Mezna Qato
Mezna Qato is Margaret Anstee Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Newnham College, University of Cambridge. She is completing a book on the history of education for Palestinians. Her work revolves around three themes: social histories of Palestinians, the politics and practice of archives, and comparative settler colonialism. She co-convenes the Archives of the Disappeared Research Network. She is a founding committee member of Librarians and Archivists with Palestine, a member of the board of the AM Qattan Foundation, Friends of Birzeit University, and MAKAN, a Radical History Review editorial committee member, and contributing editor of the Jerusalem Quarterly. Her most recent artwork, a scorebook on life in exile, was recently in exhibition at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale.