Ahmad Azem

Ahmad Azem is the director of Palestine and Arabic Studies at Birzeit University.

Palestine | Aug 7, 2014

West Bank uprisings dampened by PA

The Palestinian Authority has maintained its stiff opposition to mass movements and protests, ensuring quiet on the West Bank front despite the war in Gaza.

An Israeli border police removes a Palestinian flag at the Israeli barrier fence during clashes with Palestinian protesters following the funeral of Palestinian Oday Jaber, whom medics said was killed by Israeli troops during Friday clashes at a protest against the Israeli offensive in Gaza, in the West Bank village of Rafat near Ramallah August 2, 2014. Israeli forces killed two Palestinians in clashes in the occupied West Bank on Friday, Palestinian medical officials said. The violence erupted when a few

Palestine | Dec 5, 2013

Palestinian activism evolves in Prawer protests

Nonpartisan Palestinian youths have taken the lead in nationwide protests against Israel's Prawer Plan, breaking away from traditional Palestinian political forces.

Members of the Bedouin community gesture during a protest outside a court in the southern city of Beersheba, calling to release people who were arrested last Saturday in protests against a government plan to force 40,000 Bedouins living in the southern Negev region to leave their villages, December 5, 2013. Hundreds of Bedouin Arabs and their supporters clashed with Israeli forces on Saturday in the protests, in which, according to an Israeli police spokesman, at least 28 people had been arrested. REUTERS/A

Palestine | Oct 29, 2013

Nationalist Slogans Fade From Palestinian Discourse

Despite the recent attacks on Israeli soldiers in the West Bank, many Palestinians are downplaying their connection to the resistance movement and avoiding nationalist rhetoric.

A Palestinian militant stands guard during an anti-Israeli rally organized by Islamic Jihad movement in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip October 24, 2013. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTX14MNO

Palestine | May 31, 2013

Kerry Plan Ignores Palestinian Economic Independence

The economic plan brought forward by US Secretary of State John Kerry still keeps the Palestinian economy dependent on Israel.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (C) is joined by Israeli President Shimon Peres (L) and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa at the King Hussein Convention Centre, at the Dead Sea May 26, 2013. REUTERS/Jim Young (JORDAN - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) - RTX101SB

Qatar | May 15, 2013

The Extent and Limits Of Qatar-Hamas Ties

Qatar and Hamas ties fluctuate between strategy and tactics.

Egyptian Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi addresses Muslims at Al-Azhar mosque during the weekly Friday prayer in Cairo on December 28, 2012. People demonstrated outside the Al-Azhar mosque in support of the Syrian people and against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad. AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD HAMS (Photo credit should read MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images)

Palestine | Apr 21, 2013

Do the US and Arab StatesSee Eye to Eye on Palestine?

The United States has failed to change its approach to the Middle East conflict, but Arab states are consolidating alliances with the divided Palestinian political establishment, writes Ahmad Azem.