Samera Esmeir

Samera Esmeir is a former lawyer who received her PhD from the Institute of Law and Society, New York University, and now teaches in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the coeditor and cofounder of Adalah’s Review, a socio-legal journal published in Arabic, Hebrew and English that focuses on the Palestinian minority in Israel. Her main areas of research are colonialism, modernity, law, war and violence with a particular focus on Egypt, the 1967 Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel.