Dr Toufic Haddad
IASH-SSPS Research Fellow, September - December 2025
Home institution: University of Exeter
Toufic Haddad (PhD) is a Palestinian American academic and author. He holds a PhD in Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and is the author of “Palestine Ltd: Neoliberalism and Nationalism in the Occupied Territory” (I.B. Tauris, 2016). He has worked in various capacities across the Occupied Palestinian Territories as a journalist, researcher, consultant, editor, and publisher. He recently Directed the Council for British Research in the Levant's Jerusalem Branch - the Kenyon Institute (2020-24) and was most recently an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter.
Project title: The Gaza Genocide in Global Context
This research explores global dimensions of the Gaza genocide, particularly in light of the extensive role of international peacebuilding, statebuilding and development practitioners in the Israeli-Palestinian theatre from 1993 to 2023, and the challenges global legal institutions and the rules-based order encounter in a world characterised by the rise of multipolarity and post-neoliberal states and economies. By removing the Gaza genocide case study from an exclusive Israel-Palestinian conflict framing, it aims to reposition the genocide within broader historical, theoretical, legal, racial, political and economic dynamics and debates, while shedding light on international contributions to drivers and dynamics shaping its genesis, character and perpetuation.