Journal of Palestine Studies
Vol. 48 No. 3, 2019
Spring
Perla Issa is a researcher at the Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS) in Beirut. She holds a PhD in Politics from Exeter University, an MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University, a second MA in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, and a Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University. Her PhD dissertation “Palestinian Political Factions: An Everyday Perspective” was the 2015 joint-winner of the BRISMES Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for the best UK doctoral dissertation on the Middle East. Additionally, she co-Directed and co-Produced a six-part independent documentary film series "Chronicles of Refugee" that looks at the global Palestinian refugee experience since 1948.