Why is a collective narrative important to the Palestinian liberation struggle? What challenges do the Palestinian people face in promoting their narrative, and who has legitimacy to promulgate it?

Al-Shabaka analysts Tamara Ben-Halim and Hazem Jamjoum will weigh in on these questions and more in this month’s Palestine Policy Lab, facilitated by Amjad Iraqi.

Join in on the discussion on October 18th!

Tamara Ben-Halim is the director and co-founder of Makan, a Palestinian-led human rights educational organisation. Tamara has worked in Arab civil society for 9 years and holds a first class MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics.

Hazem Jamjoum is a graduate student in Modern Middle East History at New York University. His writing has focused on political-economy approaches to Israeli colonialism and Palestinian elite formation, and critiques of partition-based conflict management "solutions."

Amjad Iraqi is an advocacy coordinator at Adalah - The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel. He is also a contributing editor at +972 Magazine, and serves as a consultant for several policy and human rights groups in Israel-Palestine.

About the Policy Lab Program: Al-Shabaka's Palestine Policy Lab is an online live-stream space, where audiences can engage directly with expert analysts from our nearly 200-member network as they craft policies and strategies related to Palestine. The labs are free and open for public participation, inviting viewers to join in on policy discussions.

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