An Environmental Nakba: The climate crisis and the crisis in Gaza
A conversation of the #ReadPalestine initiative of the Publishers for Palestine
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How is the crisis in Gaza tied with the overall climate crisis? And why should one who cares about the climate care for the liberation of Palestinians? For #ReadPalestine, come discuss and learn about the intertwined struggles from Palestinian researchers Mazin B. Qumsiyeh and Mohammad A. Abusarhan in their piece "An Environmental Nakba", published in Science for the People vol. 23.1.
The article can be read on the https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/ website.
About the Authors
Mazin B. Qumsiyeh is a professor and researcher at Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities. He previously served on the faculties of the University of Tennessee, Duke University, and Yale University. He and his wife returned to Palestine in 2008 to start a number of institutions and projects, including the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability (PIBS) at Bethlehem University. He, his wife, and volunteers and staff at PIBS have “joyful participation in the sorrows of this world” and make a difference for sustainability of nature and human communities.
Mohammed A. Abusarhan is a masters student in biotechnology at Bethlehem University and Palestine Polytechnic University. He earned a degree in Biology from Bethlehem University. Since 2017, he has worked at the Palestine Museum of Natural History as a Museum Biologist conducting animal collecting, taxidermy, and identification. His research interests are focused on conservation, museum digitization, biodiversity databases, and bat echolocation. He has published several research articles and spent the summer of 2019 in Germany in a prestigious laboratory as an exchange researcher.
An Environmental Nakba: The Palestinian Environment Under Israeli Colonization
By Mazin B. Qumsiyeh and Mohammed A. Abusarhan
Volume 23, number 1, Science Under Occupation