Refqa Abu-Remaileh is assistant professor at the Freie Universität Berlin’s Arabic department, where she is leading the five-year ERC project PalREAD: “Reading and Reception of Palestinian Literature from 1948 to the Present.” She gained her PhD and MA from the University of Oxford, specializing in modern Arabic literature and film, and her BA in English literature from the University of British Columbia.
Gil Anidjar teaches in the department of Religion and the department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. Among his publications are The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy (Stanford, 2003), Blood: A Critique of Christianity (Columbia, 2014) and more recently Qu’appelle-t-on destruction? Heidegger, Derrida (Montreal, 2017).
Omer Bartov is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University. His many books include Hitler’s Army (1991), Mirrors of Destruction (2000), Germany’s War and the Holocaust (2003), The “Jew” in Cinema (2005), Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine (2007), and Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018). He is currently engaged in researching a new book tentatively titled “Israel, Palestine: A Personal Political History.”
Bashir Bashir is a senior lecturer in the department of sociology, political science and communication at the Open University of Israel and a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. His primary research interests include nationalism and citizenship studies, multiculturalism, democratic theory, and the politics of reconciliation. He has published on these issues in Res Publica, Citizenship Studies, Journal of Genocide Research, Ethical Perspectives, Middle East Journal, and Political Studies. He is the co-editor of The Politics of Reconciliation in Multicultural Societies (Oxford University Press, 2008).
Omri Ben Yehuda is Minerva (Max-Planck Gesellschaft) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for German Philology at Freie Universität Berlin and was the head of the research group Gaza: Towards the Landscape of an Israeli Hetrotopia at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. He has published extensively on Franz Kafka, Mizrahi literature, S. Y. Agnon and Ch. N. Bialik. His book The Speech Act of Kafka and Agnon will be published in 2018 with Mossad Bialik Publishers. His second book, Auseinandergeschrieben: The Collapse of Storytelling in Modern Jewish Literature, will be published by The Hebrew University Magnes Press in 2019.
Tal Ben Zvi, curator and researcher of Israeli and Palestinian art, was the vice president of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem and the head of the School of Arts at Kibbutzim College of Education, Tel Aviv. She is the author of The Story of a Monument: Land Day Sakhneen (Mossawa Center, Haifa, 2016) [with Shadi Khalilieh, Jaffar Farah]; Sabra: Contemporary Palestinian Art (Reslingm, 2014); Men in the Sun, (Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, 2009) [with Hanna Farah-Kufer Bir'im]; Hagar—Contemporary Palestinian Art (Hagar Association, 2006).
Alon Confino is professor of history and Jewish studies and Pen Tishkach Chair of Holocaust Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he is the director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies. He is now at work on a book on 1948 in Palestine and Israel.
Yochi Fischer is a historian and the deputy director of the Van leer Jerusalem Institute. Her research interests include religion and secularization, and questions of memory and representation. At the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Fischer heads several collaborative projects on questions of humanism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. She is the editor of Secularization and Secularism: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Van Leer Institute Press and Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2015).
Honaida Ghanim is a Palestinian sociologist and anthropologist. She has published various articles and studies in the fields of political and cultural sociology and gender studies. Her book Reinventing the Nation: Palestinian Intellectuals and Persons of Pen in Israel 1948-2000 (in Hebrew, Hebrew University, 2009). She is the editor of On Recognition of the Jewish State (in English, Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies [MADAR], 2014), and the co-editor of On the Meaning of a Jewish State (in Arabic, MADAR, 2011). Since 2009 she has been serving as the chief editor of MADAR’s Strategic Report.
Amos Goldberg teaches Holocaust studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His major fields of research are the cultural history of the Jews in the Holocaust, Holocaust historiography, and Holocaust memory in a global world. Among his recent publications: Trauma in First Person: Diary Writing During the Holocaust (Indiana UP, 2017), and a co-edited volume with Haim Hazan, Marking Evil: Holocaust Memory in the Global Age (Berghahn, 2015).
Hannan Hever is the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature and Comparative Literature at Yale University and professor emeritus at the Hebrew University. He teaches at Yale in the Comparative Literature Department and is affiliated with the Program of Judaic Studies. He has published extensively about modern Hebrew literature and culture and the theory of literature and culture from political, post-national and post-colonial perspectives. Among his books are Nativism, Zionism and Beyond: Three Essays on Nativist Hebrew Poetry, (Rudolph Lectures, Syracuse University, 2014); To Inherit the Land, to Conquer the Space: The Beginning of Hebrew Poetry in Eretz-Israel (in Hebrew, Mossad Bialik, 2015); We Are Broken Rhymes: The Politics of Trauma in Israeli Literature (in Hebrew, Magnes Press, 2017).
Mustafa Kabha is professor in the department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies and the head of the center for the study of relations between Jews, Christians and Muslims at the Open University of Israel. His books include Writing up The Storm–The Palestinian Press Shaping Public Opinion (Vallentine Mitchell Academic, 2007); (with D. Caspi), The Palestinian Arab In/Outsiders. Media and Conflict in Israel (Vallentine Mitchell, 2011); and The Palestinian People: Seeking Sovereignty (Lynne Rienner, 2013).
Elias Khoury is a Lebanese novelist and literary critic and scholar, editor of Majallat Al Dirassat Al Falistinia (Journal of Palestine Studies). He taught at New York University and the Lebanese American University and the Lebanese University. He has published fourteen novels and four books of literary criticism. His novels have been translated into fifteen languages. He has nine novels translated in English and published in the United States and Great Britain. His new novel, The Children of the Ghetto: My Name Is Adam is coming out in an English translation in the fall of 2018.
Nadim Khoury is a postdoctoral fellow in philosophy at the Arctic University of Norway (University of Tromsø) and Associate Professor II in International studies at Bjørknes University College. His research interests include the history of political theory, nationalism, and the politics of memory. He has published on these issues in the European Journal of International Relations, Nations and Nationalism, and Constellations. Currently, he is completing a book manuscript on the dynamics of national narratives in times of war and peace.
Mark Levene is reader in comparative history at the University of Southampton. His writing ranges across genocide, Jewish history, and environmental and peace issues, especially focusing on anthropogenic climate change. His most recent works include the two-volume The Crisis of Genocide: The European Rimlands, 1912–1953 (Oxford, 2013).
Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin teaches at the department of Jewish history, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and is a fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem institute. He studies both early modern Christian-Jewish discourse and Zionist historical consciousness. Among his publications are The Censor, the Editor and the Text: Catholic Censorship and Hebrew Literature in the Sixteenth Century (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007); Exil et Souveraineté (Paris: La fabrique, 2007; preface by Carlo Ginzburg).
Jacqueline Rose is professor of Humanities and co-director of the Birkbeck Institute of the Humanities, London University. Her books include States of Fantasy (1996), The Question of Zion (2005), The Last Resistance (Verso Radical Thinkers, 2007), Women in Dark Times (2014), and most recently, Mothers–An Essay on Love and Cruelty (2018). The Jacqueline Rose Reader was published in 2011. She is the co-founder of Independent Jewish Voices in the UK and a Fellow of the British Academy.
Yehouda Shenhav (PhD Stanford University 1985) is professor of sociology at Tel Aviv University; member of the Scientific Committee at the Institut d'Études Avancées de Nantes; and chief editor of Maktoob, which publishes translations from Arabic to Hebrew at the Van Leer Institute.
Raef Zeik is the academic co-director of the Minerva Center for the humanities at Tel Aviv University and an associate professor at Ono Academic College. Raef is senior researcher at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. His research interests include legal and political theory, citizenship and identity, and legal interpretation. His recent publications include “Kant, Time and Revolution,” forthcoming in Graduate Faculty Journal of Philosophy, 2018 and “When Does the Settler Become Native?” in Constellation, 2016.