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Board of Advisors Tida's Board of Advisors is composed of distinguished academics, writers and community leaders from Europe, the Middle East and America. The Boards role is to approve and advise Tidas scholarly work and to protect the independence of the Institution.
Hussam Ghoti Scientific Advisor
Hussam Ghoti has over 13 years experience as a haematologist and is currently the Senior Haematologist at the Wolfson Centre. Husam was trained in Germany at the Freie Universität, Berlin and is fluent in Arabic, German and English. Husam is a member of numerous societies including the German Society of Medicine. Husam is a regular contributor at world medical congresses’ and most recently presented at the World Congress in Rome. Husam publishes regularly in international journals such as the Lancet; in 2005, 2006 and 2008 he received the Dr Durian Paul award for outstanding research.
Rashid Khalidi
Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies, received his BA from Yale in 1970, and his D.Phil. from Oxford in 1974. He is editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies, and was President of the Middle East Studies Association, and an advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace negotiations from October 1991 until June 1993. He is renowned author of many books including, Sowing Crisis: American Dominance and the Cold War in the Middle East (2009); The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (2006); Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East (2004); Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (1996); Under Siege: PLO Decision-Making During the 1982 War (1986).
Salim Tamari
Salim Tamari is the director of the Institute for Jerusalem studies; a branch of the Beirut based Institute of Palestine Studies that publishes the Jerusalem Quarterly. Salim Tamari is as well an Associate Professor of Sociology at Birzeit University. Professor Tamari has published widely and produced numerous studies dealing with the sociology and development of Palestinian society. His works include Palestinian Refugee Negotiation: From Madrid to Oslo II (1996) and Jerusalem 1948 (1999).
Sara Roy
Sara Roy is a senior researcher scholar at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. Sara has many years of experience in the West Bank and Gaza, and is the
author
of
The
Gaza
Strip
Survey (1986); The
Gaza
Strip:
The
Political
Economy
of
De‐development (1995,
2001),
and Between
Extremism
and
Civism:
Political
Islam
in
Palestine (Princeton
University
Press,
2010). Sara is regarded by many as a leading authority on social and economic conditions in the Gaza Strip.
Yezid Sayigh
Yezid Sayigh, PhD, is Professor of Middle East Studies in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Middle East Studies, Harvard University. From 1994 to 2003 he was Assistant Director of Studies at the Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge, and additionally directed the Middle East programme at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London (1998-2003). In 1990-1994 he was an advisor and negotiator in the Palestinian delegation to the peace talks with Israel, and headed the Palestinian delegation to the Multilateral Working Group on Regional Security and Arms Control. Since 1999 he has provided policy and technical consultancy on the permanent status peace talks and on Palestinian reform. Previously he was a Research Fellow at St Antony’s College Oxford (1990-1994).
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
“The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation is a political foundation affiliated with the German left party (DIE LINKE). The office in Ramallah is responsible for cooperation in Palestine, Jordan, and Egypt. "
www.rosaluxemburg.ps
Heinrich Boll Foundation
The Heinrich Böll Foundation is part of the Green political movement that has developed worldwide as a response to the traditional politics of socialism, liberalism, and conservatism.
www.boell.de
Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst
The German Development Service, formed in 1963, is one of the leading European development services for personnel cooperation. Together with its local partners DED works towards reducing poverty, achieving self-determined sustainable development and securing natural resources.
www.ded.de |