Mjriam Abu Samra is a Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage at the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari, Italy, and at the Department of Anthropology at UC Davis. Her work focuses on the Palestinian transnational student movement across different historical periods and its contribution to the Palestinian liberation project. She previously completed her master’s in Middle East politics at SOAS and her doctorate in International Relations at the University of Oxford. Mjriam is a co-founder of the transnational Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) and has been actively involved in Palestinian youth organizing in Italy and Europe.
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Palestinian parties remain entrenched in the political system despite their splits and weaknesses. What role can they play within - or outside - the PLO and what other avenues exist for national or local leadership? While some Al-Shabaka policy analysts offer ideas beyond the current political set-up, others suggest ways to make the current structure work.
