Authors

Lihi Ben Shitrit is an assistant professor at the School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia. Her research focuses on the intersections of gender, religion, and politics in Middle East.

Lilas Taha is a writer at heart, an electrical engineer by training and an advocate for domestic abuse victims by choice. She was born in Kuwait to a Syrian mother and a Palestinian father, and immigrated to the US following the Gulf War. Lilas'...

Lillian Rosengarten is a clinical social worker and psychoanalyst. She is a poet, writer, mother, grandmother, and progressive human rights activist. Her writings have been published on Mondoweiss.net and elsewhere. Lillian practices meditation...

Lima Shawa was born in Gaza and now lives in Amman, Jordan. She has three children.  

Lina Abdulkarim is a Palestinian-American writer, mother, and former healthcare professional.Born in Jerusalem in 1987 and originally from the West Bank, she spent six formative years living there — an experience that deeply shapes her...

Linda Sarsour is a Brooklyn-born Palestinian Muslim American community activist and mother of three. Recognized for her award-winning intersectional work, she served as national co-chair of the Women’s March, helping to organize the...

Assistant Professor of Geography and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

LISA DALE is a British lawyer who spent 25 years working in legal practice, including 16 years based in Dubai and covering the Middle East region. Her interest in Palestine dates back to 1988, when she first travelled there for undergraduate...

Livia Wick is associate professor of anthropology in the Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies department at the American University of Beirut.

Lorenzo Kamel is a Middle Eastern historian. He is Research Fellow at Harvard University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Senior Researcher at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI). He published six books on Middle Eastern and...