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The Electronic Intifada team is comprised of the four co-founders of the project and other members whose specialist skills enhance different areas of our work. EI Team
ALI ABUNIMAH, EI FOUNDER, JOURNALIST Ali Abunimah, a writer and commentator on Middle East and Arab-American affairs, lives in Chicago. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Financial Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Jordan Times, Lebanon's Daily Star and Ha'aretz, among others. He is frequent guest on local, national and international radio and television, including public radio and television, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, the BBC and many others. Abunimah lectures frequently at colleges in the United States. He was born in the United States and grew up in Europe. Both of his parents are originally from Palestine. He received his BA from Princeton University and MA from the University of Chicago. Abunimah travels often to the Middle East and is a full-time researcher in social policy at the University of Chicago. Recent book contributions include "No Justice, No Peace," in "The Anti-Capitalism Reader," edited by Joel Schalit. New York: Akashic Books, 2002; "The US Media and the New Intifada" (with Hussein Ibish) in "The New Intifada," edited by Roane Carey. New York: Verso Books, 2001; "The Palestinian Right of Return" (with Hussein Ibish), Washington, DC: ADC, 2001; "The Media's Deadly Spin on Iraq" (with Rania Masri) in "Iraq Under Siege" edited by Anthony Arnove. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2002 (Updated Edition). E-mail: via EI | Website: abunimah.org ARJAN EL FASSED, EI FOUNDER, JOURNALIST Arjan El Fassed is co-founder of Electronic Intifada and a human rights policy advisor of an international development organisation. The past few years he worked at several human rights organisations in the occupied Palestinian Territories and two development organisations in The Netherlands. Between 1996-1998, he was a researcher at the Nablus-based Center for Palestine Research & Studies (CPRS) and contributed research to the Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens' Rights in Ramallah. El Fassed wrote extensively on international law and human rights, Palestinian politics, and the role of the European Union. El Fassed has written in the Washington Post, Jerusalem Post, Ha'aretz, Newsday, Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Globe, The Independent, European Voice, Toronto Star, Jordan Times, Peace Review, Daily Star and the major Dutch newspapers. He is the author of "Institutional Design and Prospects for Palestinian Democratic Transition" (CPRS, 1999). El Fassed is based in the Netherlands. E-mail: via EI | Website: arjanelfassed.mediamonitors.org LAURIE KING, EI FOUNDER, JOURNALIST Dr. Laurie King is an editor, anthropologist, and freelance writer, and coordinated the International Campaign for Justice for the Victims of Sabra and Shatila, whose legal team lodged the historic case in Belgium against Ariel Sharon and other Israelis and Lebanese responsible for the 1982 massacres. King edited Middle East Report Magazine published by Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) from 1998-2000. In that capacity, she was a frequent commentator on national and international news programs, including MSNBC and CNN, on political, cultural, and military developments in the Middle East and US foreign policies in the region. King initiated MERIP's media e-mail outreach service and has written articles about International Humanitarian Law and post-war reconstruction and reconciliation that have been published in national magazines and academic journals in the US and Lebanon. King-Irani has a Ph.D in Sociocultural Anthropology, specializing in the political identity and participation of Palestinian citizens of Israel, based on her field research as a Fulbright scholar in 1992-93 in Nazareth, Israel. She lived and worked in Beirut from 1993-1998. She is the managing editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies in Washington, DC and a lecturer in anthropology at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. E-mail: via EI | Website: Zinjabeelah MAUREEN CLARE MURPHY, MANAGING EDITOR A native of Chicago, Maureen Clare Murphy worked with the Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq in Ramallah until she was unceremoniously deported by Israel in late May 2006. While in the occupied West Bank, Murphy investigated issues relevant to Palestinian culture, and in addition to the Electronic Intifada, her writing has been published by the Daily Star, Palestine Report, and her former stomping ground of F News magazine. She has also spent time living in Lebanon. Murphy graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a BA in Visual and Critical Studies in 2004. E-mail: via EI MATTHEW CASSEL, ASSISTANT EDITOR Matthew Cassel is a photographer and journalist from Chicago. Over the past few years he has spent his time divided between Chicago, Palestine and Lebanon. In Chicago he works closely with Chicago's Arab-American community organizing around issues like war and racism. In Palestine Cassel has worked for a number of human rights organizations like Addameer: Prisoners' Rights and Support Group based in Ramallah. In 2006 Cassel co-founded the Picture Balata project in Balata refugee camp that aims to give young Palestinians the skills necessary to photograph and write about their lives growing up in a West Bank refugee camp. Cassel's photographs and writing have appeared in a variety of print and online media, he is currently based in Beirut, Lebanon. BENJAMIN DOHERTY, EI TECHNICAL CONSULTANT & PURCHASER Benjamin Doherty is a full-time assistant librarian, freelance graphic designer, and database programmer. He could have received an undergraduate humanities degree from the University of Chicago but chose to pursue social justice activism instead. Before beginning to work with the Palestinian solidarity movement in 1999, Doherty was focused on issues of criminal justice, poverty, homelessness, queer politics, and Chicago city politics. He has been designing posters and signs on Apple computers since age 7 and is fanatical about the Macintosh platform used by the EI Team. Doherty has been a member of the Chicago Palestine Film Festival committee since 2001. He also designs databases and other internet applications for non-profit organizations in PHP, Java, and WebObjects 5. E-mail: via EI KEN HARPER, EI DESIGN TEAM Ken Harper is a graduate of Western Kentucky University's Photojournalism program. After several months in Palestine, he returned to the U.S. to become a designer at Sun Publications in Chicago. After several years there, Harper joined the features design staff at the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, where he began his transition to new media design. Harper decided on a digital vagabond lifestyle, traveling around the country by motorcycle, designing on a freelance basis through his own company, ironcladimages.com. He has worked as a multimedia designer and producer for MSNBC.com, New York Life, Bausch & Lomb and various non-profit organizations. Harper is currently pursuing a masters degree in Communication in the Ohio University Visual Communications graduate program. Harper worked both on the EI v2.0 and EI v3.0 redesign projects. E-mail: via EI | Website: ironcladimages.com
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