Last updated on: 9/21/2015 | Author: ProCon.org

Saree Makdisi, PhD Biography

Title:
Professor of English Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Position:
Con to the question "Is a Two-State Solution (Israel and Palestine) an Acceptable Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?"
Reasoning:

“What is needed now is not more separation but a step toward the cooperative integration of Israelis and Palestinians in one common state…

Israel and the occupied territories already constitute a single geopolitical entity, even if it’s not labeled that way. Palestinians such as Azmi Bishara and Edward Said (when he was alive) have joined with Israelis including Ilan Pappé and Meron Benvenisti to call for a peace founded on that reality, rather than false compromises and ethnic separation. That state would join two peoples whom history has thrust together into one democratic, secular and self-governing community of truly equal citizens.”

“Post Arafat One State,” www.qumsiyeh.org, Nov. 21, 2010

Involvement and Affiliations:
  • Professor of English Literature, UCLA
  • Associate Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and of the Humanities, University of Chicago
Education:
  • PhD, English Literature, Duke University, 1993
  • BA, Wesleyan University, 1987
Other:
  • None found
Quoted in:
  1. Is Israel an Apartheid State?