Nasser Abourahme

Nasser Abourahme is a writer and teacher, currently Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at Bowdoin College; he's the author of The Time beneath the Concrete: Palestine between Camp and Colony, forthcoming next year with Duke University Press.

Daniel Boyarin

Daniel Boyarin, Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture and rhetoric, UC Berkeley ret. received his Ph. D. in 1975 from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. He has been an NEH Fellow (twice), a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem, a holder of the Berlin Prize at the American Academy in Berlin and a Ford Foundation Fellow. He spent the academic year 2012-2013 as a fellow of the Wissenschaft Kolleg in Berlin and was a von Humboldt Forschung Preisträger at the FU Berlin in 2017. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2006. Boyarin has written extensively on talmudic and midrashic studies, and his work has focused on cultural studies in rabbinic Judaism, including issues of gender and sexuality as well as research on the Jews as a colonized and colonizing people. His most recent research interests centered primarily around questions of the relationship of Judaism and Christianity in late antiquity and the genealogy of the concepts of “religion” and “Judaism.” His most recent book is The No-State Solution: a Jewish Manifesto, published by Yale University Press in 2023. 

Faisal Bhabha

Faisal A. Bhabha is an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Canada, where he also serves as the Faculty Director of the Professional LLM in Constitutional Law. He researches, teaches, and publishes in the areas of constitutional law, human rights, employment law, and legal ethics. In conjunction with his academic research and teaching, Faisal maintains a small law practice, advising and representing a variety of individuals and public interest organizations in matters pertaining to constitutional law and human rights. He appears before administrative boards and tribunals and at all levels of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada. Faisal previously served as Vice-chair of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (2008-2011). He has appeared as an expert witness before Canadian parliamentary and senate committees and served as a member of the Equity Advisory Group (EAG) of the Law Society of Ontario (2005-2008). He has lectured in many countries, and has lived and worked in Israel/Palestine and South Africa.

Samera Esmeir

Samera Esmeir is associate professor in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is also affiliated with the Program in Critical Theory, Gender and Women’s Studies, and the Center for the Study of Law and Society. Her research and teaching are at the intersection of legal and political theory, Middle East studies, critical theory, and colonial and post-colonial studies. She is the author of Juridical Humanity: A Colonial History (2012), and has published articles on such questions as memory, war, violence, ruins, coloniality, disaster, and internationalism. She is currently completing a manuscript titled The Struggle That Remains: Between World and International. From 2019 to 2024 Esmeir was the senior editor of Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory.

Darryl Li

Darryl Li is an anthropologist and legal scholar thinking mostly about questions of war, law, migration, empire, and racialization in the currents between the Middle East, South Asia, and the Balkans. He is the author of The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity (Stanford University Press, 2020), an ethnographic and archival study of "jihadist foreign fighters" in the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The book develops an anthropological approach to the comparative study of universalism and was awarded the William A. Douglass prize from the Society for the Anthropology of Europe. Li has participated in litigation arising from the "War on Terror" as party counsel, amicus, or expert witness in Alien Tort, material support, denaturalization, immigration detention, asylum, and Guantánamo (habeas and military commissions) proceedings. He is a member of the bar in New York and Illinois and volunteers as an intake attorney for abolitionist bail funds in the Chicago area. In a previous life, he worked for several human rights organizations. 

Heidi Matthews

Heidi Matthews is Assistant Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto, where she co-directs the International and Transnational Law Intensive Program. She researches and teaches in the areas of international and domestic criminal law, the law of war, and law and sexuality. Her work theorizes contemporary shifts in the practice and discourse of the global legal regulation of political violence, with particular attention to history and gender, as well as political, critical and aesthetic theory. She is currently leading a large interdisciplinary grant project developing colonial genocide as a novel analytic framework for understanding the acquisition and maintenance of power in settler colonial contexts. She has served as a law clerk at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and as an intern at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. Her doctoral dissertation was awarded Harvard Law School’s Laylin Prize. Prior to joining Osgoode, she held a British Academy Newton International Fellowship at the SOAS School of Law, University of London.

Liron Mor

Liron Mor is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of Critical Theory at the University of California, Irvine. Her book, Conflicts: The Poetics and Politics of Palestine-Israel, was published by Fordham University Press in January 2024. Her interdisciplinary research spans the fields of critical and political theory, Hebrew and Arabic literatures, translation and visual studies, and critiques of law, conflict, and colonialism. Mor is particularly interested in local conceptualization of political conditions and modes of resistance as expressed in the cultures of Palestine-Israel. She is currently working on a second book project that examines intentionality as a rhetorical, political, and legal technology of dispossession and racialization as experienced by both Palestinians and Mizrahi Jews.

Fred Moten

Fred Moten studies the social practice of poetry/criticism. He lives in New York and teaches at New York University. His most recent work, in collaboration with Brandon López and Gerald Cleaver, is the blacksmiths, the flowers (Reading Group Records, 2024).