A conversation with Sam Bahour
Today we have a conversation with Sam Bahour. Sam is a Palestinian-American businessman, born in Youngstown, Ohio, and now living in Ramallah, Palestine. He is currently an independent director at the Arab Islamic Bank, a policy analyst at Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network, and an advisory board member of the Open Society Foundations’ Middle East […]
A Prison Break Liberates the Palestinian Political Imagination
Six detainees’ dramatic escape from a maximum-security Israeli prison has sparked demonstrations across the occupied territories and shifted Palestinians’ sense of what is possible.
Political Economy of Palestine Critical, Interdisciplinary, and Decolonial Perspectives
Ongoing developments in the region demonstrate once again the failures of “economic peace” and the need for such a politics of solidarity that a critical political economy approach takes.
Is the Two-State Solution Still Viable?
Foreign Affairs Asks the Experts
Alaa Tartir, Tariq Dana, and Timothy Seidel, eds., Political Economy of Palestine: Critical, Interdisciplinary, and Decolonial Perspectives
An approach to economics that does not consider the political—a de-politicized economics—is inadequate to understanding the situation in occupied Palestine.
Pegasus: Flying on the wings of Israeli ‘cyber-tech diplomacy’?
What was the role of the Israeli state in the spread of an insidious piece of malware? Plus, PR companies and the work they do with controversial governments.
The draconian law used by Israel to steal Palestinian land
Analysts say all outposts are a backdoor to keep claiming Palestinian land after Israel committed to freezing settlements in the Oslo Accords in 1993.
Palestijnse demonstranten eisen vertrek Palestijns president Abbas
Na de dood van de prominente Palestijnse activist Nizar Banat trekken Palestijnen al dagen woedend de straat op tegen de Palestijnse Autoriteit. De onrust wakkert de populariteit van Hamas aan.
Egypt used Gaza ceasefire to ‘improve its standing in Washington’
Egypt tried to prove to Washington it can still handle the ‘Palestinian file’ when it brokered the latest Israel-Hamas ceasefire, experts say
