Bashir Abu-Manneh

Who is Bashir Abu-Manneh?

Bashir Abu-Manneh is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at Brown University, and formerly Assistant Professor of literature at Barnard College. He describes himself as "a Palestinian from Israel." He holds a B.A., University of Haifa, Israel; M.A., University of Warwick, U.K.; D.Phil., University of Oxford, U.K.

He is a cited expert on literature. Columbia's student magazine the Blue and White described him as a "campus favorite" whose "openness and dynamism attracted students of disparate viewpoints".

He is a contributor to Z Communications, The Nation and the Monthly Review. Abu Manneh regards Israel as a "colonial enterprise" with "lebensraum anxieties" that drive it to "bombing and destroying."