A Podcast/Interview with Dr. Alaa Tartir on Palestine’s dependence on international aid. Recorded in July 2023 and published in December 2025 as part of thorough and detailed investigation on aid Aid Industry in Palestine by Fumaça 🟥 Here is a … Continue reading Podcast/Interview: Aid Industry in Palestine
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
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
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
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
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
In the The Middle East, Sixteenth Edition, Ellen Lust brings important new coverage to this comprehensive, balanced, and superbly researched text. In clear prose, Lust and her outstanding contributors explain the landscape of this changing region by examining both regional … Continue reading Palestine – The Middle East, Sixteenth Edition
Why, how, and by whom is development denied in Palestine? Why have over US $ 45 billion in international aid since the 1993 Oslo Accords failed to alter the existing skewed and distorted political and economic frameworks, but instead entrenched … Continue reading Political Economy of Palestine: Critical Perspectives
What are the structural shifts needed for the emergence of an emancipatory people-led development strategy for Palestinians? How can donor aid and funding be restructured by Palestinians themselves to bring about a solidarity- (not charity-) based funding landscape? And what … Continue reading Liberation Will Not Be Funded: Alternatives to Donor Dependence
In the first episode of Shifting Tides, Elif Zaim and Michael Arnold talk with Dr. Alaa Tartir, Program Advisor to Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network about the political economy of aid to Palestine. They discuss the Oslo Accords, why aid … Continue reading Podcast – International Aid to Palestine with Alaa Tartir
Political economy is concerned with institutions, relations of power, and social conflict and struggle. A key task of political economy is to historicize and (re)politicize economics, as politics and economics are deeply inter-related and reside in (and emerge from) particular … Continue reading Political Economy Of Development In Palestine: A Critical Perspective
Over US$40 billion has been spent by international donors as foreign aid for Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip since the Oslo Accord was signed in 1993. This makes Palestinians one of the highest … Continue reading Political Economy of Foreign Aid in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: A Conceptual Framing
This book explores the political economy of Palestine through critical, interdisciplinary, and decolonial perspectives, underscoring that an approach to economics that does not consider the political—a de-politicized economics—is inadequate to understanding the situation in occupied Palestine. A critical interdisciplinary approach to political … Continue reading Political Economy of Palestine Critical, Interdisciplinary, and Decolonial Perspectives
The Biden Administration cannot deviate from the traditional US policy approaches towards Palestinians of ‘economic peace’ and ‘peace dividends’. Therefore, few should be surprised if the new administration chooses US aid as their entry point to re-engage with the Palestinian … Continue reading Biden’s Impending Billions to Palestine
In observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people UN-ESCWA and the Palestinian Policy Network (Al-Shabaka) are holding a public webinar on Palestinians and International Aid: Occupation, Change and Solidarity, featuring: Alaa Tartir, Program and Policy Advisor … Continue reading Webinar – Palestinians and International Aid: Occupation, Change and Solidarity
Since the Oslo I Accord was signed in 1993, more than $40bn has been spent by international donors as foreign aid for Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. As long-time analysts, we have … Continue reading It’s Time to Rethink the Structure of Palestinian Aid
Lara Friedman, president of FMEP, in conversation with Inès Abdel Razek, the Advocacy Director of the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy, Zayne Abudaka, an economist and private sector development specialist, and Dr. Alaa Tartir, Researcher and Academic Coordinator at the … Continue reading Webinar – Is it Time to Reform International Aid to Palestine?
L’Ue ha lanciato Eupol Copps nel 2006 per sostenere la nascita di uno Stato palestinese indipendente e democratico. Piú di un decennio dopo, l’Ue considera Eupol Copps una delle sue migliori missioni che ha professionalizzato il settore della polizia e … Continue reading La Missione Di Polizia Dell’unione Europea Nei Territori Palestinesi
The lack of a sovereign Palestinian state and the continuation of the Israeli illegal military occupation according to international law, have profoundly affected the social transformation, institutional development, political economy, and politics of Palestine. This chapter also reflects on the … Continue reading Palestine
Despite Israel’s flagrant violations of international law and the stark failure of the formal Palestinian leadership to address the aspirations of the Palestinian people, the transformative potential of a mobilised, resourceful and resilient people should not be overlooked. Co-written with … Continue reading How local resistance challenges power structures in Palestine
Alaa Tartir discusses his new edited anthology: Palestine and Rule of Power: Local Dissent vs. International Governance. A new look into how international aid and also the Palestinian security reform are mechanisms which are used to crush Palestinian resistance to … Continue reading Palestine and Rule of Power
Alaa Tartir, Program Director of Al-Shabaka, Engaged Scholar, Global Citizen 