Sumaya Awad

Sumaya Awad is a Palestinian American writer and activist based in New York City. She directs strategy and communications for the Adalah Justice Project, and co-edited the book Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, published in 2020.

Career Awad is Director of Strategy and Communications for the Adalah Justice Project, and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

With Bill V. Mullen, Awad created the website Against Canary Mission in 2018, intended to counter the Canary Mission blacklist of Palestine solidarity activists.

Awad co-edited the book Palestine: A Socialist Introduction with brian bean.

On October 13, 2023, Awad appeared on NY1 to discuss the Gaza war.

“It’s just so astonishing that we have to be out here starving in the cold to relay the message that Palestinians deserve to live. And that Palestinians deserve to be grieved, just like any other person.” — Sumaya Awad — The Washington Post

Personal life Awad lives in New York City. She has a young daughter, who spent time in a neonatal intensive care unit after birth; Awad has drawn parallels between her own daughter's experience and that of infants in the 2023 Gaza Strip preterm birth crisis.

Her grandfather's family lived in West Jerusalem before being expelled into Lebanon during the Nakba.