A Conversation with Bassem Eid: Palestinian Human Rights Advocate and Political Commentator

Bassem Eid is an activist and political analyst born in the Jordanian-occupied Old City in East Jerusalem, whose place of residence became part of the United Nations Refugee Works Agency (UNRWA) refugee camp of Shuafat. Bassem Eid spent the first 33 years of his life in Shuafat. He rose to prominence during the first Intifada, the Palestinian uprising of 1987-93, and was a senior field researcher for B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. In 1996, he founded the Jerusalem-based Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group. In 2016, Bassem assumed the role of chairman of the Center for Near East Policy Research.

Bassem Eid is touring North American campuses and will be discussing his take on the Israel-Palestine conflict and peace process, the two-state solution, and the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) movement against Israel. For a full biography please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassem_Eid.