Dr Muhannad Ayyash: Lordship and Liberation in Palestine-Israel: The Promise of Decolonial Sovereignties (Columbia University Press, 2025). Read more about the book talks series.

In the final part of the series, Muhannad Ayyash provides timely fresh perspective on Palestine-Israel by rethinking the nature of settler-colonial sovereignty and the relationship between land and people. Muhannad Ayyash argues that this relationship comes in two distinct forms: a settler-colonial type, practiced by the Israeli state, that consists of “lordship” over land and people, and a decolonial type, seen in Palestinian popular organizing, that he calls “land as life,” a reciprocal bond.

Order & read more about the book here. Dr Muhannad Ayyash is a Professor of Sociology at Mount Royal University.