Dr. Awad Mansour is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Institute for Global Studies. Before joining the teaching staff at the Faculty of Arts at Al-Quds University in 1996, he was a researcher at the Palestine Human Rights Information Center (PHRIC) in Jerusalem where he contributed to the publications and in writing reports to various UN committees. Dr. Mansour’s research interests are: settler-colonialism, the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Orientalism, modern state-formation and global studies. He has several publications.