Palestine

Jessica Nabongo in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia Elton Anderson Last month, 35-year-old Jessica Nabongo became the first black woman to visit every country in the worldthat is, 195 total UN member countries and observing states, including the Vatican and Palestine.…

Ramallah in the West Bank, Palestine Getty On 29 November 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted the Resolution 181 (II), a plan to divide Palestine into an Arab and a Jewish state with the twofold aim of recognizing the Palestinian peoples right to self-det…

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The recent United States announcement that it no longer believes the establishment of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank is "inconsistent with international law" provoked an immediate response internationally, including in Brussels. Within hours o…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed hope for an early resumption of talks between Israel and Palestine to move towards a comprehensive and negotiated resolution, as he reiterated Indias strong support for the Palestinian cause. Ahead of the Internatio…

In 2005 I was working for the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah. Twelve years had passed since the 1993 Oslo Accords. The PA had been set up the following year to administer civil life in Gaza and in some parts of the West Bank, designated Area A under the Ac…

In recent weeks there has been a considerable increase in the number of official high-level exchanges between the Russian government and Hamas. But could this deepening relationship help the latter break the isolation imposed on it by the United States and it…

Travelers usually visit Palestine’s West Bank for its historic cities and biblical sites, rather than its adventure offerings. But in 2014, Americans Tim Bruns and Will Harris arrived looking to change that. Bruns and Harris were studying abroad in Jordan in …

On November 2019, Morocco held the annual international forum MEDays, which takes place every year in Tangier under the high patronage of King Mohammed VI, organised by the Amadeus Institute.MEDays Forum is considered a strategic meeting for global players in…

Michael Bloomberg, to borrow a line from Elizabeth Warren, is running in the wrong presidential primary. The billionaire ex-mayor of New York formally announced his candidacy over the weekend but Warrens recent rebuke of Joe Biden seems an even better fit …