Leila Farsakh

Leila Farsakh is an associate professor and board member at Massachusetts University. Author of the book “Palestinian Labor Migration to Israel: Labour, Land and Occupation“, (London: Routledge, second edition, 2012), she also addresses issues of the political economy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, alternatives to partition and international migration in her publications, which appear in a variety of academic journals, including the Middle East Journal, the European Journal of Development Research, Ethnopolitics, the International Feminist Journal of Politics, the Journal of Palestine Studies and Le Monde Diplomatique.
Leila Farsakh's research focuses on economic issues related to development, with a particular emphasis on the situation in the Middle East and the Arab-Israeli conflict. In her contributions to journals such as the Middle East Journal, the European Journal of Development Research, the Journal of Palestine Studies and Le Monde Diplomatique, she deals with key issues such as Palestinian labour flows, the Oslo process, international migration and the one-state solution in Israel/Palestine. In 2008, she was guest editor of the Electronic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies for the special volume Commemorating the Naksa, Evoking the Nakba.
As an associate professor, Leila Farsakh also worked with a number of international organisations, including the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris (1993-1996) and the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute in Ramallah (1998-1999). Between 2003 and 2004, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University.
In 2001, she received the Peace and Justice Award from the Cambridge Peace Commission (Cambridge, MA).