Haidar Eid
Haidar Eid is a literary scholar and Associate Professor at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza, currently based in Johannesburg as a research associate at the Centre for Asian Studies in Africa at the University of Pretoria. He holds a PhD from Rand Afrikaans University and has published widely in postcolonial literature and cultural studies. His most recent book, Decolonizing the Palestinian Mind (2023), draws on Edward Said, Frantz Fanon, and Ghassan Kanafani to examine liberation and Palestinian cultural identity. He is also the author of Worlding Postmodernism and Countering the Palestinian Nakba: One State for All.
[Eid will address the conference via zoom.]
