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Institute for Middle East Understanding

Index Institute for Middle East Understanding

Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) is a 501(c)(3) pro-Palestinian non-profit organisation, not aligned to any political or government organisation. [1]

37 relations: Avigdor Lieberman, Bani Na'im, Burham, Ramallah, Cerebral palsy, Christianity by country, Commentary on Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, Corpus separatum (Jerusalem), Diana Buttu, Gaza City, Hebron glass, Hummus, Ismail Shammout, Jackie Salloum, Jifna, Kanafeh, Khaled Nazzal, Lisa Suhair Majaj, List of Arab Americans, List of universities and colleges in the State of Palestine, Maysoon Zayid, Media coverage of the Arab–Israeli conflict, Michel Shehadeh, Museum on the Seam, Nablus, Nabulsi soap, Naseer Aruri, Nida Sinnokrot, Occupation 101, Olive wood carving in Palestine, Palestinian cuisine, Palestinian handicrafts, Palestinians, Remi Kanazi, Shuja'iyya, Soap, State of Palestine, Tuqan clan.

Avigdor Lieberman

Avigdor Lieberman (אביגדור ליברמן,,; born Evet Lvovich Liberman, Эве́т Льво́вич Ли́берман, 5 July 1958) is a Soviet-born Israeli politician who serves as the Defense Minister of Israel.

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Bani Na'im

Bani Na'im (بني نعيم, Banî Na‘îm) is a Palestinian town in the southern West Bank located east of Hebron in the Hebron Governorate.

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Burham, Ramallah

Burham (بُرهام) is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate located twelve kilometers north of Ramallah.

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Cerebral palsy

Cerebral palsy (CP) is a group of permanent movement disorders that appear in early childhood.

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Christianity by country

 As of the year 2015, Christianity has more than 2.3 billion adherents, out of about 7.5 billion people.

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Commentary on Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid

This article attempts to summarize and illustrate selected notable representative critical reaction to and commentary on the book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006) by former president Jimmy Carter, which has been highly controversial.

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Corpus separatum (Jerusalem)

Corpus separatum (Latin for "separated body") is a term used to describe the Jerusalem area in the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.

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Diana Buttu

Diana Buttu is a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and a former spokesperson for the Palestine Liberation Organization.

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Gaza City

Gaza (The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998),, p. 761 "Gaza Strip /'gɑːzə/ a strip of territory in Palestine, on the SE Mediterranean coast including the town of Gaza...". غزة,; Ancient Ġāzā), also referred to as Gaza City, is a Palestinian city in the Gaza Strip, with a population of 515,556, making it the largest city in the State of Palestine.

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Hebron glass

Hebron Glass (زجاج الخليل, zajaj al-Khalili) refers to glass produced in Hebron as part of a flourishing art industry established in the city during Roman rule in Palestine.

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Hummus

Hummus (or; حُمُّص, full Arabic name: hummus bi tahini حمص بالطحينة) is a Levantine dip or spread made from cooked, mashed chickpeas or other beans, blended with tahini, olive oil, lemon juice, salt and garlic.

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Ismail Shammout

Ismail Shammout (1930 – 2006) was a Palestinian artist and art historian.

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Jackie Salloum

Jackie Reem Salloum is an American-born filmmaker and artist of Palestinian and Syrian descent.

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Jifna

Jifna (جفنا, Jifnâ) is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the central West Bank, located north of Ramallah and north of Jerusalem.

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Kanafeh

Kanafah (كُنافة,, dialectal) is a traditional Palestinian dessert made with cheese pastry soaked in sweet, sugar-based syrup.

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Khaled Nazzal

Khaled Nazzal was the central committee secretary of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and a militant leader for the Palestinian Liberation Organisation.

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Lisa Suhair Majaj

Lisa Suhair Majaj (born 1960) is a Palestinian-American poet and scholar.

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List of Arab Americans

This is a list of Arab Americans.

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List of universities and colleges in the State of Palestine

This is a list of universities and colleges in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

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Maysoon Zayid

Maysoon Zayid (ميسون زايد) is an American actress and comedian.

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Media coverage of the Arab–Israeli conflict

Media coverage of the Arab–Israeli conflict by journalists in international news media has been said to be biased by both sides and independent observers.

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Michel Shehadeh

Michel Shehadeh born in 1956, in Amman, Jordan), to a Palestinian Christians family, is the Palestinian-American executive director of the Arab Film Festival and the former Western Regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (1996-2003). The Palestinian raised Shehadeh relocated to the United States for college in 1975. In 1987, he became the target of investigation by the US Government as a suspected abettor of terrorists, one of the media-dubbed "Los Angeles Eight", but Shehadeh and the other seven individuals were cleared of charges in 2007. Michel Shehadeh holds a BA in Journalism and a Masters in Public Policy Administration from California State University, Long Beach.

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Museum on the Seam

The Museum on the Seam is a socio-political contemporary art museum in Jerusalem, Israel.

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Nablus

Nablus (نابلس, שכם, Biblical Shechem ISO 259-3 Škem, Νεάπολις Νeapolis) is a city in the northern West Bank, approximately north of Jerusalem, (approximately by road), with a population of 126,132.

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Nabulsi soap

Nabulsi soap (صابون نابلسي, ṣābūn Nābulsi) is a type of castile soap produced only in Nablus in the West Bank, Palestine.

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Naseer Aruri

Naseer H. Aruri (نصير عاروري, 7 January 1934 – 10 February 2015) was an American scholar-activist and expert on Middle East politics, U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and human rights.

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Nida Sinnokrot

Nida Sinnokrot (1971) is a Palestinian-American artist, focusing on installation art, and filmmaker.

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Occupation 101

Occupation 101: Voice of the Silenced Majority is a 2006 documentary film on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict directed by Sufyan Omeish and Abdallah Omeish, and narrated by Alison Weir, founder of If Americans Knew.

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Olive wood carving in Palestine

Olive wood carving is an ancient tradition in Palestine that continues to the present day.

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Palestinian cuisine

Palestinian cuisine consists of foods from or commonly eaten by Palestinians—which includes those living in Palestine, Jordan, refugee camps in nearby countries as well as by the Palestinian diaspora.

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Palestinian handicrafts

Palestinian handicrafts are handicrafts produced by Palestinian people.

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Palestinians

The Palestinian people (الشعب الفلسطيني, ash-sha‘b al-Filasṭīnī), also referred to as Palestinians (الفلسطينيون, al-Filasṭīniyyūn, פָלַסְטִינִים) or Palestinian Arabs (العربي الفلسطيني, al-'arabi il-filastini), are an ethnonational group comprising the modern descendants of the peoples who have lived in Palestine over the centuries, including Jews and Samaritans, and who today are largely culturally and linguistically Arab.

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Remi Kanazi

Remi Kanazi (born 1981) is a Palestinian-American performance poet, writer and organizer based in New York City.

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Shuja'iyya

Shuja'iyya (الشجاعية also Shejaiya, Shijaiyeh, Shujayya, Shuja'ia, Shuja'iya) is a neighborhood district of the Palestinian city of Gaza east of the city center, its nucleus situated on a hill, located across the main Salah al-Din Road that runs north-south throughout the Gaza Strip.

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Soap

Soap is the term for a salt of a fatty acid or for a variety of cleansing and lubricating products produced from such a substance.

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State of Palestine

Palestine (فلسطين), officially the State of Palestine (دولة فلسطين), is a ''de jure'' sovereign state in the Middle East claiming the West Bank (bordering Israel and Jordan) and Gaza Strip (bordering Israel and Egypt) with East Jerusalem as the designated capital, although its administrative center is currently located in Ramallah.

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Tuqan clan

The Tuqan clan (طوقان, also spelled Toukan, Touqan, Tukan and Tokan) is a prominent Palestinian and Jordanian political and business family.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Middle_East_Understanding

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