.html Under Siege: Closure, Separation and the Palestinian Economy] " 217 - Winter 2000, MERIP

Public Lectures

* [http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/643 Notes on Analogy: Israel and Apartheid] , at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, 16 March 2007.
* [http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/392 Beyond Apartheid in Israel/Palestine: The Reality on the Ground & Lessons from South Africa] , at Northeastern University in Boston, 19 November 2006.cite journal|title=Waging Peace|author=Matt Horton|month=March | year=2007|journal=Washington Report on Middle East Affairs|accessdate=2007-09-11|url=http://www.wrmea.com/archives/March_2007/0703057.html]

*"Palestinian Labor Flow to Israel: Is it Over?", at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, 19 February 2002.cite web|title=Middle East Forum Event Archive|publisher=Harvard University|accessdate=2007-09-11|url=http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/seminars/sle/mideast/arc]

*" [http://web.media.mit.edu/~nitin/mideast/leila_chomsky.html Palestinian Perspective] ", Chomsky Lecture on Middle East Crises, December 14th, 2000

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