Articles & Opinions

Articles and opinion from Pal-Think researchers

Fighting poverty in Gaza demands developmental interventions — By Omar Shaban. Gaza grows poorer with every sunrise: the middle class — the keeper of a healthy society's balance — is dissolving, while the poor and destitute swell into the…
The oil-price shock will hasten the move to living with COVID-19 — By Omar Shaban. I wrote weeks ago that the world could not endure this economic paralysis and would move from lockdown to living with the virus. Oil prices collapsing far below…
A pause over the «Waqfet Izz» fund — By Omar Shaban. The «Waqfet Izz» fund was created by presidential decree on 2 April 2020 to gather private-sector and community donations against the coronavirus emergency,…
COVID-19 in the Gaza Strip: a different context, and added challenges — By Omar Shaban. Gaza needed no new challenge to deepen its catastrophe: 200 square miles, two million people, a 14-year blockade, three devastating wars and dozens of short…
Can Gaza fight COVID-19? — By Abdelaziz Abu Zayed. Thousands die daily of COVID-19, which has historically upended economies and social life — above all in the US and Europe, whose health systems, the…
COVID-19 and September 11: how the virus is redrawing alliances and international priorities — By Omar Shaban. Great events — the two world wars, Sykes-Picot, the Soviet collapse — have fundamentally reordered international relations and priorities. The pandemic now…
The «Youth Participate» programme concludes — Pal-Think concluded the «Youth Participate» radio series, part of the Canada-funded «Promoting democratic participation of Palestinian youth» project, hosting director Omar Shaban…
«Graduates and online freelancing» — a radio episode of Youth Participate — Young Palestinians raise «Graduates and online freelancing» on the «Youth Participate» programme: Abdullah Abu Shamla and Mai Al-Sous prepared the research paper under the…
Youth Participate: the situation of women lawyers in the Gaza bar association — «The condition of women lawyers in Gaza's bar association» — the research paper of trainees Mariam Abu Amra and Hadeel Jad, produced in the «Writing and intellectual creativity»…