Nabil Amr

The Palestinians’ 100-day battle, which started with the decree calling for holding elections and ended with their postponement, embodied a fact that Palestinians do not like; the country and its people are governed by decree, not institutions that spring the ballot box. Since their revolution…

So far, the Palestinian electorate in Gaza and the West Bank has reached one million and 900,000, and that number will most probably rise to three million by the time the elections are held in May. The high number of electors has worried the Palestinian factions, including the two main sides,…

Putting aside all the vaunting and boasting about Reema Dodin’s ascension to a top-level position at the center of global power- the White House- although she deserves the praise, her appointment stirred an extremely vital, even pressing, issue: How do Arabs in the US cope and how to they deal with…

Ballots with Biden’s name on them would have filled the boxes if some had been placed in Ramallah, provided that Palestinian Authority officials are the electorate. On the popular level, on the other hand, celebrations were widespread, but because Donald Trump lost his seat at the Oval Office…

Let us inject ourselves with a magic serum that makes us imagine the UN-sponsored border demarcation negotiations between Lebanon and "the Zionist enemy" will surely be successful. Since imagining compels further imagination, this success implies Lebanon is going from one situation to another… …

Rulers and leaders are most critically tested when their ability to weigh matters out and make the right decisions is elucidated, when the stormy winds blow in their way or threaten their people, or when their vital area and their wider surroundings are struck by significant events, like war and…

In 1976, the Israeli government decided to make a political move that carried a degree of risk when it allowed and encouraged conducting local elections. They reckoned that it could produce leadership alternatives that would limit the Palestine Liberation Organization's influence and compromise the…

There is consensus over rejecting annexation in principle, regardless of its scope; as for the means employed to resist it, they diverge and will remain so as long as Fatah calls the shots in the West Bank while Hamas makes the decisions in Gaza. The divergence was apparent in the official…