Born: 1980 (circa), Australia
Died: NA
Country most active: Australia
Also known as: NA
The following is excerpted from Fire Dragon Feminism: Asian Migrant Women’s Tales of Migration, Coloniality and Racial Capitalism by Quah Ee Ling (2025), republished with permission from the author.
Souheir Edelbi, the second-generation descendant of a Lebanese immigrant family in Australia, grew up listening to family stories of migration and anti-Arab, anti-Palestinian racial violence. Seeds of commitment to Palestinian liberation began to sow in Souheir Edelbi at a young age as she learned about the Nakba and oppression faced by Palestinians from her father. Since visiting Palestine in 2010 and bearing witness to the oppression herself, Souheir Edelbi’s research, teaching and political activism have been focused on race-making, coloniality and international justice, specifically, Palestinian liberation. Trained in international criminal law with extensive legal professional and human rights advocacy experiences, Souheir Edelbi has worked with human rights organizations supporting the rights of Palestinians and minorities in Iraq and Iran and served on the Advisory Committee of the Racial Justice Centre in Australia. At the point of writing this book, Souheir Edelbi is a co-convenor the Palestine Project at the university she works with as an academic. The Palestine Project seeks to bring together ‘academics interested in the connection between pedagogy and current events in Palestine to explore ways in which [they] can support students – and one another – in understanding and responding to current issues of global injustice, in the classroom and beyond’ (The Palestine Project 2023). As the co-project convenor, Souheir Edelbi, together with her colleagues, organized a series of advocacy initiatives including introductory reading list on Palestine, pedagogy workshop on talking about Palestine in the classroom, panel discussion on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and its legal implications and lunchtime talk for student activists to share their Palestine liberation activism on campus experiences.