Why is a collective narrative important to the Palestinian liberation struggle? What challenges do the Palestinian people face in promoting their narrative, and who has legitimacy to promulgate it?
Al-Shabaka analysts Tamara Ben-Halim and Hazem Jamjoum weigh in on these questions and more in this month’s Palestine Policy Lab, facilitated by Amjad Iraqi.
Tamara Ben-Halim is a co-founder, trustee, and former director of Makan, a Palestinian-led nonprofit based in the UK that works to strengthen voices for Palestinian rights through educational and capacity-building programs. She also co-founded Cycling4Gaza, an initiative that has raised over $1.2 million for vulnerable Palestinian communities in Gaza since 2009. She holds an MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and an MA in Modern European Languages from the University of Edinburgh.
Al-Shabaka Policy Member Hazem Jamjoum is a graduate student in Modern Middle East History at New York University. His writing has focused on political-economy approaches to Israeli colonialism and Palestinian elite formation, and critiques of partition-based conflict management “solutions,” among other areas.
