Story Transcript LIA TARACHANSKY, PRODUCER, TRNN: Over the past few weeks, protests in Jerusalem intensified, escalating this week. On Tuesday, riots took place in nine neighborhoods of East Jerusalem as a result of Israeli security forces closing the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Solidarity protests also took place in various West Bank cities and in Jaffa. […]
Author Archives: Toufic Haddad
Toufic Haddad is a Palestinian-American writer. He is the co-author of Between the Lines: Readings in Israel, the Palestinians and the U.S ‘War on Terror’ (Haymarket Books, 2007, together with Tikva Honig-Parnass). He is a frequent commentator on Palestinian affairs. His writings on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have been featured in a wide collection of print and online media including The National, Al Jazeera, Journal of Palestine Studies, International Socialist Review, Jadaliyya, and Al Akhbar, among others. He is currently a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Development Studies at the School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, where he is also finishing his Phd researching the political economy of neoliberal approaches to conflict resolution and state-building in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.