Interview with Mazin Qumsiyeh, Director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History/Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability

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"Mazin Qumsiyeh is a Palestinian scientist, author, and organizer who followed a career in college teaching and research in the United States-- at Yale and Duke Universities-- with a return to his homeland in 2008 where he teaches at Bethlehem University. In 2014, he and his wife founded an institute which promotes sustainability in human and natural communities in the West Bank. The author of more than 150 scientific papers, he is best known for his books on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict: Sharing the Land of Canaan and Popular Resistance in Palestine. Topics to be covered in the interview include Palestinian life under the Occupation today; the work of the institute; Palestine in US foreign policy; and the future of Palestine."

Interviewer-- Laurie Gagne, Retired Director, Edmundite Center for Peace and Justice, St. Michael's College and Professor of Peace and Justice

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