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Rima Najjar

Rima Najjar is a professor of English literature at Al Quds University. She is one of the contributing writers for Al Jazeera English - Global News in a Changing World, and her essay “No Ordinary Place: Writers and Writing in Occupied Palestine” is published in World Literature Today.

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Reinstate Justice at the University of Illinois: An Open Letter to Chancellor Phyllis Wise
Chancellor Phyllis Wise University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Dear Chancellor Wise: I write as the organiser of an online petition supporting Professor Steven Salaita's reinstatement which has garnered 16,670 signatories as of this writing. I call upon you and the University of Illinois at Urbana...
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