Maha Nassar, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona and a Public Voices Fellow with the OpEd Project. She is the author of Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World (Stanford University Press, 2018).
Posts by Maha Nassar, Ph.D.
Gaza's Remarkable Women
Two weeks before her twentieth birthday, Asmaa Tayeh wrote, “I have spent my life so far in a prison called Gaza, which is in Palestine. I call it a prison because if you committed a crime and were sentenced to prison for 20 years, you would be unable to do anything except eat, drink, sleep and maybe study–achieving nothing. And that’s all that’s possible here...” (This article was first published in garnet news)