The Endurance of Palestinian Political Factions: An Everyday Perspective from Nahr el-Bared Camp

Perla Issa (author): is a researcher at the Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut, Lebanon.

Sa’ed Atshan (moderator): is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Emory University. He previously served as an Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Swarthmore College and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University.  He earned a Joint PhD in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies and an MA in Social Anthropology from Harvard University, and a Master in Public Policy (MPP) degree from the Harvard Kennedy School.  He received his BA from Swarthmore in 2006. He has two recent books, both of which were published in spring 2020: Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique (Stanford University Press) and the co-authored (with Katharina Galor) The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians (Duke University Press). Atshan has been awarded multiple grants and fellowships, including from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Open Society Foundations, National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council, Woodrow Wilson National Foundation, Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. He is also the recipient of a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans and a Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace.