My Photos  صور



No Man's Land مخيم على الحدود




Al Ruweished مخيم الرويشد




Nahr El Bared  مخيم تهر البارد




Nahr El Bared 1 حملة نحر البريد للاخاثة



Nahr El Bared 2 حملة نحر البريد للاخاثة



Palestine فلسطين




Occupied Palestine 1 إحتلال فلسطين



Occupied Palestine 2 إحتلال فلسطين



1948 Palestine ١٩٤٨ فلسطين



Palestinian Resistance مقاومة فلسطين



Palestinian Refugee Camps مخيمات فلسطينية


Art, Music, & Literature

  1. Al Bab

  2. Ani DiFranco

  3. Arab Films

  4. Betool Khedairi

  5. Betty Shamieh

  6. The Boondocks

  7. Jackie Salloum

  8. Made in Palestine

  9. Mahmoud Darwish

  10. Maysoon Zayid

  11. Nafas Beirut

  12. Paltel Virtual Gallery

  13. The Philistines

  14. Radius of Arab American Writers

  15. Saram Shamma

  16. Saul Williams

  17. Spearhead

  18. Suheir Hammad

  19. Yabous

Academic Freedom

  1. American Association of University Professors

  2. Cognitive Dissidents

  3. Defend Dissent and Critical Thinking on Campus

  4. Free Sami Al-Arian

  5. Noam Chomsky

  6. Norman G. Finkelstein

  7. Norman G. Finkelstein Solidarity Campaign

  8. Teachers for a Democratic Society

  9. Ward Churchill Solidarity Campaign

Boycott, Divestment, & Sanctions

  1. Academics for Justice

  2. The Big Campaign

  3. Boycott Israeli Goods

  4. British Committee for Universities of Palestine

  5. Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid

  6. Divestment

  7. Divestment Support Committee

  8. Enough!

  9. Mona Baker

  10. Palestine BDS Campaign

  11. Palestine Campaign

  12. Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel

  13. Somerville Divestment Project

  14. Uri Davis

  15. Sue Blackwell

  16. Stop Caterpillar

  17. U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation

  18. University of Wisconsin Divestment from Israel Campaign

Refugees & Displaced People

  1. Fosohat

  2. Frontiers

  3. Nahr El Bared Refugee Camp

  4. Nahr El Bared Relief Campaign

  5. Refugees International

  6. United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR)

  7. United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)

 

About me هذا انا

 
From Los Angeles to Beirut and the spaces in between
I am a scholar, a teacher, and an activist invested in human rights. I am especially committed to al awda, or the Right of Return for Palestinian refugees under UN Resolution 194. I teach literature courses, as well as courses in American and Middle East Studies. In the spring of 2008 I received tenure in the English department at Boise State University, U.S.  I have also taught at the Center for American Studies and Research at the American University of Beirut; Al Quds University in Al Quds Palestine; the University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan as a Fulbright Scholar; and the University of Ghana in Legon, Ghana.

I am the editor of Jessie Redmon Fauset's The Chinaberry Tree & Selected Writings, and The Sleeper Wakes: Harlem Renaissance Stories by Women as well as author of Beyond Slash, Burn, and Poison: Transforming Breast Cancer Stories into Action for which I won Breast Cancer Action's Spirit of Activism Award.

As an activist I have worked as the legislative coordinator for Idaho District Two for the U.S. Campaign to End the Occupation of Palestine, founded the Idaho Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid, and I was a Fellow at the Initiative for Middle East Policy Dialogue. I also work with the Lebanese Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid and Civilian Resistance in Lebanon. I helped to organize the solidarity campaign to ensure Professor Norman Finkelstein received tenure at DePaul University. Finally, I co-founded the Nahr El Bared Relief Campaign to assist Palestinian refugees in Lebanon who became Internally Displaced People (IDPs) during the spring of 2007.

My Blog, Body on the Line, has an archive of my thoughts and reflections on all of this work for the past few years. http://www.amazon.com/Chinaberry-Tree-Selected-Northeastern-Literature/dp/1555532071/ref=sr_1_3/103-7774688-0883800?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1177931809&sr=8-3http://www.amazon.com/Chinaberry-Tree-Selected-Northeastern-Literature/dp/1555532071/ref=sr_1_3/103-7774688-0883800?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1177931809&sr=8-3http://www.amazon.com/Sleeper-Wakes-Harlem-Renaissance-Stories/dp/185242317X/ref=sr_1_2/103-7774688-0883800?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1177931809&sr=8-2http://www.amazon.com/Sleeper-Wakes-Harlem-Renaissance-Stories/dp/185242317X/ref=sr_1_2/103-7774688-0883800?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1177931809&sr=8-2http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Slash-Burn-Poison-Transforming/dp/0813534712/ref=sr_1_1/103-7774688-0883800?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1177931809&sr=8-1http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Slash-Burn-Poison-Transforming/dp/0813534712/ref=sr_1_1/103-7774688-0883800?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1177931809&sr=8-1http://www.bcaction.org/Pages/TakeAction/15thAnniversary.htmlhttp://www.bcaction.org/Pages/TakeAction/15thAnniversary.htmlhttp://endtheoccupation.org/http://endtheoccupation.org/http://idahocampaign.wordpress.com/http://www.imepd.org/http://www.imepd.org/http://lceia.wordpress.com/http://lceia.wordpress.com/http://www.lebanonsolidarity.org/http://www.lebanonsolidarity.org/http://normanfinkelstein.wordpress.com/http://normanfinkelstein.wordpress.com/http://www.nahrelbaredcampaign.orghttp://bodyontheline.wordpress.com/shapeimage_16_link_0shapeimage_16_link_1shapeimage_16_link_2shapeimage_16_link_3shapeimage_16_link_4shapeimage_16_link_5shapeimage_16_link_6shapeimage_16_link_7shapeimage_16_link_8shapeimage_16_link_9shapeimage_16_link_10shapeimage_16_link_11shapeimage_16_link_12shapeimage_16_link_13shapeimage_16_link_14shapeimage_16_link_15shapeimage_16_link_16shapeimage_16_link_17shapeimage_16_link_18shapeimage_16_link_19shapeimage_16_link_20