Broederlijk Delen, Oxfam Belgium, Solidagro, SolSoc and Viva Salud present the study “Shrinking Space for Palestinian Civil Society: 2017-2022 and the War on Gaza”, by Dr. Jeremy Wildeman, Dr. Alaa Tartir and Ms. Salma Shaheen. This study, supported by Belgian … Continue reading Shrinking Space for Palestinian Civil Society: 2017-2022 and the War on Gaza
تتسارع التغيرات والتطورات الإقليمية والترتيبات الأمنية المصاحبة لها وتتأرجح موازين القوى وتتباين التحالفات والآفاق المستقبلية للمنطقة، ولكن تظل القضية الفلسطينية محورية ومحددة لمستقبل المنطقة برمتها كما ظهر جليا خلال الأشهر الماضية. إلاّ أن التغييرات الجوهرية التي تحدث في سوريا ولبنان … Continue reading التطورات الإقليمية وتأثيرها على فلسطين: مع التركيز على سوريا
MENA-Asia defense cooperation has witnessed considerable developments over the last couple of years. Under its “Look West” policy, India has expanded its bilateral maritime defense cooperation with a number of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states. Signaling growing trilateral cooperation, India, … Continue reading Asia & the Middle East Beyond Energy: Towards Security and Defense Cooperation
بعد أكثر من عام من القتل الإسرائيلي الممنهج والإبادة الجماعية والدمار الشامل والألم اللامنتهي، قد يبدو الحديث عن مستقبل غزة وعملية إعادة الإعمار واليوم التالي وإحياء القطاع واسترجاع أشكال الحياة المفقودة، صعباً إن لم يكن مستحيلا. ولكن على النقيض من … Continue reading تصورات استشرافية ورؤى سياساتية فلسطينية لغزة ومستقبلها
For many years, China has been expanding its influence to every corner of the globe. And while its strategic priorities remain anchored in the Western Pacific—where it faces great-power rivalry with the United States, myriad territorial disputes, tensions on the Korean Peninsula … Continue reading Thinking Through China’s Middle East Policy Amid War
Like two sunbirds, they flew into our podcast studio and filled it with spices, flavors, stories, colors and a magical book and box. Alaa and Victoria have created a children book in Palestine that received the 2024 award in IBBY’s … Continue reading Alaa and Victoria Open Up the Box of Stories
Reimagining Palestine Public Lecture Series | Resisting Domination in Palestine: International Aid, Security, and State/Peace Building as Sites of Settler Colonial Control The ongoing social, political, and conceptual struggles of Palestine against a settler-colonial regime reveal a dynamic interplay between … Continue reading Resisting Domination in Palestine
When the Islamic State was in control of the Nineveh Plains of Iraq between 2014 and 2017, it sought to destroy the region’s cultural diversity by targeting ethnic and religious communities and their ways of life. This has severely undermined … Continue reading Strengthening Social Cohesion in the Nineveh Plains of Iraq
أزمة مالية خانقة تعانيها السلطة الفلسطينية منذ أكتوبر الماضي بعد قرار وزير المالية الإسرائيلي تجميد تحويل أموال المقاصة لخزينة السلطة، والتي تشكل رافدًا أساسيًا من روافد ميزانيتها المخصصة لدفع رواتب العاملين في القطاع الحكومي وبقية مصاريفها سبعة شهور انقضت، استقالت … Continue reading الحصار المالي.. هل بدأ تجفيف منابع السلطة؟
الأزمة المالية للسلطة الفلسطينية مزمنة وبنيوية وليست وليدة اللحظة، إذ بنيت السلطة لتكون معتمدة اقتصادياً على أموال المانحين وعلى قرارات قوة الاحتلال، إسرائيل، وإملاءاتها بموجب إطار اتفاقية أوسلو، فبروتوكول باريس الاقتصادي (الملحق الاقتصادي لاتفاقية أوسلو الأمنية السياسية) هو الإطار المؤسّساتي … Continue reading في الأزمة المالية البنيوية للسلطة الفلسطينية
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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?
“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?
Alaa Tartir, Program Director of Al-Shabaka, Engaged Scholar, Global Citizen 