Tahrir Hamdi is a professor of anti-colonial and resistance literature and President of Arab Open University in Jordan. Hamdi recently won the Palestine Book Award 2023 in the “Counter Current” category for her book "Imagining Palestine". In 2020, Hamdi won the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation’s Arab Researchers’ Award in the Humanities. Hamdi is an assistant editor with the journal Arab Studies Quarterly. She is also an associate editor in the journal Janus Unbound and a member of the editorial board of Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies. Hamdi has co-edited a new book titled "Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Works".