Draft:Jamal Nusseibeh

Dr. Jamal Sari Nusseibeh is a Palestinian-American-British thought leader best known for his political scholarship and commentary regarding a solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict and the future of Palestinian leadership. Formerly Vice President of Al-Quds University, he has published in This Week in Palestine, al-Quds, Time Magazine, the Atlantic Council, and other venues, and is a Senior Visiting Scholar at the Washington, D.C.-based Middle East Policy Council.

Professional Life & Ideas
Nusseibeh has been quoted and interviewed frequently, especially in Arabic press, and also in political bodies such as the British House of Lords. He has presented on Palestinian issues at the United Nations and the U.S. Congress, and is considered by some to be a source of innovative ideas on Palestinian governance.

Among other positions and proposals with which he is credited, he declared the Oslo Accords dead, killed by Israel's 2023-2024 offensive against Gaza and actions in the occupied West Bank. He also proposed and advocated for a U.S.-led, international, time-limited peacekeeping force to be deployed in all Palestinian territories to force a ceasefire in the 2023-2024 Israeli war on Gaza, to address humanitarian imperatives, to protect Palestinians from Israel and Israelis from Hamas, and to lay the groundwork for elections that will allow for a stable peace.

Dr. Nusseibeh is a barrister-at-law in the U.K., and was professor at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem for a number of years. In addition to his political work for Palestinian causes, he is currently CEO of an investment firm.

Family
He is the son of Professor Sari Nusseibeh, often referred to as Palestine's most prominent intellectual and declared the 24th most influential intellectual in the world on the list of Top 100 Public Intellectuals by Prospect Magazine (UK) and Foreign Policy (United States). His mother, Lucy Nusseibeh, is the founder and chairperson of the Middle East Nonviolence and Democracy (MEND) organization in East Jerusalem. Nusseibeh is a member of the historically important Nuseibeh (also spelled Nusaybeh) family, the oldest Muslim dynasty in Jerusalem.

Education
Nusseibeh has an undergraduate degree in international relations and law in from Sciences Po in Paris, a law degree from City University in London, and a LL.M. and PhD (JSD) from Columbia University in New York.