Dr. Amer Dahamshe received his PhD from the Department of Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He currently teaches in the Hebrew department at the Arab Academic College of Education in Israel–Haifa and is a research fellow in the Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of Haifa. His first book, A Local Habitation and a Name: A New Literary and Cultural Reading of the Arabic Geographical Names of the Land, was published in Hebrew 2017, and he co-edited (with Yossef Schwartz) Place-names and spatial identity in Israel-Palestine Majority-Minority Relation, Oblivion and Memory.