Palestine: A Socialist Introduction

Sumaya Awad is a Palestinian writer, analyst, and socialist organizer based in New York City. Her writings focus on Palestinian liberation, anti-imperialism, Islamophobia, and immigration, and have been featured in the Feminist Wire, In These Times, Open City, the Middle East Solidarity Magazine, and Slate, among others. Sumaya is the coauthor of “Palestine and Elections “ in the collection Socialist Strategy and Electoral Politics, released by Verso Books, Jacobin Magazine, and Haymarket Books in 2019. She has spoken widely at universities and grassroots organizations across the country, and is a cofounder of the Against Canary Mission Project, which helps defend student activists targeted by blacklists for their Palestinian rights advocacy.

brian bean is a Chicago-based socialist activist, writer, and speaker originally from North Carolina. He is one of the founding editors ofRampantmagazine. His work has been published inJacobin, Socialist Worker, Red Flag, International Viewpoint, Bel Ahmar(¿¿¿¿¿¿¿),Spring Magazine, Green Left Weekly, Chronique de Palestine, Agency, Viento Sur, and more.