Bashir Abu-Manneh is an Assistant Professor of literature at Barnard College

Barnard College

Barnard College is a private women's liberal arts college and a member of the Seven Sisters. Founded in 1889, Barnard has been affiliated with Columbia University since 1900. The campus stretches along Broadway between 116th and 120th Streets in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough...

. He describes himself as "a Palestinian

Palestinian people

The Palestinian people, also referred to as Palestinians or Palestinian Arabs , are an Arabic-speaking people with origins in Palestine. Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one third of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the area encompassing the West Bank, the Gaza...

 from Israel

Israel

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."
He holds a B.A., University of Haifa

University of Haifa

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, Israel; M.A., University of Warwick

University of Warwick

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, U.K.; D.Phil., University of Oxford

University of Oxford

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, U.K.

He is a widely cited expert on literature.

He is a contributor to Z Communications

Z Communications

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, The Nation

The Nation

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and the Monthly Review

Monthly Review

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. Abu Manneh regards Israel as a "colonial enterprise" with "lebensraum anxieties" that drive it to "bombing and destroying."

External links

• VIDEO: Bashir Abu-Manneh - Chomsky on the Palestine-Israel conflict, interview, April 1, 2007.