{"id":3554,"date":"2020-04-12T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-14T18:51:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T16:51:01","slug":"a-history-of-money-in-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2020\/04\/a-history-of-money-in-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"A History of Money in Palestine: From the 1900s to the Present"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAs it is said, “Follow the money…”<\/p>\n

Several years ago my dear friend Dr. Sreemati Mitter was back in Palestine for a visit. She shared with me a hardcopy of her Harvard dissertation which I started to read but was unable to finish at the time. Thanks to the COVID-19 lockdown, I have been able to finish reading it. An absolute must-read if you are interested in Palestine and what happened to it. <\/span><\/p>\n


\n The dissertation is titled “A History of Money in Palestine: From the 1900s to the Present”. At face value, it is a history of the banking sector in Historic Palestine, but in reality, it is a deep, historic, and well-documented analysis of Palestine’s political economy, legal and economic resistance and resilience.<\/span><\/p>\n


\n Today, Dr. Sreemati Mitter is the Kutayba Alghanim Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History and International and Public Affairs at Brown University. She is transforming her dissertation into a book. Her profile is at https:\/\/www.brown.edu\/academ\u2026\/history\/people\/sreemati-mitter<\/a><\/p>\n

Source and for a copy of the dissertation: http:\/\/nrs.harvard.edu\/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12269876<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As it is said, “Follow the money…” Several years ago my dear friend Dr. Sreemati Mitter was back in Palestine for a visit. She shared with me a hardcopy of her Harvard dissertation which I started to read but was unable to finish at the time. Thanks to the COVID-19 lockdown, I have been able […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[96,249,1149,279,179],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-3554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-96","tag-banks","tag-british-mandate-for-palestine-1922-1948","tag-money","tag-palestinian-refugees"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"

Sam Bahour<\/strong> is a Palestinian-American business consultant, writer, and commentator based in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He is the principal of Applied Information Management (AIM)<\/a>, a consultancy specializing in business development and startup advisory services.<\/p>\r\n

Bahour played a foundational role in establishing two of Palestine\u2019s publicly traded companies: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He co-founded Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy (A4VPE), of which he is now an emeritus member, and served as an independent director on the board of Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. from 2004 to 2025. He currently serves on the board of Just Vision<\/a> and The Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS)<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

He frequently gives talks to delegations visiting Palestine on the subjects of Palestine\u2019s political economy, Palestinian Politics 101, and a general orientation to the state of affairs under Israeli military occupation.<\/p>\r\n

A prolific writer on Palestinian affairs, Bahour has been published in major international outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, Haaretz, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera America, Le Monde diplomatique, Al-Monitor, +972 Magazine, The Hill, and Arab News. He has appeared as a commentator on NPR, CNN, BBC, and other broadcast media.<\/p>\r\n

Bahour is the co-editor of Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993) and was profiled in the bestselling anthology Kingdom of Olives and Ash<\/a><\/em>, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, in a chapter authored by Chabon titled \u201cThe Tallest Man in Ramallah<\/a>.\u201d He holds an Associate\u2019s and Bachelor\u2019s degree in Computer Technology from Youngstown State University, and a Kellogg-Recanati International Executive MBA \u2014 a joint program of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Recanati Business School at Tel Aviv University.<\/p>\r\n

He tweets at @SamBahour<\/a>, blogs at www.epalestine.ps<\/a>, and may be reached at sbahour[AT]gmail[DOT]com.<\/p>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3554"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}