Shatha Abdulsamad is a Palestinian researcher and policy analyst based in Berlin. She previously served as a researcher at the Alternative Policy Solutions public policy research project at the American University in Cairo, as Political Officer at the British Consulate in Jerusalem, and as Program Manager at the German think-tank Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. Shatha holds an MA in International Human Rights Law and Refugee Studies from the American University in Cairo, and a higher diploma in Strategic and Political Communication from Birzeit University. Shatha was an Erasmus Mundus Scholar to Belgium, and holds a second master’s in Business Management from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
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For decades, Israel has spearheaded a campaign against UNRWA meant to erase the question of Palestinian refugees and their collective right of return. While not new, the latest defunding of the agency by Israel’s allies is unprecedented in terms of its scope and perilous timing.
