Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and an Associate Professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick in the Department of Africana Studies and the Program in Criminal Justice. Her research interests include human rights law, humanitarian law, national security law, refugee law, social justice, and critical race theory.

Noura is also a Co-Founding Editor of Jadaliyya, an electronic magazine on the Middle East that combines scholarly expertise and local knowledge.

She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019).

A conversation with Rev. Dr. Stephen Sizer. A retired Christ Church Vicar and the founder and director of “Peacemaker Trust”, the chair of “Convivencia Alliance”, a cross-faith, international initiative for a just peace in the Middle East, in particular in Palestine.

Stephen's PhD thesis examined the historical roots, theological basis and political consequences of Christian Zionism in Britain and the USA from 1820. He is the author of “Christian Zionism: Roadmap to Armageddon” and “Zion’s Christian Soldiers: The Bible, Israel and the Church”. 

Stephen has written a summary of his book “Zion’s Christian Soldiers: The Bible, Israel and the Church”, that outlines responses to biblical narratives that relate Israel to the church.

A link to a downloadable copy of this summary is available here.

A link to a downloadable copy of Stephen’s book “Christian Zionism: Roadmap to Armageddon” is available here.

Ashira is a Palestinian journalist, activist, therapist, motivational speaker and the creator of Active Meditation, a healing modality focusing on trauma therapy and integration. She specializes in addressing the trauma experienced by Palestinians, drawing upon her own personal journey of healing from full-body paralysis with a severed spinal cord in 2012.

Ashira Darwish has featured in the powerful film "Where Olive Trees Weep" released early 2024 which is currently being screened worldwide.

Professor Saree Makdisi is a Palestinian Lebanese American academic at UCLA, author of "Tolerance is a wasteland: Palestine and the culture of denial" and co-host of Makdisi Street podcast

A conversation with Professor Khaled Hroub.

Professor Khaled is a Palestinian professor in residence of the faculty of liberal arts at North Western University in Qatar. He authored several books, including "Hamas: A Beginners Guide", "Hamas: Political Thought and Practice", and edited "Political Islam: Context versus Ideology" and "Religious Broadcasting in the Middle East".