مفهمة فلسطين الحديثة: نماذج من المعرفة التحررية (2)

Orouba Othman: A PhD candidate in Humanities and Social Sciences at Birzeit University and a lecturer at social sciences department in Bethlehem University. Her scholarly work focuses on futurity and anthropology of hope and destiny, settler colonialism and Zionism, post-colonialism and cultural studies. She was granted Elias Khoury prize for excellence and creative research in 2016 in Masters' degree in Israeli studies at Birzeit university. She contributed in a text titled "The Confiscation of the Bedouin Tent: The Violence of Museumization and Representation" in "Regarding Pictures of Others" book issued by Qattan foundation. She writes her PhD thesis on "The Dynamics of Hope in the Gazan's Life of Pain: Multiple Futurities and temporalities."

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Mohammed Sherbini: A PhD Candidate in social sciences at Birzeit University. A researcher in the history of ideas, interested in philosophy and Islamic thought, traditional and contemporary, with a special focus on studying Salafi discourse, its composition, and manifestations in general, the phenomenon of violence among Salafi jihadists, and the religious discourse among Palestinian Islamic political movements. He completed two master's degrees: the first in philosophy in Islam, and the other in intellectual and cultural studies. He published a book entitled: The Intellectual Roots of Violence in Jihadi Salafism and their Impact (2019). He also published studies on the violent fatwas of jihadi Salafism, in addition to critical reviews of Salafism.

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Yasmeen Qadan: PhD candidate in Social Sciences at Birzeit University, she holds a Master's degree in Sociology from the same university. She is a social researcher whose interests lie in the sociology of art, sociology of colonialism, urban sociology, and their intersections. Currently, she is working on her doctoral dissertation titled "The Ecological Ontology in the Temporality of the Palestinian Peasant: Tracks of Movement in Daily life”. In addition to her research on the concept of liminality and manifestations of violence in Palestine. Her publications include "The Concealment of Death in the Architecture of Palestinian Social Space" (2017), and " Motion Flow policy in Ramallah: A one-way street in the architecture of contemporary Palestinian space" (2023).

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Suhaila Abdel Latif: A PhD candidate in Social Sciences and a part-time lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Birzeit University. She holds a master’s degree in Contemporary Arab Studies from the same university. Her research interest is focused on the sociology of literature and literary and cultural criticism. Her thesis focuses on studying the Palestinian fiction of the occupied Palestinian territories in 1948, written from 1948 to 1967, from the perspective of Disasters Studies. She has published The Central Character in Fiction: Jabra Ibrahim Jabra and Jorge Amado (2019) and The Book of Creation (A Novel) (2018), and translated The Limits of Knowledge by Jamal Daher (2018). She previously worked as Projects Coordinator and Financial Officer at Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Institute of International Studies at Birzeit University. 

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