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The Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS) is the only institute in the world exclusively devoted to research, analysis, and publication on Palestinian affairs and the Arab-Israeli conflict. IPS was established in Beirut in 1963 and also has offices in Washington D.C., an affiliate in Ramallah, and a small office in Paris.

Understanding Gaza

The crisis in Gaza predates the election of Hamas as shown by these selected pieces from the Journal of Palestine Studies:

Palestinian civilians flee from an Israeli white phophorus attack on a United Nations school which sheltered 1,600 people in Beit Lahia. Mohammed Abed, AFP/Getty Images.

Jennifer Lowenstein's “Notes from the Field: Return to the Ruin that is Gaza” (JPS 143);
Sara Roy's “Praying with their Eyes Closed: Reflections on the Disengagement from Gaza” (JPS 136);
Sara Roy's "The Gaza Strip: A Case of Economic De-Development" (JPS 65);
Lamis Andoni's "Searching for Answers: Gaza's Suicide Bombers" (JPS 104);
Darryl Li's “The Gaza Strip as Laboratory” (JPS 138);
Khaled Hroub's “A ‘New Hamas’ through Its New Documents” (JPS 140);
Geoffrey Aronson's “Issues Arising from the Implementation of Israel’s Disengagement from the Gaza Strip” (JPS 136);
And Part I of Mouin Rabbani's interview "Khalid Mishal: The Making of a Palestinian Islamic Leader" (JPS 147).

Click here to go to the JPS Subject Index to find more on Gaza . Browse our bookstore for works on Gaza.

For the latest information on the crisis in Gaza visit:

Institute for Middle East Understanding Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights ReliefWeb United Nations Relief and Works Agency

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In the new issue of JPS:

Read Barack Obama's campaign statements on the Arab-Israeli conflict, along with side-by-side comparisons of official Democratic and Republican party positions on Israel and Palestine. Also: Lynn Welchman explores the interplay of religious law, local custom, statutory regulations, and political rhetoric in two criminal cases in the West Bank and Gaza (read the full article here); Historian Jean-Pierre Filiu examines the career of Francois Mitterrand, France's longest-serving president and a lifelong supporter of Israel, who became a vocal advocate for Palestinian statehood; Yuval Ben-Bassat looks at how relationships developed between early Zionist colonies; and Randa Farah compares political leadership and mass mobilization in Palestinian and Sahrawi refugee camps.

New Release

Unprotected: Palestinians in Egypt since 1948
By Oroub El Abed, 253 pages

"Without a doubt, it is the seminal work on Palestinian refugees in Egypt." - Rex Brynen, professor of political science, McGill University; coordinator of Palestinian ResearchNet

The Institute's newest book examines the Palestinian refugee community in Egypt, about which very little has been written. While its primary focus is on coping strategies and life situations, the book also constitutes a broad portrait of this vulnerable and unprotected community, including its history, the evolution of Egypt's Palestine policies, and the regional and international contexts that shaped those policies. Read more.

The Jerusalem Quarterly

Issue 36 of the Jerusalem Quarterly focuses on family papers and diaries as sources for writing the history of Palestine. In this special issue edited by Issam Nasser: Beshara Doumani explores the extraordinary intensity of the "archive fever" spreading among Palestinian communities around the world seeking to preserve the social history of Palestine in the face of an uncertain future; and Saleh Abdel Jawad examines the effects of Palestinian emigration to the United States on the local society of the West Bank town of al-Bireh. Read this issue free online at JerusalemQuarterly.org.

Special Web Feature Commemorating the Nakba

The Institute for Palestine Studies presents a special on-line resource to commemorate the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe) of 1948. Click here to access incisive articles, analyses and memoirs, drawn from the Institute’s rich and unique archives as well as its flagship quarterly publication, The Journal of Palestine Studies. The page also provides detailed maps and chronologies illuminating the events leading up to and culminating in the establishment of the state of Israel and the beginning of the Palestinian tragedy.

Readers can download PDF versions of landmark articles, such as Walid Khalidi’s 1961 documentation of “Plan Dalet: the Master Plan for the Conquest of Palestine,” and rare excerpts from the memoirs of Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser focusing on the cataclysmic events of 1948. Scholars, journalists, policy makers and educators will find this on-line resource timely and useful.

Recent Publications

		Unprotected: Palestinians in Egypt Since 1948
		by: Oroub El-Abed
		The small and scattered Palestinian community in Egypt was formed mainly from the refugee waves coming into the country following the 1948 and 1967 Arab-Israeli wars. Unlike Palestinian refugees in th... Read more