Wheels of Justice

Marcy Newman is a scholar, teacher, and activist invested in human rights. Over the years, Dr. Newman has broadened her students, readers, and audiences awareness on a range of issues from Harlem Renaissance artists to breast cancer victims and survivors, and more recently, on the Middle East and its humanitarian crises. She has taught courses in literature, as well as in American and Middle East Studies, not just at Boise State University, but at Universities in Ghana, Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine. Having lived amidst the devastating violence in Lebanon, and Palestine, she works tirelessly for the Right of Return for Palestinian refugees under UN Resolution 194. She currently serves as the legislative coordinator, District 2, for the US Campaign to End the Occupation and is a Fellow at the Initiative for Middle East Policy Dialogue. Dr. Newman is a co-founder of the Nahr El Bared Relief Campaign to assist Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. She has spoken at venues worldwide on the human tragedy of war and occupation in Palestine and Lebanon.