Political Participation in Palestine Bisan Center for Research and Development and the Social and Economic Policies Monitor are pleased to invite you to the launch event of two studies regarding Political Participation in Palestine Monday 28-11-202210:30 AM Carmel Hotel- Ramallah
The Fisheries of the Southern Mediterranean, from Morocco to Turkey (1950-2020)
We are pleased to announce that the next Bisan Lecture webinar will take place on Wednesday, December 14th at 7pm Palestine time (6pm Central European Time, 12 noon US Estern time). We will have the pleasure to welcome Prof. Daniel Pauly (University of British Columbia) who will speak on Title: The Fisheries of the Southern Mediterranean, from Morocco to Turkey (1950-2020) You can register …
Prof. Daniel Pauly
We are pleased to announce that the next Bisan Lecture webinar will take place on Wednesday, December 14th at 7pm Palestine time (6pm Central European Time, 12 noon US Estern time). We will have the pleasure to welcome Prof. Daniel Pauly (University of British Columbia) who will speak on Title: The Fisheries of the Southern Mediterranean, from Morocco to Turkey (1950-2020) You can register …
Prof. Esther Duflo
On November 9th, Professor Esther Duflo (MIT, Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences in 2019) gave the third lecture of the 2022-2023 Bisan Lecture Series. In line with the current discussions at COP 27, Professor Duflo outlined the main issues associated with climate change. She stressed the lopsided inequalities involved, between nations as well as within nations, notably the 10/50 …
Social Experiments to Fight Poverty: From Research to Policy-Prof. Esther Duflo
We are pleased to announce that the next Bisan Lecture webinar will take place on Wednesday, November 9th at 6pm Palestine time (5pm Central European Time, 11 am US Eastern time) – ATTENTION unusual schedule. We will have the pleasure to welcome Prof. Esther Duflo (MIT, Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences in 2019) who will speak on Title: Social Experiments to Fight Poverty: From Research …
The first lecture of the 2022-2023 Bisan Lecture Series
On September 14-th, 2022, Salim Tamari (Editor of the Jerusalem Quarterly, Senior Fellow of the Institute of Palestine Studies, Professor of Sociology at Birzeit University) gave the first lecture of the 2022-2023 Bisan Lecture Series. Quoting Rashid Khalidi (the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University), Salim Tamari is today’s “preeminent Palestinian …
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Bisan Lecture Series – Nancy Kanwisher – Functional Imaging of the Human Brain
Prof. Nancy Kanwisher (MIT) Title: Functional Imaging of the Human Brain: A Window into the Architecture of the Mind Abstract: The last 20 years of brain imaging research has revealed the functional organization of the human brain in glorious detail. This work has identified a set of regions of the cortex, each of which is specifically …
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Prof. Nancy Kanwisher
Functional Imaging of the Human Brain: A Window into the Architecture of the Mind Prof. Nancy Kanwisher (MIT) Abstract: The last 20 years of brain imaging research has revealed the functional organization of the human brain in glorious detail. This work has identified a set of regions of the cortex, each of which is …
Six prominent Palestinian civil society organizations arbitrarily outlawed by Israeli government sent a letter to the Biden administration yesterday demanding action.
The letter, addressed to United States President Joe Biden, calls on him and his administration to condemn the latest Israeli government actions aimed at delegitimizing and criminalizing Palestinian human rights defenders and civil society organizations as well as to reject the Israeli government’s unsubstantiated allegations against the six Palestinian civil society organizations and demand Israeli …
#StandWithThe6: Joint Statement from Designated Palestinian Organizations Raided, Closed and Pillaged by Israeli Occupying Forces
In the early morning of 18 August 2022, Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) forcibly entered, raided, ransacked and damaged properties of six designated Palestinian civil society organizations: Al-Haq, Addameer, the Bisan Center for Research & Development, Defence for Children International-Palestine, the Union of Agricultural Workers Committees (UAWC), and the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees (UPWC). Armed military forces …