Muhannad Ayyash: Palestine, Canada, Violence and Settler colonialism

Muhannad Ayyash was born and raised in Silwan, Al-Quds, before immigrating to Canada where he is a Professor of Sociology at Mount Royal University. He is also a policy analyst at Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network. He is the author of Lordship and Liberation in Palestine-Israel (Columbia University Press, 2025) and A Hermeneutics of Violence (University of Toronto Press, 2019). He has published several academic articles on topics such as political violence, Zionism and colonial modernity, settler colonial sovereignty, anti-Palestinian racism, and Palestinian decolonial movements in different journals. He has co-edited two books, the most recent of which, with Jeremy Wildeman, is titled, Canada as a Settler Colony on the Question of Palestine (University of Alberta Press, 2023). He is also the author of multiple book chapters, and has written opinion pieces for Al-Jazeera, The Baffler, Middle East Eye, and Mondoweiss, among others.