I am an Assistant Professor in the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa. My research interests include: political economy, settler colonialism, and labour movements. More specifically, I have researched Labour Zionism, Palestinian Labour, Israel's regional normalisation, and its natural gas extraction in the Meidterranean. I have also written on contemporary antisemitism and its political (mis)uses.

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Fields of interest

My research interests include: Political Economy, settler colonialism, and labour movements. More specifically, I have researched Labour Zionism, Palestinian Labour, Israel's regional normalisation, and its natural gas extraction in the Meidterranean. I have also written on contemporary antisemitism and its political (mis)uses.

Research

My post-PhD research focused on the contemporary role of the Labour Zionsit movement in the colonisation of Palestine, and - more broadly - social relations in settler colonial contextes. I have published a book on the subject - Settler Colonialism: an Introduction (Pluto Press), co-edited another - From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine (Verso) -, and am currently finalising a new book: Striking Settlers: Israeli Workers and the Colonisation of Palestine (Verso).

My next project focusses on Israel's regional integration. It engages with the consequences of the discovery of large reserves of natural gas in the East Mediterranean, its integration wuth its neighbours (especially Jordan and Egypt), its growing economic and diplomatic rapprochement with GCC states - especially the UAE -, and the ways in which normalisation facilitates the acceleration and deepening of its settler colonial project in Palestine.

CV

2013-2018: PhD in Development Studies, School of Oriental & African Studies, Title: The Defeat of Hebrew Labour? Neoliberalism, Settler Colonialism, & the Workers’ Movement in Israel.
2010 -2011: MA in Social & Political Thought, Sussex University
2007-2010: BA in English Literature & Drama, Sussex University

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