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She has worked with a number of organizations, including the [[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]] in [[Paris]] (1993 - 1996) and the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute in [[Ramallah]] (1998 - 1999).<ref name=LiberalArts>{{cite web|title=Political Science Faculty|publisher=[[University of Massachusetts Boston]]|accessdate=2007-09-11|url=http://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/dept/polisci/faculty/farsakh.html}}</ref>
She has worked with a number of organizations, including the [[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]] in [[Paris]] (1993 - 1996) and the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute in [[Ramallah]] (1998 - 1999).<ref name=LiberalArts>{{cite web|title=Political Science Faculty|publisher=[[University of Massachusetts Boston]]|accessdate=2007-09-11|url=http://www.umb.edu/academics/cla/dept/polisci/faculty/farsakh.html}}</ref>


In 2001 she won the Peace and Justice Award from the [http://www.ci.cambridge.ma.us/dept/peace.html Cambridge Peace Commission] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]].<ref name=LiberalArts/>
In 2001 she won the Peace and Justice Award from the [https://web.archive.org/web/20030202132356/http://www.ci.cambridge.ma.us/dept/peace.html Cambridge Peace Commission] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]].<ref name=LiberalArts/>


Farsakh is the Project Co-Director for Jerusalem 2050, a problem-solving project jointly sponsored by [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]'s Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the Center for International Studies.<ref name=Jerusalem2050>{{cite web|title=People|publisher=Jerusalem 2050|accessdate=2007-09-11|url=http://web.mit.edu/CIS/jerusalem2050/people.html}}</ref> She has written extensively on issues related to the Palestinian economy and the [[Oslo Accords|Oslo peace process]], international migration and regional integration.<ref name=Jerusalem2050/>
Farsakh is the Project Co-Director for Jerusalem 2050, a problem-solving project jointly sponsored by [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]'s Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the Center for International Studies.<ref name=Jerusalem2050>{{cite web|title=People|publisher=Jerusalem 2050|accessdate=2007-09-11|url=http://web.mit.edu/CIS/jerusalem2050/people.html}}</ref> She has written extensively on issues related to the Palestinian economy and the [[Oslo Accords|Oslo peace process]], international migration and regional integration.<ref name=Jerusalem2050/>
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*''[http://mondediplo.com/2007/03/07binational Time for a Bi-National State]'', March 2007 [[Le Monde diplomatique]] (also published in: ''[http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6702.shtml Israel-Palestine: Time for a bi-national state]'', 20 March 2007 Electronic Intifada,
*''[http://mondediplo.com/2007/03/07binational Time for a Bi-National State]'', March 2007 [[Le Monde diplomatique]] (also published in: ''[http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6702.shtml Israel-Palestine: Time for a bi-national state]'', 20 March 2007 Electronic Intifada,
*''[https://web.archive.org/web/20060911184743/http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~mideast/conference/Farsakh_outline.pdf The Economics of Israeli Occupation: What is Colonial about it?]'', 2006
*''[https://web.archive.org/web/20060911184743/http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~mideast/conference/Farsakh_outline.pdf The Economics of Israeli Occupation: What is Colonial about it?]'', 2006
*''[http://www.pol-sci.umb.edu/papers/Farsakh_MEJ_2005.pdf Independence, Cantons, or Bantustans: Whither the Palestinian State?]''[http://www.mideasti.org/articles/doc396.html] vol.59, no.2, Spring 2005, [[Middle East Journal]]
*''[http://www.pol-sci.umb.edu/papers/Farsakh_MEJ_2005.pdf Independence, Cantons, or Bantustans: Whither the Palestinian State?]''[https://web.archive.org/web/20070813212849/http://www.mideasti.org/articles/doc396.html] vol.59, no.2, Spring 2005, [[Middle East Journal]]
*''[http://cadmus.iue.it/dspace/retrieve/1944/04_40.pdf The Political Economy of Agrarian Change in the West Bank and Gaza Strip]'', Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Working Paper, European University Institute, 2004.
*''[http://cadmus.iue.it/dspace/retrieve/1944/04_40.pdf The Political Economy of Agrarian Change in the West Bank and Gaza Strip]'', Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Working Paper, European University Institute, 2004.
*''[http://mondediplo.com/2003/11/04apartheid Israel: An Apartheid State? ]'' November 2003, Le Monde diplomatique
*''[http://mondediplo.com/2003/11/04apartheid Israel: An Apartheid State? ]'' November 2003, Le Monde diplomatique
*''Palestinian Labor Flows to Israel: A Finished Story?''[http://www.palestine-studies.org/final/en/journals/abstract.php?aid=4555&jid=1&iid=125&vid=XXXII&vol=184],[http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/abs/10.1525/jps.2002.32.1.13?prevSearch=authorsfield%3A(Farsakh%2CL)] issue 125, Autumn 2002, [[Journal of Palestine Studies]],<!--on her web-site she gives the ref. "vol. 32, no.1, Autumn 2002."...-->
*''Palestinian Labor Flows to Israel: A Finished Story?''[https://web.archive.org/web/20070317083051/http://www.palestine-studies.org/final/en/journals/abstract.php?aid=4555&jid=1&iid=125&vid=XXXII&vol=184],[http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/abs/10.1525/jps.2002.32.1.13?prevSearch=authorsfield%3A(Farsakh%2CL)] issue 125, Autumn 2002, [[Journal of Palestine Studies]],<!--on her web-site she gives the ref. "vol. 32, no.1, Autumn 2002."...-->
*''[http://www2.www.umb.edu/directory/person_detail.php?id=6356 The Palestinian economy and the Oslo “Peace Process"]'', the Trans-Arab Research Institute, 2001
*''[http://www2.www.umb.edu/directory/person_detail.php?id=6356 The Palestinian economy and the Oslo “Peace Process"]'', the Trans-Arab Research Institute, 2001
*''[http://web.mit.edu/cis/www/mitejmes/issues/200105/farsakh.htm Economic Viability of a Palestinian State in the West Bank and Gaza Strip: Is it Possible without Territorial Integrity and Sovereignty?]'', MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies, May 2001
*''[http://web.mit.edu/cis/www/mitejmes/issues/200105/farsakh.htm Economic Viability of a Palestinian State in the West Bank and Gaza Strip: Is it Possible without Territorial Integrity and Sovereignty?]'', MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies, May 2001

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Leila Farsakh (

MPhil from the University of Cambridge, UK (1990) and a PhD from the University of London (2003).[1]

Farsakh conducted post-doctoral research at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and is also a research affiliate at the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1]

She has worked with a number of organizations, including the

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris (1993 - 1996) and the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute in Ramallah (1998 - 1999).[2]

In 2001 she won the Peace and Justice Award from the Cambridge Peace Commission in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[2]

Farsakh is the Project Co-Director for Jerusalem 2050, a problem-solving project jointly sponsored by Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the Center for International Studies.[3] She has written extensively on issues related to the Palestinian economy and the Oslo peace process, international migration and regional integration.[3]

Farsakh was also a member of the Board at the non-governmental organization RESIST (www.resistinc.org), founded in 1967 to provide grant money and support to grassroots movements advocating for social change.[4]

Interview

Published works

Books (partial list)

  • Palestinian Labour Migration to Israel: Labour, Land, and Occupation (2005). Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom.
  • Commemorating the
    Nakba
    , (guest editor), Electronic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Spring 2008, MIT, Boston, 2008.

*Development Strategies, Employment and International Migration, (co-edited with David O’Connor), OECD Development Center Publications, Paris, 1996.

  • Palestinian Employment in Israel: 1967-1997 (1998). Ramallah.

Articles (partial list)

Public Lectures

References