Shourideh C. Molavi is Senior Lecturer in the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University in New York City, and the dedicated Palestine researcher for Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths University of London, UK. She has extensive academic and fieldwork experience in the Middle East, specifically in Palestine/Israel, on the topics of human and minority rights, with an emphasis on the relationship between the law, violence and power. She is also author of Stateless Citizenship: The Palestinian-Arab Citizens of Israel (2013) and Environmental Warfare in Gaza: Colonial Violence and New Landscapes of Resistance (2024).