Hadeel Assali

Dr. Hadeel Assali is Postdoctoral Research Scholar and Lecturer in Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. She holds a PhD from Columbia University and was an ACLS Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. She is an anthropologist and former engineer whose work looks at the ongoing colonial legacies of the discipline of geology as well as anti-colonial ways of knowing and relating to the earth in Gaza and other parts of southern Palestine.