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Public companies in Palestine (3): board membership and fees that can reach $3,000 an hour — Within the series on Palestine's public and private shareholding companies, this article takes up board membership: how directors are chosen, their astronomical bonuses, and the…
Public companies in Palestine (2): the case of the non-banking financial sector — In a previous article — number one of this series on Palestine's shareholding companies and their role in development and modernisation — I noted that the Israeli occupation…
Public companies in Palestine (1): what goes unsaid far exceeds what is declared — Over the coming period, a series of articles on the public and private shareholding companies and those owned by the Palestinian Authority — shedding light on this sector's…
Activists and experts recommend activating women's role in the national reconciliation committees — Community activists and experts recommended activating Palestinian women's role and guaranteeing their participation in the national-reconciliation committees, civic gatherings…
Fourth «Face the Public» session — Sayel: a call to shield the electricity crisis from political tug-of-war — Walid Salman, CEO of the Gaza power-generation company, said the electricity crisis demands that the Gaza and West Bank governments join hands to end it — speaking on Pal-Think's…
Third «Face the Public» session — Tony Blair, Quartet envoy: significant changes to the Gaza blockade will be noticed soon — Pal-Think held the third episode of «Face the Public» with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, hosting by video-conference Quartet representative Tony Blair — «The Quartet's role in…
John Ging: despite the acute financial crisis UNRWA will not stop its services — and we hope the Arab states raise their contributions — Pal-Think held the first session of «Face the Public» — «UNRWA between enormous needs and limited resources» — hosting John Ging, UNRWA's director of operations in Gaza, under the…
Gaza's painters plead for reconciliation with brush and colour — Painters and artists in Gaza City gave free rein to their imagination, expressing the dreams and pains of the Palestinian people in a mural created in the Rimal quarter — «Youth…
At a Pal-Think conference in Gaza City: a genuine opportunity exists to end the division and restore national unity — Politicians, political and community forces, academics, media and intellectuals stressed the need to restore national unity between the homeland's two halves and end the division,…