Oren Yiftachel seminar

IILAH would like to thank Professor Oren Yiftachel for so generously giving his time to present his work and share his insights with the IILAH community.

About the presenter

Professor Oren Yiftachel is a political and legal geographer who holds the Hurst Family Chair of Urban studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba. Yiftachel has published widely, using critical perspectives to explore the interface of power, space and identities. His recent book (with Kedar and Amara) "Emptied Lands: the Legal Geography of Bedouins Rights" (Stanford  2018).  Yiftachel combines academia and activism, being a founder and leading member of leading civil society and human rights organizations, including Adva, B'tselem (chair 2011-2014) 'the council for unrecognized Bedouin localities', and most recently the Israeli-Palestinian peace movement "A Land for All".