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Zaha Hassan

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Senior Fellow, Middle East Program

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Zaha Hassan is a human rights lawyer and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her research focus is on Palestine-Israel peace, the use of international legal mechanisms by political movements, and U.S. foreign policy in the region. Previously, she was the coordinator and senior legal advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team during Palestine’s bid for UN membership, and was a member of the Palestinian delegation to Quartet-sponsored exploratory talks between 2011 and 2012.

She regularly participates in track II peace efforts and is a contributor to The Hill and Haaretz. Her commentaries have appeared in the New York Times, Salon, Al Jazeera English, CNN, and others.


Book
Suppressing Dissent: Shrinking Civic Space, Transnational Repression and Palestine–Israel

    Zaha Hassan, H. A. Hellyer

Affiliations

  • Middle East

Areas of Expertise

Foreign PolicyMiddle EastIsraelPalestineDemocracyLevant

Education

BA, Political Science and Near East Languages and Civilizations, University of Washington, Seattle, JD, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, LLM, Transnational and International Law, Willamette University School of Law

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