Leila Farsakh
Palestinian

Leila Farsakh, a Palestinian economist, is a research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for International Studies. She also works with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University and the Trans-Arab Research Institute in Boston. Holding a PhD in development economics from the University of London, she has published numerous articles and studies on issues related to the Palestinian economy and the Oslo process, international migration, and regional integration. She has worked at both the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris and the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute in Ramallah. She is a founding member of the Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights, a member of the American-Arabs Anti-Discrimination Committee, Massachusetts chapter, and the recipient of the Peace and Justice Award from the Cambridge Peace Commission in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Dr. Farsakh's peace-building activities include:

• conducting and publishing the studies The Peace Process and Labour Flows to Israel in the Interim Period: A Critical Assessment of Labour-Related Articles in the Protocol on Economic Relations between Israel and the PLO and Palestinian Employment in Israel 1967-1997: A Review;
• organizing the Palestine Refugee Right of Return Seminar Series, sponsored by the Trans-Arab Research Institute and the Arab Students at MIT; and
• studying and writing on the economic viability of a Palestinian state.

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