Naseer Aruri

📅 آخر تحديث: ٤ أغسطس ٢٠٢٦
✍️ نُشر في: ٤ أغسطس ٢٠٢٦
الموسوعة الحرة

Naseer H. Aruri (Arabic: نصير عاروري, 7 January 1934 – 10 February 2015) was a Palestinian scholar-activist and expert on Middle East politics, U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and human rights. Aruri was Chancellor Professor (Emeritus) of Political Science, having served on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth from 1965-1998. In 1993, he was the recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences “Distinguished Research Award”. Aruri’s papers have been preserved and are on display at the Claire T. Carney Library Archives and Special Collections at UMASS-Dartmouth.

Early life

He was born in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine in 1934. His father was a high school principal in Jerusalem and he and his family split their time between Jerusalem and the West Bank village of Burham, where the family home still stands. Aruri emigrated to the United States in 1954 in order to pursue a college education. He arrived in Springfield, Massachusetts, where his brother, Said, was already a student at the American International College (AIC). He received his B.A. in History from AIC and his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. While a student at AIC, he was "adopted" by the sizeable Lebanese community of Springfield and later married Joyce Thomas, the daughter of a Lebanese immigrant. The couple eventually settled in the Town of Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

Career

انتُخب عروري لثلاث دورات متتالية كعضو في مجلس إدارة منظمة العفو الدولية في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية (1984-1990). كما كان عضوًا في مجلس إدارة منظمة هيومن رايتس ووتش /الشرق الأوسط، ومقرها نيويورك ، (1990-1992). وكان عروري عضوًا مؤسسًا للمنظمة العربية لحقوق الإنسان ، فرعي القاهرة وجنيف ، عام 1982، وعضوًا في هيئة تحرير مجلة " ثيرد وورلد كوارترلي " (لندن). وشارك في صياغة العهد العربي لحقوق الإنسان برعاية المعهد الدولي للدراسات العليا في العدالة الجنائية، في سيراكوزا، إيطاليا، في ديسمبر/كانون الأول 1986. وكان عضوًا في الهيئة الفلسطينية المستقلة لحماية حقوق المواطنين (رام الله) منذ تأسيسها في يناير/كانون الثاني 1994، وعضوًا في المجلس الاستشاري لإدارة المعهد الدولي للتحقيقات الجنائية في لاهاي . ألقى أروري كلمة في الأمم المتحدة وألقى الخطاب الرئيسي بمناسبة الذكرى الأربعين للإعلان العالمي لحقوق الإنسان بدعوة من اتحاد موظفي الأمم المتحدة - مقر الأمم المتحدة، نيويورك، في 9 ديسمبر 1988.

كان عروري عضواً سابقاً في المجلس الوطني الفلسطيني ، وهو برلمان الشعب الفلسطيني في المنفى ، وشغل عضوية المجلس المركزي لمنظمة التحرير الفلسطينية . وكان عضواً مؤسساً ورئيساً لرابطة خريجي الجامعات العربية الأمريكية (AAUG) مرتين. كما كان عضواً مؤسساً ورئيساً سابقاً لمجلس إدارة معهد البحوث عبر العربية، وعضواً في مجلس إدارة صندوق القدس ولجنة مركز فلسطين التابعة له .

تحدث أروري في الجامعات والمؤتمرات الأكاديمية وظهر كضيف في وسائل الإعلام، بما في ذلك PBS NewsHour و CNN Crossfire و CNN Lou Dobbs Tonight (Moneyline) و ABC News و C-SPAN والجزيرة ، وكان معلقًا في NPR و Pacifica Radio و BBC و Radio Monte Carlo وصوت أمريكا و Alternative Radio .

Aruri has published widely in newspapers, magazines and scholarly journals throughout the Globe. He was the author/editor of books, chiefly on the subject of American foreign policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Aruri’s publications include The Palestinian Resistance to Israeli Occupation (AAUG Press 1970), Enemy of the Sun: Poems of Palestinian Resistance, with Edmund Ghareeb (Drum and Spear Press 1970); Occupation: Israel Over Palestine (AAUG Press, 1983/ZED Press 1985; 2nd Edition, 1989) (chosen by the American Library Association’s Choice Magazine as an “Outstanding Academic Book for 1984/1985”); The Obstruction of Peace: The U.S., Israel and the Palestinians (Common Courage Press, 1995), Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return (Pluto, 2001). "Revising Culture, Reinventing Peace: The Influence of Edward W. Said" with Muhammad Shuraydi (Interlink, 2001). His book Dishonest Broker: the U.S. Role in Israel and Palestine, (South End Press 2003) has also been translated into Arabic, Spanish and Italian. He was the co-author (with Samih Farsoun) of Palestine and the Palestinians: A Social and Political History. Second Edition, Westview Press (2006).

He was a harsh critic of the Oslo Peace Accords in what he suggested, at the time, amounted to a surrendering of the internationally recognized rights of the Palestinian people. He has been especially vocal in his criticism of the PLO, and later the Palestine Authority (PA), for its complicity in a process that he has described as providing the framework and cover for further Israeli colonization of Palestinian land.

Personal life

Aruri and his wife Joyce (Thomas) married in 1961. They have four children and thirteen grandchildren. Aruri died of complications from Parkinson's disease on 10 February 2015, aged 81.[1]

Publications

  • The Palestinian Resistance to Israeli Occupation (1970)
  • Enemy of the Sun: Poems of Palestinian Resistance, with Edmund Ghareeb (1970)
  • Jordan: A Study in Political Development 1923–1965. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. 1972. ISBN 978-90-247-1217-5.
  • Occupation: Israel Over Palestine (Editor) (1983)
  • The Obstruction of Peace: The U.S., Israel, and the Palestinians (1995)
  • Revising Culture, Reinventing Peace: The Influence of Edward W. Said (Co-editor) (Interlink, 2001)
  • Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return (Editor) (Pluto Press, 2001)
  • Dishonest Broker: America's Role in Israel and Palestine (South End Press, 2003)
  • Palestine and the Palestinians: A Social and Political History, (2nd Edition) (with Samih Farsoun) (Westview Press, 2006)
  • Bitter Legacy: The United States in the Middle East. (Haymarket Books May 2014)
  • Israel's sacred terrorism by Livia Rokach(Preface: Naseer H. Aruri) (AAUG Press c1980, 1982, 1986)

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