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Dr Leena Dallasheh is a historian of the Modern Middle East and associate professor at Humboldt State University in California.
Her work has a particular focus on Palestinians who became citizens of Israel in 1948, and how they negotiated their incorporation in the state - affirming their rights as citizens and their identity as Palestinian.
Dr Dallasheh is also a Palestinian citizen of Israel and lived within walking distance of Sheikh Jarrah for seven years.
Palestinians inspect a destroyed house, after it was struck by Israeli strikes, in Gaza City this week. Photo: AFP