What are the main challenges that Palestinian citizens of Israel face in terms of leadership? What opportunities exist in the current political context to gain visibility and overcome geo-political fragmentation with those in the West Bank and Gaza?
In our first policy lab of 2019, Al-Shabaka analysts Abir Kopty and Amjad Iraqi join Yara Hawari to weigh in on these questions and more.
Yara Hawari is Al-Shabaka’s co-director. She previously served as the Palestine policy fellow and senior analyst. Yara completed her PhD in Middle East Politics at the University of Exeter, where she taught various undergraduate courses and continues to be an honorary research fellow. In addition to her academic work, which focused on indigenous studies and oral history, she is a frequent political commentator writing for various media outlets including The Guardian, Foreign Policy, and Al Jazeera English.
Abir Kopty is Deputy Director of Communication at the European Legal Support Center (ELSC), based in Berlin. She holds an MA in Political Communication from City University London and a PhD in Communication and Media Studies from the Freie Universität Berlin. She has worked as a communication officer and spokesperson for Palestinian human rights and media organizations in Haifa and Ramallah, and her political analysis and reporting have appeared in Middle East Eye, TRT, Mondoweiss, and The Nation.
