Dr. Alaa Tartir

Dr. Alaa Tartir is Senior Researcher and Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Tartir is also a Research Associate and Academic Coordinator at The Geneva Graduate Institute, a Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), a Programme and Policy Advisor to Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network, and a Co-Chair of the Governing Board of The Arab Reform Initiative (ARI). Tartir is co-editor of Resisting Domination in Palestine: Mechanisms and Techniques of Control, Coloniality and Settler Colonialism (2023), Political Economy of Palestine: Critical, Interdisciplinary, and Decolonial Perspectives (2021), and Palestine and Rule of Power: Local Dissent vs. International Governance (2019). In 2025, and in collaboration with Utrecht University, Tartir co-launched a Massive Open Online Course available on Coursera on Contemporary Palestinian History. Tartir publications can be accessed at www.alaatartir.com.