Samera Esmeir

Bio: 

Samera Esmeir, an editor of Middle East Report, is a former lawyer who now teaches in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California-Berkeley.


Articles by this Author
Forty Years of Occupation

An outpouring of retrospectives—good, bad and indifferent—has marked the fortieth anniversary of the June 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Predictably, and perhaps appropriately, most looks backward have also attempted to peer forward, and...

The Horrors of Israel's Peace

Three weeks after the war on Gaza, Israel declared a unilateral ceasefire but refused to terminate its so-called defensive operations. In response, Hamas declared a ceasefire for one week, until the withdrawal of Israeli troops has been completed...