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Sharif Hamadeh

Sharif Hamadeh is an advisor with an international development consultancy. He was a founding editor of the LIP magazine and his writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Star (Lebanon), and The Jordan Times among other publications. Between October 2004 and September 2005, Sharif was employed as a Human Rights Advocacy and Development Fellow with Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel. He holds a BA in English & Related Literature from the University of York and an MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford.

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