September 2018 marks the 25th anniversary of the Oslo Accords. Looking back, how did the agreement impact the Palestinian national project and cohesion as a people? What does a post-Oslo Palestine look like?
Al-Shabaka analysts Sam Bahour and Amal Ahmad delve into these questions and more in this month’s Palestine Policy Lab, facilitated by Nadia Hijab.
Sam Bahour leads Applied Information Management (AIM), a business development consulting firm. Bahour was instrumental in establishing two publicly traded firms: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He currently serves as a board member at Just Vision and The Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS), and served as an independent director at the Arab Islamic Bank PLC from 2004 to 2025. He speaks and writes frequently on Palestinian affairs, blogs at epalestine.ps, and has been widely published in leading outlets. He is co-editor of Homeland: Oral History of Palestine and Palestinians (Olive Branch Press, 1993).
Nadia Hijab is co-founder and honorary president of Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network. She served as Board President from 2010-2021 and as Executive Director between 2011 and March 2018. A writer, public speaker and media commentator, Hijab’s first book, Womanpower: The Arab Debate on Women at Work was published by Cambridge University Press and she co-authored Citizens Apart: A Portrait of Palestinians in Israel (I. B. Tauris). She was Editor-in-Chief of the London-based Middle East Magazine before serving at the United Nations in New York. She is a co-founder and former co-chair of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights and now serves on its advisory board. She continues to serve Al-Shabaka in an advisory capacity and support its mission.
