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Leila Farsakh

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Leila Farsakh ( Arabic : ليلى فرسخ ) (born 1967) is a Palestinian political economist who was born in Jordan and is a Professor of Political Science at University of Massachusetts Boston . Her area of expertise is Middle East Politics, Comparative Politics, and the Politics of the Arab-Israeli Conflict . Farsakh holds a MPhil from the University of Cambridge , UK (1990) and a PhD from the University of London (2003). Farsakh conducted post-doctoral research at Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and was a research affiliate at the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . She has worked with a number of organizations, including the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris (1993 - 1996) and the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute in Ramallah (1998 - 1999). In 2001, she won the Peace and Justice Award from the Cambridge Peace Commission in Cambridge, Massachusetts . Farsakh was member of the editorial Board for the Journal Of Palestine Studies (2008-2020) and was the Project Co-Director for Jerusalem 2050, a problem-solving project jointly sponsored by Massachusetts Institute of Technology 's Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the Center for International Studies. She has written extensively on issues related to the Palestinian economy and the Oslo peace process , international migration and regional integration. Farsakh was also a member of the Board at the non-governmental organization RESIST, founded in 1967 to provide grant money and support to grassroots movements advocating for social change. University of Massachusetts Boston . University of Massachusetts Boston .

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