Policy Lab

Palestinian Leadership: What a New Model Might Look Like

by Marwa Fatafta, Fadi Quran, Alaa Tartir on August 22, 2018

Current Palestinian governance is facing a legitimacy crisis. So what alternative options exist? Is a fully representative leadership even possible in the Palestinian context?

Al-Shabaka analysts Marwa Fatafta and Fadi Quran will explore these questions and more in our second policy lab, facilitated by Alaa Tartir.

Alaa Tartir

Alaa Tartir is Program and Policy Advisor to Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network. Tartir is also a Senior Researcher and Academic Coordinator at the Geneva Graduate Institute (GGI), a Research Associate at the GGI’s Centre on Conflict, Development, and Peacebuilding (CCDP), and a Global Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Tartir earned his PhD degree in International Development studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Tartir is co-editor of Resisting Domination in Palestine: New Techniques of Control, Coloniality and Settler Colonialism (I. B. Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2023), Political Economy of Palestine: Critical, Interdisciplinary, and Decolonial Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) and Palestine and Rule of Power: Local Dissent vs. International Governance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Tartir can be followed on Twitter (@alaatartir), and his publications can be accessed at www.alaatartir.com