Omar M. Dajani is the Carol Olson Professor of International Law at McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific. The son of a Palestinian refugee from Jaffa, Omar served as a legal adviser to the Palestinian negotiating team in peace talks with Israel from 1999 to 2001, participating in the summits at Camp David and Taba. Subsequently, he was a political officer in the office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO) and consulted on a variety of legal infrastructure development and conflict resolution processes in the Middle East and elsewhere—for institutions including the United States Department of State, the Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Center, the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue, and the European Council on Foreign Relations. Currently, Omar is co-chair of the joint board of A Land for All, a movement advocating a confederal two-state solution for Israel-Palestine. He has published widely regarding law, conflict and peace building in the Middle East in academic journals (including at Yale and the University of California) and in media outlets (including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs). His recent book, Federalism and Decentralization in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa(co-edited with Aslı Bâli) (Cambridge University Press, 2023) explores institutional design solutions for addressing identity conflict and governance challenges in the MENA region. He received his B.A. from Northwestern University and his J.D. from Yale Law School.

Mira Sucharov is Professor of Political Science at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She is the author or editor of five books, including Borders and Belonging: A Memoir (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021); and Social Justice and Israel/Palestine: Foundational & Contemporary Debates (University of Toronto Press, 2019, co-edited with Aaron J. Hahn Tapper), and she has published over thirty-five scholarly articles and book chapters. Her latest journal article is “Dear Omar, Dear Mira: Exploring Zionism Across the Ethnic Divide,” SHOFAR: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies (with Omar M. Dajani, 2023). She is a nine-time teaching award winner, including having received the top university teaching award in Ontario. Her many op-eds and articles have appeared in The Globe and Mail, Haaretz, The Forward, The Daily Beast, the Toronto Star, The Jerusalem Post, JTA and Jewish Currents. She is currently working with Omar Dajani on a podcast about Palestinian and Jewish life in Jaffa called “The Vacant Lot,” and, also with Omar Dajani, a book about equality and attachment in Israel-Palestine. She serves on the Advisory Council of New Israel Fund-Canada, on the North American Steering Committee of A Land for All: Two States, One Homeland, and she is co-founder of Drachim: A New Path Forward for Israel/Palestine.

Eyal Rozmarin, Ph.D is a psychoanalyst and writer. He was born in Israel-Palestine and now lives in New York. He writes at the intersection of the psychological and the social-political, about subjects, collectives, and the forces that drive them, and pull them together and apart. He is Co-Editor of the book series Relational Perspectives in Psychoanalysis, and on the editorial boards of Studies in Gender and Sexuality and Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Eyal teaches at the White Institute and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. His upcoming book is titled: Belonging and its Discontents.

Shir Shanun, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist in California, and a candidate at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. She is also a graduate of the EDCAS and EDCAS RECAST programs (eating disorders compulsions and addictions from a relational perspective) at the William Alanson White Institute in New York. Shir is an editorial board member at Psychoanalythic Inquiry and the creator of Connections and Conversation.