Projects — Middle East
This two-year project examines the increasing restrictions placed on Palestinian and Israeli civil society and how the failure to reach a comprehensive Palestinian-Israeli peace impacts communities and civil rights in the United States.
Programs
The Middle East Program in Washington combines in-depth regional knowledge with incisive comparative analysis to provide deeply informed recommendations. With expertise in the Gulf, North Africa, Iran, and Israel/Palestine, we examine crosscutting themes of political, economic, and social change in both English and Arabic.
Book
Civic space is shrinking across the globe. Every year, human rights defenders, humanitarians, social justice activists, and their organizations face new threats in their ability to advocate for change, organize campaigns, or protest against oppressive policies. Nowhere is this crisis of civil society more acute than in the context of dissent and speech related to Palestine–Israel.
Video
In this documentary filmed during the Ramadan and the Easter holidays, two residents of Bethlehem, a Muslim observing Ramadan and an Orthodox Christian priest, talk about how they navigate travel to holy sites through obstacles and checkpoints.
As often occurs in conflict zones, Palestinian women and children have paid the highest price of Israel’s military assault in Gaza.
Mahran Issa
With foreign media barred from entering Gaza, the only working journalists inside the enclave are Palestinians who face the same challenges and dangers as the civilians they report on, including famine, displacement, and the loss of family and friends. This documentary tells the stories of three of these journalists.
Israeli practices in the West Bank have threatened Palestinian schools, but students are determined to learn.
Ghousoon Bisharat
