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The 4.8 million residents of the occupied Palestinian territories live in two simultaneous and vastly different realities. In the physical world, Palestinians are captives, crammed into Gaza or West Bank enclaves and blockaded by Israeli military checkpoints. But on the internet, the checkpoints disappear.
The 4.8 million residents of the occupied Palestinian territories live in two simultaneous and vastly different realities. In the physical world, Palestinians are captives, crammed into Gaza or West Bank enclaves and blockaded by Israeli military checkpoints. But on the internet, the checkpoints disappear.
Eliza Campbell is the director of the MEI Cyber Program. She was previously a researcher in technology and human rights at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University, a 2017-18 Fulbright researcher in Bulgaria, and has worked in the humanitarian field in Jordan. She holds a bachelor's degree in political science and Arabic. She co-edited with Mike Sexton the MEI-published book, Cyber War & Cyber Peace in the Middle East (October 2020).
Spring 2021 Student Participants Dima Balut Dima is a sophomore International Studies and History double major at Southern Methodist University. She is interested in human rights, particularly in the Middle East, because having lived in Lebanon for the majority of her life, she witnessed first-hand how damaging it could be for individuals to not have full rights under the law. This experience in large part is what shaped her passion for the law, and her hopes to attend law school after graduation.
Graduate Fellow Ahmed El-Masry is Graduate Research Fellow with the MEI Cyber Program and a public policy graduate student at the American University in Cairo (AUC). His research focuses on digital policies, cybersecurity, and cyber-politics in the MENA region. El-Masry previously worked as a public policy analyst as well as interning at the European Union Delegation to Egypt and the United Nations Information Centre - Cairo Office. Contact Information This individual is a guest contributor but is not an MEI-affiliated expert. We are not able to assist with contact requests. Latest Publicatio...