CMES Research Associate Dr. Sara Roy and her book Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (Pluto Press, 2007) were recently added to the NYTimes.com in-depth section on Gaza at http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/gaza_strip/index.html Dr. Roy’s work concerns the Israel-Palestine conflict and she is widely regarded as the leading world expert on the political economy of the Gaza Strip. In her earlier work, The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-Development (Institute for Palestine Studies, 1995), she coined the term de-development to describe a deliberate policy of scaling back economic growth in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli military occupation. For a full biography of Dr. Roy go to http://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/people/research-associates.
August 9, 2010