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:
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“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 PappĂ© 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:
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- Professor of English Literature, UCLA
- Associate Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and of the Humanities, University of Chicago
- Education:
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- PhD, English Literature, Duke University, 1993
- BA, Wesleyan University, 1987
- Other:
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