Naseer Aruri

Naseer H. Aruri (

University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

from 1965-1998. In 1993, he was the recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences “Distinguished Research Award”. Aruri’s papers have been preserved and are on display at the Claire T. Carney Library Archives and Special Collections at UMASS-Dartmouth.

Early life

He was born in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine in 1934. His father was a high school principal in Jerusalem and he and his family split their time between Jerusalem and the West Bank village of Burham, where the family home still stands. Aruri emigrated to the United States in 1954 in order to pursue a college education. He arrived in Springfield, Massachusetts, where his brother, Said, was already a student at the American International College (AIC). He received his B.A. in History from AIC and his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. While a student at AIC, he was "adopted" by the sizeable Lebanese community of Springfield and later married Joyce Thomas, the daughter of a Lebanese immigrant. The couple eventually settled in the Town of Dartmouth, Massachusetts.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Aruri was elected to three consecutive terms as a member of the board of directors of

Universal Declaration on Human Rights at the invitation of the United Nations Staff Union – U.N. Headquarters, New York, on December 9, 1988.^{[citation needed}

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Aruri was a former member of the

Jerusalem Fund and its Palestine Center Committee.^{[citation needed}

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Aruri spoke at universities and scholarly conferences and appeared as a guest on media outlets, including

Alternative Radio.^{[citation needed}

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Aruri has published widely in newspapers, magazines and scholarly journals throughout the Globe. He was the author/editor of books, chiefly on the subject of American foreign policy toward the

Edward W. Said" with Muhammad Shuraydi (Interlink, 2001). His book Dishonest Broker: the U.S. Role in Israel and Palestine, (South End Press 2003) has also been translated into Arabic, Spanish and Italian. He was the co-author (with Samih Farsoun) of Palestine and the Palestinians: A Social and Political History. Second Edition, Westview Press (2006).^{[citation needed}

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He was a harsh critic of the

Palestine Authority (PA), for its complicity in a process that he has described as providing the framework and cover for further Israeli colonization of Palestinian land.^{[citation needed}

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