Ibrahim Shikaki

Al-Shabaka Policy Member Ibrahim Shikaki is an Economics PhD Student at the New School for Social Research in New York. He was previously lead economic researcher for Diakonia’s International Humanitarian Law Research Center  and instructor of economics at the universities of Birzeit and Al Quds. He also worked as a research associate at the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS). His recent writings include work on UNCTAD’s The Palestinian economy in East Jerusalem: Enduring annexation, isolation and disintegration; “Between Marshall and Kerry: economic plans with political engines” in Al Hadaf Magazine; and development as a tool for resistance with Alaa Tartir in Bisan Research Center’s “Critical studies of development in Palestine.”