Dr Wesam Amer is a visiting researcher at Cambridge. Since 2020, Dr Amer has been the Dean of the Faculty of Communication and Languages at Gaza University. He was a Fulbright scholar and researcher at Harvard University’s Centre for Middle Eastern Studies in 2022. He was a Marie Curie fellow at Newcastle University from 2017 to 2020. Dr Amer obtained his PhD from Hamburg University in 2015. His interests in teaching and research centre around political communication, violent language, warfare, and contemporary geopolitics, with a specific focus on terrorism, security, and radicalisation.

Tahrir Hamdi is a professor of anti-colonial and resistance literature and President of Arab Open University in Jordan. Hamdi recently won the Palestine Book Award 2023 in the “Counter Current” category for her book "Imagining Palestine". In 2020, Hamdi won the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation’s Arab Researchers’ Award in the Humanities. Hamdi is an assistant editor with the journal Arab Studies Quarterly. She is also an associate editor in the journal Janus Unbound and a member of the editorial board of Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies. Hamdi has co-edited a new book titled "Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Works".

Rana Dajani is currently a Yidan Global Fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Education, Professor of Molecular Biology at the Hashmite University, Jordan. Her area of expertise is epigenetics and biomarkers of trauma among refugees. Through her leadership, she has introduced national and regional stem cell laws and presided over numerous scientific boards and United Nations councils. She is founder of ‘We Love Reading’ and is on the list of the 100 most influential Arab women.

She is a tireless supporter of building indigenous research capabilities in the developing world has created a mentoring program to support women scholars in STEM that was recognised by the National Academy of Sciences.

Saeed Abuzour is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics and a Mathematics Programme Leader in Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU). He was the Foundation Year Coordinator in the Faculty of Science & Engineering (2013-2024) and the Head of Mathematics Department at Rossall College (2005-2007). He also worked as an Assistant Professor at the UAE University (1993-2004). Saeed is co-founder of the Palestinian Community Association Northwest. Saeed holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Manchester (UMIST) 1991.

Professor Rami Morjan was awarded his PhD from the University of Manchester in 2005. He joined the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG) in 2006. Rami established his research lab in the Chemistry Department at the IUG and was awarded different national and international research grants from the Bank of Palestine and Welfare Association Fund, The World Academy of Sciences, and Al-Maqdisi Research Award. In 2019, Rami founded Orbital Company for Chemical Industries & Cosmotics based in IUG. Orbital is the funding body for the chemistry department scholarships and awards, including scientific extracurricular activities.

Dr Rama Sahtout is a lecturer at the Law School and the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. Her research interests include international law, refugee law, law and politics in the Middle East, and post/decolonial theory.

Naema Wajeeh Aldaqsha is a Postgraduate Teaching Associate and PhD researcher at the European Centre for Palestine Studies, the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Her research focuses on the politics of representation, diplomacy, and political leadership in Palestine. Naema completed her MA in International Relations and Politics at Richmond, the American International University in London and holds a BA in English Linguistics and Literature from Al-Aqsa University in Gaza, Palestine. Naema’s most recent works include an article on pro-Palestinian university encampments and a novella exploring historic Palestine.

Nadia Naser-Najjab is Senior lecturer in Palestine Studies, European Centre for Palestine Studies - Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter. Prior to this, she was an Assistant Professor at Birzeit University, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies and the MA program in Arab Contemporary Studies. Nadia holds a PhD in Middle East Studies from the University of Exeter. Her most recent book published in 2024 is, "Covid-19 in Palestine: The Settler Colonial Context".
She also published "Dialogue in Palestine: The People-to-People Diplomacy Programme and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" (2020).
Nadia's research is based on first-hand experience and original data collection.

Izzat Darwazeh is a professor of Communications Engineer at University College London (UCL) and the founding Director of the Institute of Communications and Connected Systems at UCL. He is the author/co-author of over 350 scientific papers and four books in electronics and communications engineering.
Active in Palestinian and Arab advocacy work in the UK; a co-founder of Manchester Palestine Solidarity Campaign -1986, the UK Arab British Association -2008, the British Palestinian Policy Council -2016 and serves/served on several academic advisory boards including the board of trustees of the Institute of Palestine Studies, the advisory committee of the Centre of Palestine Studies at SOAS-University of London and the board of the Centre of Lebanese Studies.

Dina Matar is professor Political Communication and Arab media at SOAS. She also served as chair of the Centre for Palestine Studies from 2018 to 2024. She has published research on Palestine, including a monograph, "What it means to be Palestinian" (2010); and co-edited collections, "Narrating Conflict in the Middle East" (2013); "Gaza as Metaphor" (2016) and "Producing Palestine: The Creative Production of Palestine through Contemporary Media" (October 2024).

Aseel Abuzour is a British-Palestinian scholar who is a registered pharmacist and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Leeds. She completed her PhD in 2016 in the area of Prescribing and Patient Safety at the University of Manchester investigating clinical reasoning processes in non-medical prescribers. Aseel’s research in medication safety focuses on developing electronic health tools to optimise prescribing and reduce potential medication related harm in hospital and prison healthcare settings. Aseel is also a co-investigator and Public and Patient Involvement and Engagement lead for a project investigating inequalities in overprescribing for older people with frailty and care home residents.

Afaf Jabiri is a Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Centre for Social Justice and Change at the University of East London. With over a decade of experience in interdisciplinary research and teaching, she has held roles at SOAS and LSE. Her research focuses on feminist theory, intersectionality, settler colonialism, and women’s agency in the Arab region, particularly in Palestinian refugee camps, Jordan, Egypt, and Yemen. Before academia, she worked for 17 years on gender equality, humanitarianism, and migrant rights. Afaf has published extensively, including her recent book “Palestinian Refugee Women from Syria to Jordan: Decolonising the Geopolitics of Displacement