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Pal-Think research output — studies, policy briefs and reports

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…
A new release from Pal-Think for Strategic Studies — Pal-Think published «Community issues through the eyes of Palestinian youth» — eleven research papers by fifteen young researchers trained in expression and intellectual writing,…
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…
Youth Participate: scientific research in Palestine — «Scientific research is the systematic way of studying a phenomenon to reach the truth» — with these words Dr. Khaled Safi of Al-Aqsa University opened episode ten of «Youth…
«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»…
Research papers on international experiences of nonviolence — «Moving and transitioning: an analysis of South Africa's transitional period», by Fadila Mohammed and Anis Daraghmeh — reading one of the twentieth century's most important…
Article — the G7 is the VIP club of states, and its achievements fall far short of its means — The G7 gathers the world's largest economies — the US, Britain, Germany, France, Japan, Italy and Canada. Founded in 1975 as a consultative framework after the oil crisis of the…
Iran's economy reels under American sanctions — By Omar Shaban. The American decision to deepen sanctions on Iran and impose a total ban on Iranian oil sales deals a heavy blow to an economy already strained since the…