Anne Irfan is a multiple award-winning historian lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcolonial Studies at University College London, where her work focuses on Israel-Palestine. She is a leading expert on Palestinian refugee rights and in 2023 published the academic book Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System. She was previously lecturer at the University of Oxford's Refugee Studies Centre and has also taught at the London School of Economics. A Short History of the Gaza Strip is her first book for the trade.