Adila Laidi-Hanieh edited in 2008 the book Palestine: We Lack for Nothing Here (Palestine: Rien ne nous Manque ici, Cercle d’Art, Paris), a cultural review of contemporary Palestine, which commissioned texts and art work from confirmed and emerging artists, critics, novelists, poets, and visual artists from Palestine and elsewhere. From 1996 to 2005, she ran the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center in Ramallah where she curated the 2001 memorial exhibition 100 Shaheed-100 Lives. She taught Palestinian contemporary art and modern Arab intellectual history at Birzeit University, and is currently a cultural studies PhD candidate at George Mason University.

March 2009