Palestine/Israel
Scholars Open Letter
to US Media

Signed,*

Lila Abu-Lughod, Buttenweiser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University

Walid Afifi, Professor of Communications, University of California Santa Barbara 

Nadje Al-Ali, Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies, Brown University 

Evelyn Alsultany, Professor, University of Southern California

Sa’ed Atshan, Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Anthropology, Swarthmore College

Khalil Barhoum, Stanford University

Moustafa Bayoumi, Professor, City University of New York - Brooklyn College

Hatem Bazian, Lecturer, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of California Berkeley

Joel Beinin, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus, Stanford University

Nina Berman, Professor of Journalism, Columbia University

Amahl Bishara, Associate Professor, Anthropology, Tufts University

George Bisharat, The Honorable Raymond L. Sullivan Professor of Law, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco 

Paula Chakravartty, James Weldon Johnson Associate Professor of Media Studies, New York University

Omar Dajani, Professor of Law, McGeorge School of Law

Karam Dana, Alyson McGregor Distinguished Professor of Excellence and Transformative Research, University of Washington, Bothell

Beshara Doumani, Mahmoud Darwish Professor of Palestinian Studies, Brown University

Dana El Kurd, Political Science, University of Richmond

Julia Elyachar, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University

Noura Erakat, Associate Professor, Africana Studies and Program in Criminal Justice, Rutgers University New Brunswick

Richard Falk, Professor of International Law, Emeritus, Princeton University

Leila Farsakh, Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Boston

Keith Feldman, Associate Professor, University of California Berkeley

Gary Fields, Professor of Communications, University of California San Diego

Lisa Hajjar, Professor of Sociology, University of California Santa Barbara

Rosina Hassoun, Professor of Anthropology, Saginaw Valley State University

Mahmood Ibrahim, Emeritus Professor of History, Cal Poly, Pomona

Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies

Darryl Li, Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Chicago

Zachary Lockman, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and of History, New York University

Alex Lubin, Professor of African American Studies, Pennsylvania State University

Sunaina Maira, Professor, Asian American Studies, University of California Davis

Saree Makdisi, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California Los Angeles

Ussama Makdisi, Chancellor’s Chair and Professor of History, University of California Berkeley

Melani McAllister, Professor of American Studies and International Affairs, George Washington University

Maya Mikdashi, Associate Professor, Rutgers University

Timothy Mitchell, Professor, Columbia University

Nadine Nader, Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Illinois Chicago

Maha Nassar, Modern Middle East History and Islamic Studies, University of Arizona

David Palumbo-Liu, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor, Stanford University

Janice Peck, Professor Emerita, Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder

Julie Peteet, Emerita Professor of Anthropology, University of Louisville

Rush Rehm, Professor, Theater and Classics, Stanford University

Sara Roy, Associate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

Wadie Said, Professor of Law, University of Colorado School of Law

Sherene Seikaly, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Arab History and Founding Director of the AAEF Center for Arab Studies, University of Houston

Helga Tawil-Souri, Associate Professor, New York University

William Youmans, Associate Professor, George Washington University

*Institutional affiliations for identification purposes only

*****

Additional Signatories

Laila Shereen Sakr, Associate Professor, University of California Santa Barbara 

Tamara Afifi, Professor, University of California Santa Barbara

Bishnupriya Ghosh, Professor of Global Studies and English, University of California, Santa Barbara

Umayyah Cable, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Julie Carlson, Professor of English, University of California Santa Barbara

Diana Allan, Associate Professor of Anthropology, McGill University

Khaled Hroub, Professor, Northwestern University

T. Chester, Instructor- Women and Gender Studies & African American Studies, Arizona State University

Stanley Thangaraj, Professor of Race, Ethnicity, and Social Justice, Stonehill College 

Salah D Hassan, Associate Professor, Michigan State University 

Lori Allen, Anthropologist, Independent Scholar

Laleh Khalili, Professor of Gulf Studies, University of Exeter

Fida Adely, Associate Professor, Georgetown University

Ibrahim Fraihat, Associate Professor/International Conflict Resolution, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies

Marwa Abdalla, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California San Diego

Lisa Rofel, Professor Emerita and Research Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz

Lynn Gottlieb, Rabbi, Shomeret Shalom

Elliott Colla, Associate Professor, Georgetown University

Samar Saeed, PhD  Candidate, Georgetown University

Sophia Azeb, Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz

Ghassan Zeineddine, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, Oberlin College 

Mitchell Plitnick, President, ReThinking Foreign Policy 

Brooke Lober, Lecturer, Gender and Women's Studies, University of California Berkeley

Bilge Yesil, Associate Professor, City University of New York, College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center 

Ronak K. Kapadia, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Illinois Chicago 

Gholam Khiabany, Goldsmiths, University of London 

Nabil Echchaibi, Associate Professor of Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder

Mostafa Minawi, Associate Professor of History, Cornell University 

Sawsan Abdulrahim, Professor and Visiting Fellow, American University of Beirut and FXB Center for Health and Human Rights

Joshua Stacher, Professor, International Studies, Kent State University 

Mehdi Semati, Professor of Communication, Northern Illinois UNiversity 

Rochelle Davis, Sultanate of Oman Associate Professor, Georgetown University

Ted Swedenburg, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, University of Arkansas 

Joel Gordon, Professor of History, University of Arkansas

Rebecca Ruth Gould, Distinguished Professor, Comparative Poetics and Global Politics, SOAS University of London

Chris Dole, Professor of Anthropology, Amherst College

Teona Williams, Postdoc, Rutgers University

Sheetal Chhabria, Associate Professor, Connecticut College

Josh Ruebner, Adjunct Lecturer, Georgetown University

Jennifer Kelly, Associate Professor, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Feminist Studies, University of California Santa Cruz

Marwa Daoudy, Associate Professor, Georgetown University

Wally Yazbak, Retired / Self Employed, Kiwanis Club

Mark Lance, Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Justice and Peace, Georgetown University

Kimberly Coles, Professor of English, The University of Maryland

Jeffrey Sacks, Associate Professor, University of California, Riverside 

Shaira Vadasaria, Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Edinburgh

Stephanie Batiste, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara

Jon Hale, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Natasha Lennard, Associate Director, The New School for Social Research

Sarah Gualtieri, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California 

Gabi Kirk, PhD Candidate, University of California Davis

Michal Rubin, Visiting Assistant Professor, Knox College

Khaled Elgindy, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University

Kathryn Babayan, Professor of History & Middle East Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Samer Shehata, Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma 

Lara Deeb, Professor, Anthropology and Middle East Studies, Scripps College

Georgia Mickey, Associate Professor Emerita, California State Polytechnic University Pomona

Heather Ferguson, Associate Professor of History, Claremont McKenna College

Robin Gabriel, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California Santa Cruz 

Stacy Fahrenthold, Associate Professor of History, University of California Davis

Nadia Guessous, Associate Professor, Colorado College

Sana Tannoury-Karam, Assistant Professor of History, Lebanese American University

Driss Maghraoui, Associate Professor, Al Akhawayn University

Zakaria Rhani, Professor of Anthropology, Mohammed V  University in Rabat 

Reda Sadiki, Medical Doctor, Tetouan Hospital 

Jeffrey G. Karam, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Lebanese American University 

Imene Bennani, Assistant Professor, University of Sousse

Razan Shawamreh, Ph.D Candidate, Eastern Mediterranean University 

Dina Matar, Professor, SOAS

Ece Algan, Professor, California State University, San Bernardino 

Naziha Houki, Lecturer in Communication Studies, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane

Marcela Pizarro, Dr Goldsmiths, University of London

Fernando Hernández Jáuregui, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Ventura College

Rosemary Sayigh, Doctor of Anthropology, Retired from AUB, Beirut, Lebanon

Des Freedman, Professor, Goldsmiths, University of London

Mohamed-Salah Omri, Professor, University of Oxford

Rima Majed, Assistant Professor, American University of Beirut

Anissa Daoudi, Associate Professor, University of Birmingham, UK

Daniel Mosquera, Professor, Union College

Ergin Bulut, Senior Lecturer, Goldsmiths

Daniel Mosquera, Professor, Union College

Farha Ghannam, Professor of Anthropology, Swarthmore College 

Andrew Feffer, Professor Emeritus, History, Union College

Lahra Smith, Associate Professor, Georgetown University

Deidre Hill Butler, Associate Professor Sociology, Union College

Zeyno Ustun, Assistant Professor, St Lawrence University 

Rachel Kuo, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 

Layal Ftouni, Assistant Professor, Utrecht University 

Greg Burris, Associate Professor, American University of Beirut 

Elizabeth Burns, Dr, Retired 

Melinda González, Assistant Professor, Georgetown University 

Rachel Lucas, Middle Eastern Studies MA student, University of Toronto 

Sayyida Hasan, Miss, Rush Medical College

Megan Ferry, Professor, Union College

Jonathan Marr, Senior Lecturer, Union College

Bram Wispelwey, Instructor, Harvard Medical School & Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Neelofer Qadir, Assistant Professor of English; Affiliated Faculty to the Program in African American and African Diaspora Studies, UNC Greensboro

Anna Levy, Adjunct faculty, Peace & Justice, Fordham University

Mohammed Abu-Nimer, Professor, American University 

Raed Yacoub, PhD, E-Learning, Goldsmiths, University of London

Irene Calis, Director of Arab World Studies, American University, Dept of Critical Race, Gender, & Culture Studies

Dora Carpenter-Latiri, Dr, University of Brighton

Zainab Saleh, Associate Professor, Haverford College

Maha Hilal, Adjunct Professorial Lecturer, American University

Zein El-Amine, Lecturer, American University 

Farha Ghannam, Professor of Anthropology, Swarthmore College 

Kathy High, Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Alex Jreisat, PhD Candidate in Anthrohistory, University of Michigan

Manal Insley, Student, Georgetown University 

Thomas Lobe, Emeritus Professor, Union College

Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Bard College

Mehmet ÇAKMAK, Savaşı durdurun, Zulüm son bulsun 

Meryem Uzumcu, Phd student, Rutgers University

Callie Maidhof, Assistant Senior Instructional Professor and Associate Director of Global Studies, University of Chicago 

Bruce Robbins Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University

Barbara Hodkin, Dr., Retired Professor

Timothy Perkins, Retired Professor of Urban Politics, École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle

Kareem Rabie, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago

Zahr Said, Charles I. Stone Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law

Rhoda Kanaaneh, Dr., None

Andrew Ross, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University

Rawae Karmim, Assistant Professor, Literature and Cultural Studies, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane 

Andrew Paul Gutierrez, FRES Professor Emeritus, University of California at Berkeley

Sarah Abu-Sheikha, Ms. Alumnus, Georgetown University

Noura Kamal, Senior Post-Doc Researcher, Institute for Social Anthropology / Austrian Academy of Sciences

Barry Preisler, Professor of Political Science (retired), Sonoma State University

Awatef Elmohd, Retired teacher

Razan Shawamreh, Ph.D candidate, Eastern Mediterranean University 

Sadu Nanjundiah, Professor, Central Connecticut State University

Dina Ramadan, Continuing Associate Professor of Human Rights & Middle Eastern Studies, Bard College 

Jawid Mojaddedi, Professor, Rutgers University

Lana Cable, Professor, University at Albany Retiree

Susan Entin, Ms PSR, Episcopal Church, Sierra Club

Fawzi Elmohd, MR., MAS 

Somaia Saie, Dr, Physical therapy 

Tabitha Mustafa, Wharton Coalition for Equity and Opportunity Fellow, University of Pennsylvania 

Marisol Becerra, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Chicago

Samer Alatout, Buttel-Sewell Professor Department of Community and Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Helen Koulidobrova, Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics, Central Connecticut State University 

Pilar Saad, Retired Social Studies Teacher

Sabeen Chaudhry, Office Assistant, CCSU

Glenn LaVertu, Central Connecticut State University

Bridget Guarasci, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Franklin and Marshall College

Neha Vora, Professor, Lafayette College

Tamara Lea Spira, Associate Professor, Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies, WWU

Kwanda Scott Ford, Cultural Historian, Advocate, Mother-Scholar, University of California Los Angeles

Ilgin Erdem, Academic, CUNY John Jay College

Laurie Brand, Professor Emerita of Middle East Studies, Political Science and International Relations, University of Southern California

Fatima Raafat, Doctoral Candidate 

Allison Shannon, Registrar Services Assistant, Central Connecticut State University

Emily McKee,  Associate Professor

Jonathan AC Brown, Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization, Georgetown University

Sussan Siavoshi, Professor, Trinity University

Cynthia Chris, Professor College of Staten Island, City University of New York

Sarra Alqahtani, Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University 

Ruth Figueroa, Education coordinator, Corredor Afro

Samer Shehata, Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma 

Atalia Omer, Professor of Religion, Conflict, and Peace Studies, The University of Norte Dame

John Womack, Jr, Professor of History, Emeritus, Harvard University

William Granara, Research Professor of Arabic, Harvard University

Helena de Morais Manfrinato Othman, Phd, São Paulo University/CEBRAP

Souad Dajani, Ph.D., Retired Independent Researcher & Consultant, Auerbach Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts Boston 

Linda Perry, Program Director, WBAI Radio, New York 

Diane Moore, Associate Deann of Religion and Public Life and Lecturer on Religion, Conflict, and Peace, Harvard Divinity School

Amit Baishya, Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma

Sean Donegan, Actor

Asli Zengin, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University

Nubar Hovsepian, Associate Professor Emeritus, Chapman University

Barbara Caramuru, UFPR

Melisa Hussain, Ph.D. Student, University of Michigan, Department of American Culture, Arab and Muslim Studies 

Charles Anderson, Associate Professor of History, Western Washington University

Camilo Pérez-Bustillo, Fellow, Institute for the Geography of Peace, Mexico

Nadim Rouhana, Professor of International Affairs and Conflict Studies, Fletcher School, Tufts University

Bedelia Richards, Associate Professor, University of Richmond

Tariq Dana, Professor of Conflict and Humanitarian Studies, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies 

Manal A Jamal, Professor, James Madison University

Leïla Seurat, Research, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies 

Timothy Seidel, Associate Professor, Eastern Mennonite University 

Anila Daulatzai, University of California, Santa Cruz

Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Professor - Global Chair in Law, Queen Mary University of London

Mohammed Abu-Nimer, Professor, American University

Marjorie Cohn, Founding Dean, People's Academy of International Law

Michelle Troche Panetto, MD, Psychiatrist 

Sam Halabi, Professor, Georgetown University

Najwa Mayer, Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Scholar, Boston University

Atalia Omer, Professor of Religion, Conflict and Peace Studies, The University of Norte Dame 

Fatemeh Moghaddam, PhD candidate, Syracuse University

Elizabeth Aaronsohn, Associate Professor Emeritus, Central CT State University

Pamela Steiner, Senior Fellow, FXB Center for Heath and Human Rights 

Mirret El-Hagrassy, Assistant Professor of Neurology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, UMass Memorial

Inaash Islam, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Saint Michael’s College

Shenila Khoja-Moolji, Associate Professor, Georgetown University

Lawrence Wittner, Professor of History Emeritus, State University of New York/Albany

Abdeslam Maghraoui, Associate Professor, Duke University 

Farha Ternikar, Professor, GWS, LeMoyne college 

Mustafa Donmez, Mbbs, Umass 

Saher Selod, Associate Professor of Sociology, Simmons University

Asmaa Malik, Associate Professor, Journalism, Toronto Metropolitan University

Niovi Patsicakis, President of Global Peace Alliance British Columbia

Chelsey Dyer, Lecturer, North Carolina State University 

Jim Recht, Lecturer on Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Catherine Hunt, Indivisible

Sheena Sood, Assistant Professor of Sociology

Phaedra C Pezzullo, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Boulder

Nausheen Husain, Assistant Professor, Journalism, Syracuse University 

Emily Sibley, Research Associate, Whitman College

Eve Spangler, Associate Professor, Boston College

Farha Ternikar, Professor, Le Moyne College

Hareem Khan, Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Ethnic Studies, California State University, San Bernardino

Simona Sharoni, Dean, International Initiatives & Global Engagement, Merrimack College

Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, Chair & Professor, Women's & Gender Studies Department, Southern Connecticut State University

Kayla Renée Wheeler, Assistant Professor of Critical Ethnic Studies and Theology, Xavier University 

Maryam Kashani, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Madi Day, Southern Connecticut State University

Diana B. Greenwald, Assistant Professor of Political Science, City College of New York

Issam Nassar, Professor of Middle East History, Illinois State University, Emeritus

Arianna Afsar, Masters of Public Administration Candidate, New York University

Stephen Sheehi, Sultan Qaboos Professor of Middle East Studies, William & Mary

Rahmeh Akour, PhD Candidate in Political Science and International Relations, Istanbul Aydin University

Lara Sheehi, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, George Washington University

Khaled Abou El Fadl, Professor, UCLA School of Law

Elora Chowdhury, Professor, UMass Boston

Jacob Werblow, Professor, Central Connecticut State University

Dana Priest, Knight Chair in Public Affairs Journalism, University of Maryland

Sandra Wimer, Senior Artist-in-Residence/Lecturer Emerita, Union College

Kevin Blackistone, Professor of the Practice, University of Maryland Merrill College of Journalism 

Omnia Khalil, Lecturer doctorate, CUNY

Arseli Dokumaci, Associate Professor, Concordia University 

Amy Kallander, Professor of History, Syracuse University

Farah Bakaari, PhD Candidate, Cornell University

Natalie Fenton, Professor of Media and Communications, Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania

Elizabeth Holt, Associate Professor, Division of Languages and Literature, Bard College

Andy Clarno, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago 

Michael Carbajales-Dale, Associate Professor, Clemson University

David Wood, Research Professor, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Jessica Saba, PhD Candidate, Michigan State University

Johnny E. Williams, Professor, Trinity College 

G. Maris Jones, Ph.D. candidate, University of Pennsylvania

Daniel Morales-Armstrong, University of Pennsylvania

Erik Love, Associate Professor of Sociology, Dickinson College

Nagesh Rao, Lecturer, Colgate University

Yasmin Jiwani, Professor Emerita, Concordia University

Ewa Górska, PhD, Jagiellonian University, Poland

Shar Kohnke, IWW

Khanum Shaikh, Associate Professor, California State University, Northridge

Daniel Olmos, Assistant Professor of Sociology CSU Northridge

Sheena Malhotra, Professor, CSU, Northridge

Navine Murshid, Associate Professor of Political Science, Colgate University

Aimee Carrillo Rowe, Professor, CSU Northridge

Kathryn Sorrells, Professor Emerita, California State University Northridge

Susan Fitzpatrick Behrens, Professor of History, California State University Northridge

Marta Lopez-Garza, Professor, California State University System

Jinah Kim, Professor, California State University, Northridge

David G. Embrick, Associate Professor and Director, University of Connecticut

Aseel Sawalha, Associate Professor, Fordham University

Monika Halkort. Dr. School for Transformation, University of Applied Arts, Vienna 

Anita Jain, Professor, Cal Poly Pomona

Alan Richards, Professor Emeritus University of California, Santa Cruz

Mike Alewitz, Professor Emeritus, Central CT State University

Hossein Kamaly, Professor of Interfaith Studies, Hartford International University for Religion & Peace 

Paul Lubeck, Professor of Sociology Emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz