Suhad Bishara
Columbia University Palestine Law Fellow
Fall 2014, Spring 2015
Suhad Bishara is a senior attorney and the Head of the Land and Planning Unit of Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel. She has litigated numerous constitutional rights cases before the Israeli Supreme Court concerning the land rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel and Palestinians living in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). She is an Editor of Makan – Adalah’s Journal of Land, Planning and Justice, and she co-authored a report entitled “Nomads Against Their Will”, in 2011 about the State of Israel’s attempt to expel Arab Bedouin citizens of the state from their village in the Naqab (Negev) desert.
