{"id":3737,"date":"2016-09-29T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-01-08T19:58:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T17:58:18","slug":"epalestine-twip-ghost-of-palestines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2016\/09\/epalestine-twip-ghost-of-palestines\/","title":{"rendered":"TWIP: The Ghost of Palestine&#8217;s Diaspora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">This Week in Palestine<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><strong>The Ghost of Palestine&#8217;s Diaspora<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Sam Bahour<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epalestine.ps\/The-Ghost-of-Palestines-Diaspora-%28TWIP%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/TWIP-the-ghost-of-palestines-diaspora\" height=\"232\" src=\"https:\/\/ePalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Clipboard-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-3738\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;BEWARE! Palestine has a hidden weapon of mass development: Its diaspora community. There is only one slight problem. We are unable to locate it.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Download PDF of article:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/The-Ghost-of-Palestines-Diaspora-10-2016-PDF\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/epalestine.ps\/The-Ghost-of-Palestines-Diaspora-%28TWIP%29.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#Palestine #PalestineDiaspora<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Everything about this list:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/lists.riseup.net\/www\/info\/epalestine<\/p>\n<p>To subscribe, send mail to:<\/p>\n<p>epalestine-subscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/p>\n<p>To unsubscribe, send mail to:<\/p>\n<p>epalestine-unsubscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Week in Palestine The Ghost of Palestine&#8217;s Diaspora By Sam Bahour &#8220;BEWARE! Palestine has a hidden weapon of mass development: Its diaspora community. There is only one slight problem. We are unable to locate it.&#8221; Download PDF of article: http:\/\/epalestine.ps\/The-Ghost-of-Palestines-Diaspora-%28TWIP%29.pdf #Palestine #PalestineDiaspora _____________________________________ Everything about this list: http:\/\/lists.riseup.net\/www\/info\/epalestine To subscribe, send mail to: epalestine-subscribe@lists.riseup.net [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[942],"tags":[171,40,158,450],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-3737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sams-writings","tag-diaspora","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-occupied-territories","tag-twip"],"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 (\u0633\u0627\u0645 \u0628\u062d\u0648\u0631) resides in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He does business consulting as <a href=\"https:\/\/aim.ps\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Applied Information Management<\/a> (AIM), specializing in business development with a niche focus on the information technology sector and start-ups.\r\n\r\nBahour was instrumental in the establishment of two publicly traded firms: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He is Co-founder &amp; Emeritus Member of <a href=\"http:\/\/a4vpe.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy<\/a> (A4VPE) and until recently served as an independent Director at the Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. and a board member at <a href=\"https:\/\/justvision.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Just Vision<\/a>.\r\n\r\nHe writes frequently on Palestinian affairs and has been widely published in leading outlets. He is co-editor of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/1994\/10\/homeland-oral-histories-of-palestine-and-palestinians-book-recommended\" rel=\"noopener\">HOMELAND: Oral History of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993), tweets at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamBahour\" rel=\"noopener\">@SamBahour<\/a>, and blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epalestine.ps\/\" rel=\"noopener\">epalestine.ps.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737","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=3737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6099,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737\/revisions\/6099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3737"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}