Palestinian Studies

2025 Workshop

Amahl Bishara

Professor of Anthropology and Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University.

Amahl Bishara is a Professor of Anthropology and Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University. Bishara’s research revolves around expression, space, media, and settler colonialism. She is the author of Back Stories: U.S. News Production and Palestinian Politics (Stanford University Press 2013) and the producer of "Degrees of Incarceration" (2010), an hour-long documentary that explores how, with creativity and love, a Palestinian community responds to the crisis of political imprisonment.