Jacob Norris is Associate Professor of Middle East History at the University of Sussex. His research focuses on Palestine and its connections to wider histories of colonialism, resistance, and migration, with particular attention to Latin America. He is the author of The Lives and Deaths of Jubrail Dabdoub (or How the Bethlehemites Discovered America) and Land of Progress, a study of the British Mandate in Palestine. He is co-editor of We Are Still Here, an anthology of poetry from Gaza, and the co-director of the Planet Bethlehem digital archive.