Sari Bashi is a human rights lawyer, writer, analyst, and senior leader. She is the co-founder and former executive director of Gisha-Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, the Israeli human rights organization promoting freedom of movement for Palestinians in Gaza.
She previously served as program director for Human Rights Watch, leading the organization's global research and research staff of 270 people and as research director at Democracy for the Arab World Now. She's an expert in international humanitarian law, a subject she has taught at Tel Aviv University and Yale Law School.
She authors the Umm Forat blog on raising her kids in the West Bank and is an ultra-marathon runner. Her essays appear in the New York Times, MSNBC, Foreign Policy, the New York Review of Books and other publications.
The English translation of her award-winning Hebrew-language memoir, Upside-Down Love, will be published in 2026 (Blackstone).
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