Events

In our first Palestine Policy Lab session, Al-Shabaka analysts Yara Hawari and Diana Buttu weigh in on the usefulness of the Apartheid framework in the Palestinian context.

Al-Shabaka analysts Tareq Baconi and Noura Erakat join the Middle East Institute and Foundation for Middle East Peace for a discussion of 70 years of Palestinian resistance.

"This idea of infiltration is just misrepresenting reality on the ground. These people aren’t infiltrating. They are people under occupation. And Israel has the responsibility, under international law, to protect civilians under its occupation," Al-Shabaka analyst Tareq Baconi tells Democracy Now.  

Al-Shabaka co-founder and president Nadia Hijab speaks to Channel 4's Jon Snow on the latest developments in Gaza

2018 marks 70 years since the Nakba and Israel’s dispossession of the Palestinian people and violation of their rights. Yet, an end to their oppression and displacement remains out of reach. Indeed the discourse about what constitutes Palestine and the Palestinian people has been steadily circumscribed during this period, and the focus on the ephemeral two-state solution has excluded the majority of Palestinians from the quest for a just peace. Nadia Hijab, Executive Director of Al-Shabaka, with Zena Agha and Yara Hawari, Policy Fellows of Al Shabaka, discuss how reframing the narrative on Palestine could help further the Palestinian struggle for freedom.

In presenting his latest book, "America’s Dream Palace," Osamah S. Khalil discusses the ways U.S. foreign policy has shaped the emergence of expertise (both through think tanks and academic studies) concerning the Middle East, a crucial, often turbulent, and misunderstood part of the world.

On Saturday 27th January, Nadia Hijab, Executive Director of Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network, joined PSC members at the Annual General Meeting.

Al-Shabaka Program Director Alaa Tartir joins the Belgrade Security Forum to discuss the role and consequences of the EU's police force presence in Palestine.

Al-Shabaka Executive Director Nadia Hijab joins Phyllis Bennis and Jewish Voice for Peace on Facebook for a critical discussion on Palestine in the current political climate.

In the midst of pressing humanitarian concerns, what options do Palestinians and Israelis have to help prevent renewed violence? How can the United States and the international community bring the question of Gaza back into regional deliberations and the peace process?