Lorenzo Kamel PhD is a Marie Curie experienced researcher at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRAIS) and a senior fellow at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI). He is also a non-resident associate at Harvard University's CMES, where he served as a post-doctoral fellow for two years. Among his most recent books: ‘Arab Spring and Peripheries’ (Routledge 2016) and ‘Imperial Perceptions of Palestine: British Influence and Power in Late Ottoman Times' (I.B. Tauris 2015), shortlisted for the Palestine Book Award 2016.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhy we hate our reflections: Saudi Arabia and the Islamic StateAl Saud might be afraid of many things, but the main threat to their survival comes from within their historical...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia‘Two states’ or ‘one state’ with full citizenship for the Palestinians: a misleading dichotomyThese options distract people from the real priority: to find (or strengthen) practical forms of pressure in support...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAcre and the tragedy of solipsism
The tendency to simplify, deny or demonize the other is very common among Palestinians and Israelis alike. The...
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Published in: HomeOn the “legitimacy” of the colonization of the Palestinian territoriesThe commonly propagated support for Israeli settlement of the Palestinian territories is based on a selective use of...