Naseer H. Aruri

Naseer H. Aruri "is Chancellor Professor (Emeritus) of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. He is Chair of the Board of Directors of the Trans-Arab Research Institute (Boston), a member of the Palestine Center Committee (Washington, D.C.), and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Institute for Criminal Investigations (The Hague). He is a member of the Independent Palestinian Commission for the Protection of Citizens Rights (Ramallah) since its inception in January l994, a Founding Member of the Arab Organization for Human Rights, Cairo and Geneva in 1982, and a member of the editorial board of Third World Quarterly (London). He was also a member of the Board of Directors of Human Rights Watch/Middle East, 1990-1992, and a three-term member of the Board of Directors of Amnesty International, USA (1984-1990). Born in Jerusalem, Palestine, he holds a Ph.D (Political Science) from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He served on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth from 1965 to 1998. His many publications include The Palestinian Resistance to Israeli Occupation (1970), Enemy of the Sun: Poems of Palestinian Resistance, with Edmund Ghareeb (1970), Occupation: Israel Over Palestine (1983), The Obstruction of Peace: The U.S., Israel and the Palestinians (1995), and Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return (Pluto, 2001). His latest book is Dishonest Broker: The U.S. Role In Israel and Palestine (South End Press, 2003)."


 * Director, Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development
 * Advisory Board, US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
 * Advisory Board, Grassroots International