Birzeit University

More than five years after the Hamas movement was swept into power in an upset election victory, the Palestinians will going back to the polls again…

AS A YOUNG BOY IN Jerusalem in the early days of the Jewish state, I learned to speak Arabic from the textbook written by Dr. Yisrael Ben- Zeev. This…

SAM BAHOUR, A TOWERING man who is barely contained by his American Levis, returned to his father’s hometown of El-Bireh in 1995, at the age of 29. He…

Attempting to curb soaring public corruption, the Palestinian Authority (PA) on Wednesday inaugurated a new court in Ramallah to deal with the…

A FEW DAYS AGO, WHILE IN the offices of Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, I heard about a complaint from the small village of…

A Palestinian prisoner at a Negev prison has received a doctorate degree in Public Administration from an American university, according to the…

The loosening of the land blockade of the Gaza Strip applies only to goods, not people, the state informed the High Court of Justice during a hearing…

Among the themes that top the list of the coming year’s publications dealing with the Middle East are Iranian history, Lebanon’s vibrancy, Saudi…

Though an Interior Ministry spokesperson later called it a “misunderstanding,” the blocking of Noam Chomsky’s entrance to the West Bank by an Israeli…

“There are a million reasons why someone would be denied entry into Israel,” said Interior Ministry spokeswoman Sabine Hadad on Monday, responding to…

Claiming to be under unprecedented threat, the powerful Israel academic Left has launched fierce counter-attacks on enemies, real and imagined, among…

The Interior Ministry on Sunday denied entry to Jewish American linguist Prof. Noam Chomsky – one of Israel’s fiercest opponents in academia –…

Noam Chomsky was denied entry into Israel via the Allenby Bridge border crossing on Sunday, he told Channel 10's Yaron London. The world-renowned…

The Interior Ministry denied entry to Jewish American linguist Professor Noam Chomsky – one of Israel's fiercest opponents – on Sunday and turned him…

Rumors of an imminent reshuffle in the Palestinian cabinet have ignited debate over expanding Fatah Party presence under the independent Prime…

The summer of 2011. That is when Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has scheduled the unveiling of the new and completely reformed,…

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has blamed Iran for impeding reconciliation between his Fatah faction and its archrival Hamas.  “Iran…

Jailed Fatah official Marwan Barghouti, who is serving five life terms in prison for his role in attacks that killed and wounded several Israelis…

The majority of women in Gaza are being denied their inheritance rights, a survey by a Gaza-based women’s rights advocacy group has found.     The…

The majority of women in Gaza are being denied their inheritance rights, a survey by a Gaza-based women’s rights advocacy group has found.     The…