Qumsiyeh.org
Title
Sharing the Land of Canaan - Home
Description
Excerpted from the website:
- "Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD served on the faculty of both Duke and Yale Universities (six and five years respectively). He is currently serving on the Steering Committee of the US Camaign to End the Occupation (endtheoccupation.org), the executive commttee of the Palestinian American Congress (http://www.pac-national.org/), and the board of the Association for One Democratic State in Israel/Palestine (one-democratic-state.org). His third and latest book is titled "Sharing the Land of Canaan: human rights and the Israeli/Palestinian Struggle". He also has an activism book published electronically on the web (http://qumsiyeh.org). His main interest is media activism and public education. He published over 200 letters to the editor and 100 op-ed pieces and interviewed in TV and radio extensively (local, national and international). He was founder and president of the Holy Land Conservation Foundation and ex-President of the Middle East Genetics Association. He won the Jallow activism award from the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee in 1998. He is a cofounder of a number of groups including Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition (see http://al-awda.org), Triangle Middle East Dialogue (interfaith) and the Carolina Middle East Association, AcademicsForJustice.org and BoycottIsraeliGoods.org campaigns. Appearances in national media included the Washington Post, New York Times, Boston Globe, CNBC, C-Span, and ABC, among others. He is a member of a number of human rights groups (Amnesty, Peace action, Human Rights Watch, ACLU etc.). He advised and/or participated ina number of other groups from Palestine Freedom Project to Sabeel to National Council of Churches of Christ USA. In CT, he is Vice Chair of the Middle East Crisis Committee (http://TheStruggle.org) and volunteers and participates with several other local groups including CTUnitedforPeace.org and We Refuse to be Enemies. "
Languages
English
