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The Palestinian Student Movement and the Dialectic of Palestinian Liberation and Class Struggles
From: The University and Social Justice
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Contributors
Lena Meari
Lena Meari is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences and the director of the Institute of Women’s Studies at Birzeit University, Palestine. She is a member of Birzeit’s administrative board of the union of academics and employees. Her publications include ‘Sumud: A Palestinian philosophy of confrontation in colonial prisons’, ‘Re-signifying “Sexual” Colonial Power Techniques: The experiences of Palestinian women political prisoners’, ‘Reconsidering Trauma: Towards a Palestinian community psychology’ and the co-edited book Rethinking Gender in Revolutions and Resistance: Lessons from the Arab World (2015: Zed Books).
Rula Abu Duhou
Rula Abu Duhou is an instructor and researcher at the Institute of Women’s Studies at Birzeit University, Palestine. She has an MA in Gender, Law and Development and a second MA in Democracy and Human Rights. She has published on Palestinian political prisoners, and contributed to the book Small Places and Big Issues: Three Palestinian neighbourhoods under occupation. A trade union activist, she volunteered for eight years at ADDAMEER Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association. She is currently writing a book on Palestinian women political prisoners based on her own experience as a political prisoner.