Weaponizing Water to Erase Palestine

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• Amahl Bishara is Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University. She is the author of Crossing
  a Line: Laws, Violence, and Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression (Stanford 2022),
  about different conditions of expression for and exchange between Palestinian citizens of
  Israel and Palestinians in the West Bank, and Back Stories: U.S. News Production and
  Palestinian Politics (Stanford University Press 2013), an ethnography of the production of U.S.
  news during the second Palestinian intifada. For over 10 years, she has collaborated with
  scientists and activists in Boston and Aida Refugee Camp, Palestine to study and address
  water quality and quantity issues in Aida Camp
• Abdel Rahman Al Tamimi is the general director of the Palestinian Hydrology Group,
  general secretary of the Green Party-Palestine, and a leading expert in water-resource
  governance, policy, and institutional reform. He holds degrees from several universities,
  including Harvard’s Kennedy School. With over 25 years of experience in water
  management and integrated rural development, he has authored over 40 publications
  including Water Privatization and Regional Political Agenda. He lectures part-time at Al-
  Quds University and the Arab American University, and has advised the UNDP, GTZ, EU,
  AFD, and World Bank, while serving on national committees for climate-change adaptation.
• Mohammed Mourtaja is a development policy specialist from Gaza. He is a research and
  policy consultant on an NGO’s Israel-Palestine team, where he has authored papers on Gaza’s
  reconstruction, and the founder of Gazalndex, an independent data platform. He also serves
  as programs associate at the Gaza Genocide Center. His work focuses on Palestinian political
  economy, reconstruction, and humanitarian governance, evaluating how Israeli structural
  control over border crossings restricts vital infrastructure, including the water and sanitation
  sectors. Educated in Gaza until he was 18, he holds an M.Phil. in Development Studies
  from the University of Cambridge and a B.A. in Economics from Washington and Lee University.
• Nancy Murray (Moderaor) is the cofounder of the Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine
  and cofounder and president of the Massachusetts-based Gaza Mental Health Foundation.
  She has been an activist for peace with justice in the Middle East since 1988, traveling often
  to the West Bank and Gaza Strip. She has taught at universities and prisons and worked on
  human rights issues in the United Kingdom and Kenya. Nancy served as director of
  education at the ACLU of Massachusetts for 25 years. She is the author of Palestinians: Life
  Under Occupation and several book chapters and articles on Israel/Palestine.