Dr Julie Norman

Dr Julie M. Norman is an associate fellow with the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House, a professor (teaching) in politics and international relations at University College London (UCL), and the director of UCL’s Israel–Palestine Initiative. 

Julie is the author of Gaza: The Dream and the Nightmare (Polity, 2025, with Maia Carter Hallward), and many other books and articles on political resistance in the Middle East, including The Palestinian Prisoners Movement (Routledge, 2021) and The Second Palestinian Intifada (Routledge, 2010). She has also published widely on non-violence, peacebuilding, extremism and protracted conflicts.

She has worked with NGOs in Israel–Palestine, Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq, and she has provided expert insights to the UK Parliament, Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office and Ministry of Defence, and to the US Department of State. She is a frequent commentator on Middle East politics and international conflict for the BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera and other media outlets.