Balliol College
Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3BJ
UK
Dr Abdel Razzaq Takriti and Dr Nimer Sultany will be speaking on ‘Legal and Political Dimensions of the Palestinian Right of Return’ as part of Oxford Israeli Apartheid Week 2015.
Abdel Razzaq Takriti is Lecturer in International History. He previously held a Junior Research Fellowship in Political History at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. His DPhil thesis was on the Dhufar revolution in Oman (1965-1976) and was completed at St Antony’s College, Oxford. It received the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) 2011 Malcolm Kerr Award for Best Dissertation in the Humanities, and was jointly awarded the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) 2011 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for Best PhD Dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities. Abdel Razzaq’s first monograph Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman, 1965-76 is published by OUP.
Nimer Sultany is a Palestinian citizen of Israel and lecturer at SOAS in Law. He is the editor of Citizens Without Citizenship, Israel and the Palestinian Minority 2003, and Israel and the Palestinian Minority 2004.