Email: a.salhab@qmul.ac.uk
Supervisors: Professor Laleh Khalili, Dr Nivi Manchanda
Research topic: My PhD research project looks at the Palestinian experience of establishing national institutions in the aftermath of the 1948 Nakba, and examines the organising practices and debates around sovereignty and self-determination that informed and accompanied these efforts.
Research Interests: anti-colonialism, sovereignty, Third World solidarity, Palestinian politics and history, internationalism
Education:
Work experience: Prior to joining QMUL, I have worked as a migrant justice organiser in London and as a campaign coordinator of an initiative to reactivate Palestinian national institutions.
I also volunteer as a member of the British Society for Middle East Studies’ Committee on Academic Freedom
Publications:
Salhab, A. (2023). Stitching together the threads of internationalism: London in anti-imperial organising. Race & Class, 65(1), 45-60 (journal article).
Salhab, A. (2017). The Legacy of the Palestinian Revolution: Reviving Organising for the Next Generation in Choudry, Aziz and Vally, Salim, Reflections on Knowledge, Learning and Social Movements: History’s Schools, Routledge, Oxford (book chapter).
Selected Writing and Media Work:
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, with Sorcha Thomson, History Workshops Online
The Legacy of Colonial Policing, from Occupied Palestine to the United Kingdom, Institute for Palestine Studies blog
Jerusalem Youth at the Forefront of 2021’s Unity Intifada, with Dahoud al-Ghoul, Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP)
Activist Akram Salhab on the Palestinian experience of colonialism. Channel 4 News