Muhannad Ayyash

Muhannad Ayyash is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from York University, an M.A. in Sociology from Carleton University, and a B.A. (Honors) in Sociology from Dalhousie University.

His research combines anti-racist, decolonial, and critical hermeneutic approaches to examine:

• Structures of settler colonial sovereignty
• Mechanisms of decolonial resistance
• Violence and power dynamics in Palestine-Israel
• Social movements and their transformative potential
• Colonial racial capitalism in global contexts

Recent publications analyze Israeli settler colonialism (2024), BDS movement (2025), and colonial global health disparities (2022). His monograph Lordship and Liberation in Palestine-Israel (2025) reframes sovereignty debates through decolonial lenses.

As a Palestinian scholar originally from Silwan (Jerusalem), he actively engages public discourse through Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, and The Baffler, addressing institutional anti-Palestinian racism in Canadian universities and colonial complicity structures. His 2023 York University lecture on Palestinian decolonial resistance drew controversial police attention, revealing institutional tensions around Palestine solidarity activism.