Different Yet Similar: Governance in the West Bank and Gaza

Submitted by andrewr on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 1:35pm
Date: 
Friday, March 19, 2010 - 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Location : 
DC

The Palestine Center invites you to a briefing

"Different yet Similar: Governance in the West Bank and Gaza"

with

Dr. Yezid Sayigh
Professor of Middle East Studies, King's College London

and

Dr. Khaled Hroub
Director, Cambridge Arab Media Project (CAMP), University of Cambridge

Friday, 19 March 2010
12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
The Palestine Center
2425 Virginia Avenue, NW | Washington, DC 20037

How have two distinct systems of government evolved in the West Bank and Gaza? What similarities and differences are there between the two? How have they made institutional improvements and has this effected the balance between security and liberty? How sustainable and vulnerable are these state-like systems given their significant dependence on external capital? Join us for a discussion on these questions and more.

Yezid Sayigh is Professor of Middle East Studies in the Department of War Studies at King's College London. He is currently on leave as a Visiting Scholar at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University. He was an adviser and negotiator in the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks in 1991-1994, and has provided consultancy assistance on Palestinian Authority reform and on the Palestinian-Israeli 'permanent status' negotiations since 1998. He is the author of Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993, and most recently of Fixing Broken Windows: Security Sector Reform in Palestine, Lebanon, and Yemen, Carnegie Paper, October 2009.

Khaled Hroub is the Director of the Cambridge Arab Media Project (CAMP) in association with the Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge where he also teaches contemporary Middle East politics and history; author of Hamas: A Beginner's Guide (2006) and Hamas: Political Thought and Practice (2000).

This briefing is free and open to the public. A light lunch will be served to registered guests at 12:30 p.m. The briefing and question/answer period will be from 1:00-2:00 p.m. Registration is required. Unregistered guests will not be admitted. To register, click here or call (202) 338-1958 ext.11 by noon Thursday, March 18 2010.

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