In June 2007 civil war broke out in the Gaza Strip between two rival Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah. Western peace efforts in the region always focused o

Throughout the Arab world, Islamist political movements are joining the electoral process. This change alarms some observers and excites other. In recent years,

How did two national movements—which both share the same national ethos based on territorial and human elements and the same history—fail to reach an agreem

This book finds and explores a gender gap in political support in the Occupied Palestinian Territories whereby more women than men support Hamas, and more men t

"This report evaluates patterns of arrest and detention conditions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, 25 years after the Oslo Accords granted Palestinians a degre