Introduction: Locating Palestine in the Arab Americas – Part I

Author Biographies

• Ricardo Marzuca Butto, University of Chile

  Ricardo Marzuca Butto's work has focused, from a transnational perspective, on the contemporary history of the Arab world and Arab and Palestinian migration to Latin America. Through comparative history, his research has focused on the ideological and political positions and debates of Arab communities in Latin America in the face of the problems and crises in the Arab world, with a particular interest in Palestine. A historian with a Master's degree in Education and a PhD in Latin American Studies from the University of Chile, he is Associate Professor at the Eugenio Chahuán Center for Arab Studies in the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Chile.

• Jacob Norris, University of Sussex

  Jacob Norris is Associate Professor in Middle Eastern History at the University of Sussex and co-directs the Middle East and North Africa Centre at Sussex (MENACS). His work is focused on Palestine and its  connections to wider histories of colonialism, resistance, and migration, especially in Latin America. He is interested in the intersections between history and storytelling, as explored in his recent book, The Lives and Deaths of Jubrail Dabdoub (or How the Bethlehemites discovered Amerka) (Stanford University Press, 2023), and the Planet Bethlehem archive project (https://planetbethlehem.org).