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Sociology and Film and Media Studies

https://www.soc.ucsb.edu/people/lisa-hajjar

About

Doctor Hajjar's scholarship focuses on international law, war and conflict, human rights, torture, and targeted killing. She is the author of Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza (University of California Press, 2005), Torture: A Sociology of Violence and Human Rights (Routledge, 2013), and The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture (University of California Press, 2022). She is a co-editor of Jadaliyya, and co-chair of the editorial committees of Middle East Report. She is working on a new book: TGenealogies of Human Rights in the Arab World which is co-authored by Omar Dewachi.