Jehad Abusalim
Jehad Abusalim, from Deir al-Balah, Palestine, is the education and policy fellow at the American Friends Service Committee in Chicago and a PhD candidate in history at New York University. He studies Arab intellectual writing on Zionism from the early-to-mid twentieth century, as well as the socia…
|Name|
Jehad Abusalim
| Studies & specialisation |
PhD candidate in history, Middle Eastern and Israel studies, New York University
|Current residence & work|
United States — education and policy fellow, Palestine Advocacy Program — American Friends Service Committee (Chicago)
Brief profile|
Jehad Abusalim, from Deir al-Balah, Palestine, is the education and policy fellow at the American Friends Service Committee in Chicago and a PhD candidate in history at New York University. He studies Arab intellectual writing on Zionism from the early-to-mid twentieth century, as well as the social and political history of the Gaza Strip, focusing on the Nakba's impact on life in the Gaza region of Palestine and on political life in the Strip during the 1950s. Jehad has published essays in the Nakba Files, Al Jazeera English, Palestine Square, the Journal of Palestine Studies, and Vox, and contributed to the anthology "Gaza as Metaphor" with a chapter titled "From Fence to Fence: Gaza's Story Retold", and most recently to the anthology "Palestine: A Socialist Introduction".
|A word you want to say to Pal-Think|
Pal-Think was my first institutional, political, and cultural home during my university years. Through my work and volunteering at Pal-Think I accumulated great intellectual, political, academic, and professional experience that widened my horizons, developed my character, and inspired me to pursue further professional and academic growth. My work at Pal-Think was a rare experience: my knowledge of the Palestinian reality deepened more and more, while at the same time Pal-Think connected me to the outside world through seminars with Arab and foreign politicians, diplomats, and thinkers. And Pal-Think's work was not confined to the elite level — it also extended into supporting youth and their political participation.