Draft:Jamal Sari Nuseibeh

Dr. Jamal Sari Nuseibeh is a Palestinian-American-British scholar and businessman best known for his political commentary regarding a solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict, and the future of a Palestinian state and its leadership. Formerly Vice President of Al-Quds University, he previously worked at the Palestinian Legislative Council and participated in second-track Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. He is a Senior Scholar and Board Member at the Middle East Policy Council and a former Columbia University Palestine Law Fellow.

Scholarship and Ideas
Nuseibeh has published in the Wilson Center, This Week in Palestine, al-Quds, Time Magazine, the Atlantic Council, and other venues. He 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, the U.K. House of Lords, the European Council on Foreign Relations, 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. He has also analyzed how U.S. policy on Israel and Palestine, and about the Israeli war on Gaza in particular, is undermining long-term U.S. interests in the region.

Nuseibeh is a barrister-at-law in the U.K., and was professor at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem for a number of years.[12][13] In addition to his political work for Palestinian causes, he is currently CEO of an investment firm.[14]

Family
Nuseibeh is a member of the historically important Nuseibeh (also spelled Nusseibeh or Nusaybeh) family, the oldest Muslim dynasty in Jerusalem. 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, and the daughter of prominent British philosopher J. L. Austin.

Early Life and Education
Nuseibeh grew up in England and Jerusalem. He 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.