Institute for Palestine Studies
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The Institute for Palestine Studies (The IPS) is the oldest independent non-profit, public service, research institute in the Arab world, was established and incorporated in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1963 and has since served as a model for other such institutes in the region. Led by a Board of Trustees comprising some forty scholars, businessmen, and public figures representing almost all Arab countries, it is devoted to documentation and publication on Palestinian affairs and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
The IPS currently maintains four offices on three continents. The Beirut office, the IPS headquarters since its inception; the Washington, DC office, established in 1976; a small office in Paris, established in 1981; and the Ramallah office, established (originally as the Institute of Jerusalem Studies) in 1995 which moved to Jerusalem in the year 2000. The Beirut office also houses the IPS Information and Documentation Center and the Constantine Zurayk Library, the largest library in the Arab world (and one of the largest in the world) specializing in Palestinian Affairs, the Arab-Israeli conflict, Judaica, and Zionism.
Since its inception, IPS has published over 600 books, monographs, occasional papers, and documentary collections in English, Arabic, and French. It has co-publication agreements with Columbia University Press in New York and Oxford University Press in England, among others, and has co-published works with a number of universities and research centers in Palestine and various Arab countries. It also puts out four quarterlies: The Journal of Palestine Studies (co-published with University of California Press), since 1971 in Washington, DC; Majallat-al-Dirasat-al-Filastiniyah, since 1990 in Beirut; Jerusalem Quarterly, since 1998 in Ramallah; and Hawliyyat al-Quds, since 2003 in Ramallah.
IPS activities are financed by income from its endowment, contributions and gifts from donors, and sales of its publications. While the Board of Trustees, which meets once a year, oversees the IPS activities, administratively it is run by an Executive Committee composed of Board members assisted by a staff of about 50.
IPS books and other publications are available through the Beirut Office and can be ordered from all its offices and from bookstores and book distributors in Lebanon and other Arab countries. Both individuals and institutions can subscribe or purchase IPS publications online, through its website (www.palestine-studies.org)
, Bahrain
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is located at the Institutes's headquarters in Beirut. It is the largest in the Arab world specializing in Palestinian affairs, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and Judaica.
The Institute publishes four quarterly journals in English, French, and Arabic. These are independently edited and published from Washington
, Paris
, Jerusalem, and Beirut respectively. The journals are:
The Institute currently maintains offices in Beirut, Paris
, Washington
, and Ramallah
, each with its own full-time director.
The IPS currently maintains four offices on three continents. The Beirut office, the IPS headquarters since its inception; the Washington, DC office, established in 1976; a small office in Paris, established in 1981; and the Ramallah office, established (originally as the Institute of Jerusalem Studies) in 1995 which moved to Jerusalem in the year 2000. The Beirut office also houses the IPS Information and Documentation Center and the Constantine Zurayk Library, the largest library in the Arab world (and one of the largest in the world) specializing in Palestinian Affairs, the Arab-Israeli conflict, Judaica, and Zionism.
Since its inception, IPS has published over 600 books, monographs, occasional papers, and documentary collections in English, Arabic, and French. It has co-publication agreements with Columbia University Press in New York and Oxford University Press in England, among others, and has co-published works with a number of universities and research centers in Palestine and various Arab countries. It also puts out four quarterlies: The Journal of Palestine Studies (co-published with University of California Press), since 1971 in Washington, DC; Majallat-al-Dirasat-al-Filastiniyah, since 1990 in Beirut; Jerusalem Quarterly, since 1998 in Ramallah; and Hawliyyat al-Quds, since 2003 in Ramallah.
IPS activities are financed by income from its endowment, contributions and gifts from donors, and sales of its publications. While the Board of Trustees, which meets once a year, oversees the IPS activities, administratively it is run by an Executive Committee composed of Board members assisted by a staff of about 50.
IPS books and other publications are available through the Beirut Office and can be ordered from all its offices and from bookstores and book distributors in Lebanon and other Arab countries. Both individuals and institutions can subscribe or purchase IPS publications online, through its website (www.palestine-studies.org)
Board of trustees
The Institute is led by a Board of Trustees composed of Arab scholars, businessmen, and public figures. A volunteer executive committee, elected by the Board, manage the regular activities. The trustees come from most Arab countries, including AlgeriaAlgeria
Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...
, Bahrain
Bahrain
' , officially the Kingdom of Bahrain , is a small island state near the western shores of the Persian Gulf. It is ruled by the Al Khalifa royal family. The population in 2010 stood at 1,214,705, including 235,108 non-nationals. Formerly an emirate, Bahrain was declared a kingdom in 2002.Bahrain is...
, Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
, Jordan
Jordan
Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...
, Kuwait
Kuwait
The State of Kuwait is a sovereign Arab state situated in the north-east of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south at Khafji, and Iraq to the north at Basra. It lies on the north-western shore of the Persian Gulf. The name Kuwait is derived from the...
, Lebanon
Lebanon
Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...
, Qatar
Qatar
Qatar , also known as the State of Qatar or locally Dawlat Qaṭar, is a sovereign Arab state, located in the Middle East, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula. Its sole land border is with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its...
, Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...
, United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated as the UAE, or shortened to "the Emirates", is a state situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, and Saudi Arabia, and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iran.The UAE is a...
and Yemen
Yemen
The Republic of Yemen , commonly known as Yemen , is a country located in the Middle East, occupying the southwestern to southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the north, the Red Sea to the west, and Oman to the east....
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Present Board
- Salman Abbasi (Palestine)
- Maher Abughazaleh (Palestine)
- Faisal Alami (Palestine, Lebanon)
- Basel Amin Aql – Executive Committee Member (Palestine, Jordan)
- Issam Ashour (Palestine, Lebanon)
- Hanan AshrawiHanan AshrawiHanan Daoud Khalil Ashrawi is a Palestinian legislator, activist, and scholar. She was a protégé and later colleague and close friend of Edward Said. Ashrawi was an important leader during the First Intifada, served as the official spokesperson for the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East...
(Palestine) - Raymond W. Audi (Lebanon)
- Muhsin Al-Ayni (Yemen)
- Abdul Rahman Bin Saoud al-Thani (Qatar)
- Lakhdar BrahimiLakhdar BrahimiLakhdar Brahimi is a veteran United Nations envoy and advisor. He retired from his duties at the end of 2005. Brahimi is a member of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, the first global initiative to focus specifically on the link between exclusion, poverty and law...
(Algeria) - Mazen Dajani – Treasurer (Palestine, Jordan)
- Nadim Dimechkié (Lebanon)
- Sawsan Al-Fahoum Jafar (Palestine)
- Ali Fakhro (Bahrain)
- Anwar Gargash (UAE)
- Abdlatif Y. Al-Hamad (Kuwait)
- Khalil Hindi (Palestine)
- Adib Al-Jadir (Iraq)
- Taher Kanaan – Executive Committee Member (Palestine, Jordan)
- Mohammad Ali Khalidi (Jordan)
- Walid Khadduri (Iraq, Lebanon)
- Walid KhalidiWalid KhalidiWalid Khalidi is an Oxford University-educated Palestinian historian who has written extensively on the Palestinian exodus. He is General Secretary and co-founder of the Institute for Palestine Studies, established in Beirut in December 1963 as an independent research and publishing center...
, Secretary (Palestine, Lebanon) - Said T. Khoury – Honorary Chairman (Palestine, Lebanon)
- Samer S. Khoury (Palestine, Lebanon)
- Fadia Kiwan (Lebanon)
- Mohammad Al-Majzoub – Executive Committee Member (Lebanon)
- Camille Mansour, Executive Committee Member (Palestine)
- Jamil Matar (Egypt)
- Tarek MitriTarek MitriTarek Mitri is a Greek Orthodox Professor and Independent politician from Lebanon, he was born in 1950 and has played a significant role in advocating freedom of expression in Lebanon. Most recently, Mitri successfully pushed for lifting the ban on the film adaptation of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis...
, Executive Committee Member (Lebanon) - Fadi Moghaizel, Executive Committee Member (Lebanon)
- Adnan Mroueh (Lebanon)
- Issam Naaman (Lebanon)
- Hisham Nashabe, Chairman (Lebanon)
- Rami R. Nimr (Palestine, Lebanon)
- Nabil H. Qaddumi (Palestine, Kuwait)
- Abdul Muhsin Al-Qattan (Palestine, Kuwait)
- Suhail Sabbagh (Palestine, Lebanon)
- Riad T. Al-Sadik (Palestine, UAE)
- Mohammad J. Al-Sager (Kuwait)
- Hani Salaam (Lebanon)
- Nawaf SalamNawaf SalamNawaf Salam is a Lebanese diplomat, academic, and jurist. He is currently serving as Lebanon's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York.-Background and education:...
(Lebanon) - Leila ShahidLeila ShahidLeila Shahid She is the daughter of Serene Husseini Shahid and thus a member of the Al-Husayni clan. She is the great-great-granddaughter of the Baha'i prophet Baha'u'llah though she is not a Baha'i herself....
(Palestine) - Suha Shoman (Palestine, Jordan)
- Mazen Soueid (Lebanon)
- Abdul Hassan Zalzalah (Iraq)
- Huda Zurayk (Lebanon)
Previous Board of Trustee members
- Sami Alami (Palestine, Lebanon)
- Hasib SabbaghHasib SabbaghHasib Sabbagh, also spelled Hassib , came from a Palestinian Christian family in Safed in Palestine, although he was born in Tiberias...
(Palestine, Lebanon) - Nabih Amin Faris (Lebanon)
- Maurice GemayelMaurice GemayelMaurice Gemayel, was a Lebanese politician who was often a minister and Maronite MP for Metn, was a prominent figure for the Kataeb Party which was founded by his cousin, Pierre Gemayel. His positions were more moderate than many other members of his own party...
(Lebanon) - Saleh Masud Abu Yaseer (Libya)
- Wadad Cortas (Lebanon)
- Fuad Sarrouf (Lebanon)
- Sa'id Himadeh (Lebanon)
- Edmond Rabbath (Lebanon)
- Muhammad Mursi Ahmad (Egypt)
- Farid Saad (Jordan)
- Taher Radwan (Saudi Arabia)
- Ahmad Baha-El-Din (Egypt)
- As'ad Al-As'ad (Lebanon)
- Pierre Edde (Lebanon)
- Shams Ed-Din Wakil (Egypt)
- Constantine Zurayk (Lebanon)
- Burhan Dajani (Jordan)
- Charles HelouCharles HelouCharles Helou was President of Lebanon from 1964 to 1970.Born in Beirut, Helou was the scion of a powerful Maronite family from Baabda. He graduated with honours from St. Joseph's University in Beirut in 1929, and went on to complete a Law degree in 1934...
(Lebanon) - Hala Salam Maksoud (Lebanon)
- Zahia Kaddoura (Lebanon)
- Mohieddine Saber (Sudan)
- Adib Daoudy (Syria)
- Abdel-Aziz al-Saqr (Kuwait)
- Edmond Naim (Lebanon)
- 'Abdel-Wahhab 'Abdel-Wassi' (Saudi Arabia);
- Najla Abu Izzeddin (Lebanon)
- Mahmoud DarwishMahmoud DarwishMahmoud Darwish was a Palestinian poet and author who won numerous awards for his literary output and was regarded as the Palestinian national poet...
(Palestine)
Library
The Institute's libraryLibrary
In a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...
is located at the Institutes's headquarters in Beirut. It is the largest in the Arab world specializing in Palestinian affairs, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and Judaica.
The Institute publishes four quarterly journals in English, French, and Arabic. These are independently edited and published from Washington
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
, Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, Jerusalem, and Beirut respectively. The journals are:
- The Journal of Palestine StudiesJournal of Palestine StudiesThe Journal of Palestine Studies is an academic journal established in 1971. It is published and distributed by University of California Press on behalf of the Institute for Palestine Studies. The current editor is Rashid Khalidi of Columbia University....
, which was established in 1971. It is published and distributed by the University of California PressUniversity of California PressUniversity of California Press, also known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing. It was founded in 1893 to publish books and papers for the faculty of the University of California, established 25 years earlier in 1868...
on behalf of the institute. The current editor is Rashid KhalidiRashid KhalidiRashid Ismail Khalidi , born 1948, a Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East, is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, and director of the Middle East Institute of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs.-Family, education and...
of Columbia UniversityColumbia UniversityColumbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
. - The French quarterly, Revue d'études palestiniennes, which began publication in 1982, is independently edited and produced by The Institute for Palestine Studies - Paris. The Revue is printed and distributed by Editions de Minuit. (previous editor Samir KassirSamir KassirSamir Kassir was a Lebanese professor of history at Saint-Joseph University and journalist. Born to a Palestinian father and a Syrian mother, Kassir received his degree in philosophy and political philosophy in 1984, in 1990, Kassir earned his PhD in Modern History also from the University of...
) - The Arabic-language quarterly, Majallat al-Dirasat al-Filastiniyah, was founded in 1990. It is edited in London and Beirut and is simultaneously reprinted in RamallahRamallahRamallah is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank located 10 kilometers north of Jerusalem, adjacent to al-Bireh. It currently serves as the de facto administrative capital of the Palestinian National Authority...
in the West BankWest BankThe West Bank ) of the Jordan River is the landlocked geographical eastern part of the Palestinian territories located in Western Asia. To the west, north, and south, the West Bank shares borders with the state of Israel. To the east, across the Jordan River, lies the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan...
for distribution in the Palestinian TerritoriesPalestinian territoriesThe Palestinian territories comprise the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Since the Palestinian Declaration of Independence in 1988, the region is today recognized by three-quarters of the world's countries as the State of Palestine or simply Palestine, although this status is not recognized by the...
. - The Jerusalem Quarterly (JQ) (Arabic: Hawliyat al-Quds) was conceived in 1998 as the Jerusalem Quarterly File, and is published by the Institute of Jerusalem Studies (IJS), an affiliate of the Institute for Palestine Studies. The Jerusalem Quarterly publishes historical features and contemporary analysis of aspects of city life and reviews. The journal is available quarterly online, and in print copy through paid subscription.
The Institute currently maintains offices in Beirut, Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, Washington
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
, and Ramallah
Ramallah
Ramallah is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank located 10 kilometers north of Jerusalem, adjacent to al-Bireh. It currently serves as the de facto administrative capital of the Palestinian National Authority...
, each with its own full-time director.
See also
- List of Palestinian universities
- Education in the Palestinian territoriesEducation in the Palestinian territoriesEducation in the Palestinian territories refers to the educational system in Gaza and the West Bank administered by the Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education. Enrollment rates amongst Palestinians are relatively high by regional and global standards. This reflects the great values...