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Since her departure from the foreign service, she has contributed to various academic and media publications. She led election observer missions to Palestine, Madagascar and South Sudan. She served as a senior diplomat in the South African foreign service, focusing on the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. Zeenat Adam is an international relations strategist, entrepreneur and political opinion writer. He is the founder and president of the Palestine Land Society He is the author of six books and over 300 articles and papers on Palestine, including The Atlas of Palestine, 1917–1966 (2010). An engineer by profession, he is best known for his cartographic work on Palestine and his work on the Palestinian Right of Return. Salman Abu Sitta was born in 1937 in Ma‘in Abu Sitta, in the Beersheba district of mandate Palestine. In July 2001, Susan Abulhawa founded Playgrounds for Palestine, a children's organization dedicated to upholding The Right to Play for Palestinian children. She moved to the USA as a teenager, graduated in biomedical science and established a career in medical science. She was born to refugees of the Six Day War of 1967, when her family's land was seized and Israel captured what remained of Palestine, including Jerusalem. Susan Abulhawa is a Palestinian writer and the author of the international bestselling novel, Mornings in Jenin, which was published in nineteen countries. Abuirshaid completed his PhD in Political Science at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. He is an American Muslim community leader and speaker. He authored or coauthored several books in Arabic and he published dozens of studies and articles in Arabic and English, on issues relevant to the Middle East and its political climate. He is a regular commentator on Palestinian and Middle Eastern affairs as well as on the American domestic and foreign policy on various Arabic satellite T.V. He lectures frequently on Middle East and American politics. He is a non-resident scholar at the Doha-based Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS).
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Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), an umbrella organization of eight major national American Muslim organizations. Osama Abuirshaid is the Executive Director and a board member of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP). Her publications include “Whose 1960s? Gender, Resistance and Liberation in Palestine,” “Imagining Freedom, Justice, and Peace in the Age of Empire,” and “Debating Palestine: Representation, Resistance and Liberation.” Abdulhadi received her BA in 1994 from Hunter College, and received her MA, MPhil, and PhD degrees from Yale University in 1995, 1998, and 2000, respectively. Rabab Abdulhadi is a professor of sociology at San Fransisco State University, where she focuses on Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas and Race and Resistance Studies.