About Leila Farsakh

Leila Farsakh is Associate Professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the author of Palestinian Labor Migration to Israel: Labour, Land and Occupation (London: Routledge, second edition, 2012), and editor of Commemorating the Naksa, Evoking the Nakba (a special volume of Electronic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, in Spring 2008). She has also published on questions related to the Arab-Israeli Peace Process and international migration in a wide range of academic journals, including the Middle East Journal, the European Journal of Development Research, Ethnopolitics, Journal of Palestine Studies and Le Monde Diplomatique. Dr. Farsakh holds a Ph.D. from the University of London and an M.Phil from the University of Cambridge, UK. She has also worked with a number of international organizations, including the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris and since 2008 has been a senior research fellow at the Center for Development Studies at Birzeit University, in the West Bank.