Climate Change and Environmental Injustice in MENA
In the context of COP28 and the specific regional challenges facing the Middle East, Arab Center Washington DC (ACW) and the MENA Programme at Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) are organizing this webinar to discuss the regional impacts of climate change and opportunities for a … Continue reading Climate Change and Environmental Injustice in MENA
The Growing Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza
Today, approximately 30,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than two million people are experiencing acute and sustained humanitarian stress. Hospitals are overwhelmed, infectious diseases are spreading, there is mounting risk of famine, and daily life is filled with extreme … Continue reading The Growing Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza
The keys for Palestinian unity are not in Moscow
In this “Med This Week”, I argue that the “Moscow route” delivered very little over the past decade as far as intra-Palestinian political reconciliation is concerned. The keys for a Palestinian unity are not in Moscow. However, as the current … Continue reading The keys for Palestinian unity are not in Moscow
طرق التمويل البديلة للمنظمات الفلسطينية
استجابة لتغير مشهد التمويل لمنظمات المجتمع المدني الفلسطيني، هناك حاجة الآن أكثر من أي وقت مضى للابتعاد عن التمويل المشروط والسياسي. لقد تم توثيق الضرر الذي تسببه المساعدات في فلسطين بشكل جيد، والسؤال الآن هو: كيف يمكننا بناء طرق جديدة … Continue reading طرق التمويل البديلة للمنظمات الفلسطينية
Resisting Domination in Palestine : Mechanisms and Techniques of Control, Coloniality and Settler Colonialism
This meticulously curated edited volume presents an assemblage of insightful, critical, and contemporary perspectives on how Israeli domination has been sustained and reproduced in new forms and means using various mechanisms and techniques of control, coloniality, and settler colonialism. Based … Continue reading Resisting Domination in Palestine : Mechanisms and Techniques of Control, Coloniality and Settler Colonialism
The Securitization of Everyday Life: Where are the People?
States and regimes tend to focus more on physical and military security than human security and non-traditional threats. Many governments justify increased armament spending based on the possibility of military threats and external invasion. While the possibility of conventional military … Continue reading The Securitization of Everyday Life: Where are the People?
Recentering Palestine: Shifting Regional Dynamics
This webinar will focus on regional dynamics in light of the war in Gaza. For decades, Palestine was the central question for Arab countries, an epicenter for mobilization and alliances. Starting with the Camp David accords in 1978, and later … Continue reading Recentering Palestine: Shifting Regional Dynamics
اختراق الحواجز الاستعمارية
لا يكتفي استعمار الشعوب الأصلية والسكان الأصليين بحصرهم مكانيًا، بل يحصرهم نفسيًا أيضًا. إنّ القمع والقهر الاستعماري المستمر ومحاولات المحو تعيد توجيه طاقات المناضلين من أجل التحرر إلى اللحظة الراهنة، وتعوق القدرة على تصور أشكال المستقبل البديل لقد كان اختراق … Continue reading اختراق الحواجز الاستعمارية
Breaking Through Colonial Barriers
Colonization confines indigenous and native peoples, not only spatially but also psychologically. Continuous colonial repression, subjugation, and attempts at erasure redirect the energies of those struggling for liberation to the immediate, and hinder the capacity to imagine possibilities for alternative … Continue reading Breaking Through Colonial Barriers
Gaza: Nowhere to leave?
In this “Med This Week”, I argue that Palestinians should flee “inwards” towards their towns they have been expelled from in the first place, and not flee “outwards” towards other sites of refuge and exile. Published by The Italian Institute for … Continue reading Gaza: Nowhere to leave?
Amid Escalating Violence, is Dialogue Possible on Gaza?
“After the Hamas attacks to Southern Israel on 7 October last, violence is escalating in Israel-Palestine, with the nightmare of a long-lasting war and a destiny of death and sufferings looming large. Against this backdrop, the risk of a conflict … Continue reading Amid Escalating Violence, is Dialogue Possible on Gaza?
The Palestinian Authority’s Revolving Door with Alaa Tartir
Alaa Tartir joins host Yara Hawari to discuss the revolving door/al-bab al-dawaar, a critical component of PA-Israeli security coordination. They situate the policy within the wider “collaboration paradigm” and examine its disruptive impact on Palestinian resistance and the liberation movement. … Continue reading The Palestinian Authority’s Revolving Door with Alaa Tartir
أوسلو”… 30 عاماً من تشويه السلام”
يتطلب تجاوز المسار الذي تمليه اتفاقات أوسلو، وعواقبه الوخيمة، انخراطًا جدّيًا في إعادة تفكير جذرية في الإطار المهيمن الراهن للاستيضاح حول الفائدة المؤسسية التي تُحققها السلطة الفلسطينية ودورها في النضال من أجل تقرير المصير. يقتضي التصدّي لأوجه القصور البُنيوي التي … Continue reading أوسلو”… 30 عاماً من تشويه السلام”
Oslo Accords: Thirty Years of Peace Distortion
Three decades on, the Oslo accords framework continues to affect and shape major aspects of Palestinian life and death. Since its inception and adoption, Oslo has created processes, institutions, and arrangements in Palestinian society that have resulted in major structural transformations and deficiencies, particularly … Continue reading Oslo Accords: Thirty Years of Peace Distortion
The PA’s Revolving Door: A Key Policy in Security Coordination
Last month, Israeli forces violently raided the West Bank city of Jenin. PA President Mahmoud Abbas visited the area shortly thereafter, accompanied by a slew of Palestinian security forces. Days later, the PA began an arrest campaign of its own, … Continue reading The PA’s Revolving Door: A Key Policy in Security Coordination
الباب الدوار: أحد سياسات السلطة الفلسطينية الرئيسية في التنسيق الأمني
عاثت القوات الإسرائيلية الفسادَ في مدينة جنين بالضفة الغربية إبان اجتياحها الشهر الماضي. وبُعيد العملية، زارَ رئيسُ السلطة الفلسطينية محمود عباس المنطقة بصحبة لفيفٍ من قوات الأمن الفلسطينية. وبعدها بأيام، شنت السلطة الفلسطينية حملة اعتقالات طالت أعضاءَ من فصائل مختلفة … Continue reading الباب الدوار: أحد سياسات السلطة الفلسطينية الرئيسية في التنسيق الأمني
غموض وشكوك بشأن المساعدات الدولية للفلسطينيين
منذ توقيع اتفاق أوسلو الأول في عام 1993، أنفق المانحون الدوليون أكثر من 50 مليار دولار مساعدات خارجية في الأرض الفلسطينية المحتلة. وقد جرى توجيه هذا التمويل من خلال نموذج تنموي غربي، صُمّم على الأقلّ ظاهريا، لتعزيز التنمية الاقتصادية والمؤسّسية … Continue reading غموض وشكوك بشأن المساعدات الدولية للفلسطينيين
Palestine: How Western Aid Enables Israel’s Colonialism
Since the Oslo I Accord was signed in 1993, international donors have expended more than $50bn in foreign aid in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). That funding has been channelled through a western development model that was designed, at least on the surface, to foster Palestinian economic and … Continue reading Palestine: How Western Aid Enables Israel’s Colonialism
Opaque and Inaccessible: International Donor Aid Funding to Palestine 2017-2021
Over $45 billions of international donor aid has been spent in the Occupied Palestinian Territory since 1993. This funding is disbursed with limited oversight or control by Palestinians, despite having tremendous influence over their governing structures and daily lives, in … Continue reading Opaque and Inaccessible: International Donor Aid Funding to Palestine 2017-2021
Funder or Censor? How Politically Conditioned Funding Undermines Palestinian Self-determination
What is politically conditioned funding? How does it impact Palestinian civil society and the Palestinian liberation movement at large? These questions and more are addressed in this public webinar on politically conditioned funding that we organized in the context of … Continue reading Funder or Censor? How Politically Conditioned Funding Undermines Palestinian Self-determination
التطرّف العنيف في ساحل شمال أفريقيا: التصوّرات ومكامن الضعف
ارتفعت حصيلة الوفيات وأعداد الضحايا الناجمة عن النزاع في الساحل الأفريقي عشر مرات بين عامي 2007 و2021. تصاعد نسبة العنف، لا سيما ذاك المرتبط بأشكال التطرف العنيف، أدى إلى تغييرات هيكلية وبنيوية ضارة متعددة الأوجه في المجتمعات القاطنة في المنطقة، وإعاقة … Continue reading التطرّف العنيف في ساحل شمال أفريقيا: التصوّرات ومكامن الضعف
Alaa Tartir, Program Director of Al-Shabaka, Engaged Scholar, Global Citizen 