Alain Epp Weaver worked with Mennonite Central Committee in Palestine for eleven years (1992-1996 and 1999-2006), including two years as program coordinator in the Gaza Strip and later as MCC's director for program in Palestine-Israel, Jordan, and Iraq. He is the author of Mapping Exile and Return: Palestinian Dispossession and a Political Theology for a Shared Future (Fortress, 2014) and Inhabiting the Land: Thinking Theologically about the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (Cascade, 2018).