This Week in Palestine, August, 2008, no. 124, pp. 8-12

Available for free athttp://www.thisweekinpalestine.com/details.php?id=2537&ed=156&edid=156or in Arabic at http://www.dalia.ps/ar/node/122

This ground-breaking paper draws on international law, conventions, treaties and declarations to argue that current international aid procedures violate Palestinian rights. I argue that Palestinians should claim their rights from donors and international development actors and take initiative to reform the aid system, which in some ways denies self-determination in ways similar to the Israeli occupation.

International Journal of Behavioral Development, July, 2008, 32(4) by Hani Murad and Nora Lester Murad

Available for purchase ($25 USD) at http://jbd.sagepub.com/content/32/4.toc

This scholarly research article explores the psychological experiences of Palestinian children who work at intersections and in other informal parts of the Israeli economy.

Forced Migration Review, 2006, 26, pp. 47-48 by Juliette Abu-Iyun and Nora Lester Murad

Available for free at http://www.fmreview.org/palestine.htm

Palestinian refugees should be allowed to choose and decide, based on informed opinions, whether or not they wish to return to their homes. This is their legal and moral right. Is it also their right to participate in discussions about their future? If so, how should they participate?

Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, December 2005, 12(4), pp. 479-503

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Interweaving excerpts from my personal journal with research and literature about mixed race, interfaith, and bicultural experience, I use autoethnograhic methods to explore the experience of mothering in an American-Jewish and Palestinian-Muslim family. I push the theoretical discussion beyond the experiences of “mixed” people to consider how the identity of otherwise monoracial/monocultural parents may be transformed through the experience of parenting across socially/politically significant differences, particularly national origin, culture and faith. I also extend theoretical discussion beyond the confines of identity to consider parenting a s a political process with an impact within and beyond families.

American Journal of Nursing, cover story in August 1998(8), with part II in September 1998

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Two-part article based on a roundtable discussion exploring the complex issues of caring for a multicultural patient base.

Journal of Community Advocacy and Activism, 1997, 2(1), pp. 83-93 by Nora Lester, Melissa Lamson and Neil Wollman

Activists put their hearts and souls into the work but often feel ineffective, undervalued, emotionally spent, and financially or professionally insecure. Some activists, “wounded” by the internal politics of social change organizations, have left social change work altogether. This seems deleterious not only to individuals and organizations, but to the cause of social change. Why are so many professional activists “burned” both by the inherent demands of social change work and by the organizations they work for?