Dr. Jim Primm teaches courses on the graduate and undergraduate level. His areas of concentration are: international relations, world politics, comparative politics, politics of terrorism, public policy, and international institutions. He is currently conducting research concerning the politics of gender and employment in selected Asian countries. He teaches a course entitled “The Arab-Israeli Struggle.” He has presented his research at a variety of forums including as a guest lecturer at the University of Essex, England.
Dr. Zahi Damuni is a founder of Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition. He currently serves on Al-Awda's coordinating committee as an elected representative of the organization's chapter in San Diego. He also serves on Al-Awda's executive committee as the organization's national treasurer. He is currently heavily involved with developing Al-Awda's Palestine Library and Media Center Projects. Prior to relocating to San Diego in 2002, Dr. Damuni was a tenured professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Penn State College of Medicine. He currently manages a biotech research company which he established in San Diego.
Haunani Kay Trask is an indigenous leader in the Native Hawaiian sovereignty movement. She has represented her nation at the United Nations in Geneva, at the World Conference Afainst Racism in Durban, South Africa, and at various gatherings throughout the Pacific, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. She has authored four books, including From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai‘i, widely considered a masterpiece of contemporary resistance writing. Trask was co-producer and scriptwriter of the award-winning documentary, Act of War: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation (1993). In 1998-99, she was a Fellow with the Pacific-Basin Research Center affiliated with the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Her work as a Native leader and scholar is featured in the CD, We Are Not Happy Natives (2002). Currently, Trask is Professor of Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.
Dr. Ibrahim G. Aoudé is Professor and Chair of Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawai’i—Manoa. He is the Editor of Arab Studies Quarterly and has published on Middle East politics, Arab diasporic identities, and Hawaiian political economy and social movements. Professor Aoudé teaches courses on the Middle East, the Pacific, and Hawai’i.
Dr. Farideh Farhi is an independent researcher and Affiliate Graduate Faculty of political science at the University of Hawai'i in Manoa where she currently teaches a course on American foreign policy in the Middle East. She has taught comparative politics at the Unviersity of Colorado, University of Hawai'i, University of Tehran, and Shaheed Beheshti University in Tehran. Her publications include States and Urban-Based Revolutions in Iran and Nicaragua and numerous articles and book chapters on comparative analyses of revolutions, Iranian politics and foreign policy, and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
Dr. Jess Ghannam is Chief of Medical Psychology, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and faculty in the Global Health Sciences Program at the University of California, San Francisco. He has been working in Palestine for over 15 years teaching, conducting research on post-traumatic stress disorder, developing community health centers and micro-clinics throughout Gaza and the West Bank. Dr. Ghannam writes and presents frequently on the Middle East.
Dr. Zahi Damuni is a founder of Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition. He currently serves on Al-Awda's coordinating committee as an elected representative of the organization's chapter in San Diego. He also serves on Al-Awda's executive committee as the organization's national treasurer. He is currently heavily involved with developing Al-Awda's Palestine Library and Media Center Projects. Prior to relocating to San Diego in 2002, Dr. Damuni was a tenured professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Penn State College of Medicine. He currently manages a biotech research company which he established in San Diego.
Haunani Kay Trask is an indigenous leader in the Native Hawaiian sovereignty movement. She has represented her nation at the United Nations in Geneva, at the World Conference Afainst Racism in Durban, South Africa, and at various gatherings throughout the Pacific, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. She has authored four books, including From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai‘i, widely considered a masterpiece of contemporary resistance writing. Trask was co-producer and scriptwriter of the award-winning documentary, Act of War: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation (1993). In 1998-99, she was a Fellow with the Pacific-Basin Research Center affiliated with the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Her work as a Native leader and scholar is featured in the CD, We Are Not Happy Natives (2002). Currently, Trask is Professor of Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.
Dr. Ibrahim G. Aoudé is Professor and Chair of Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawai’i—Manoa. He is the Editor of Arab Studies Quarterly and has published on Middle East politics, Arab diasporic identities, and Hawaiian political economy and social movements. Professor Aoudé teaches courses on the Middle East, the Pacific, and Hawai’i.
Dr. Farideh Farhi is an independent researcher and Affiliate Graduate Faculty of political science at the University of Hawai'i in Manoa where she currently teaches a course on American foreign policy in the Middle East. She has taught comparative politics at the Unviersity of Colorado, University of Hawai'i, University of Tehran, and Shaheed Beheshti University in Tehran. Her publications include States and Urban-Based Revolutions in Iran and Nicaragua and numerous articles and book chapters on comparative analyses of revolutions, Iranian politics and foreign policy, and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
Dr. Jess Ghannam is Chief of Medical Psychology, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and faculty in the Global Health Sciences Program at the University of California, San Francisco. He has been working in Palestine for over 15 years teaching, conducting research on post-traumatic stress disorder, developing community health centers and micro-clinics throughout Gaza and the West Bank. Dr. Ghannam writes and presents frequently on the Middle East.