{"id":4709,"date":"2007-11-05T00:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-01-02T23:15:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T21:15:57","slug":"epalestine-positive-side-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2007\/11\/epalestine-positive-side-of\/","title":{"rendered":"The positive side of Palestine…This Week in Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear friends,  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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The majority of corporate media waste no effort in showing the daily death and destruction of Palestine and Palestinians, that is, if they cover us at all.  However, daily life and the struggle for freedom are much more colorful than the never ending conflict worthy of coverage.  Many of you ask why I’m not showing the positive side of Palestine in my posts.  Well, here it is in a sustainable way.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Say hello to This Week in Palestine<\/em><\/strong>.  This is the premier English magazine published in Palestine, by Palestinians.  This publication is, by design, focused on the positive, as much as possible.  It is consistently upbeat and looking at the side of Palestine very few see, unless, of course, you have visited us personally.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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This Week in Palestine<\/em><\/strong>‘s latest edition is on the <\/span><\/font> Elderly<\/span><\/font> , a topic I take personal interest in, given our history is stored in the elderly and we should pay much more attention to their lives, past, present and future.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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The latest edition also carries my review of Jerusalem…The East Side Story<\/u><\/em>:<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.thisweekinpalestine.com\/details.php?id=2307&ed=147&edid=147<\/u> <\/span> <\/font> <\/a>  (w\/pictures)<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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This entire publication, which is published every month (not weekly), is now available for download at <\/span> <\/font> http:\/\/www.thisweekinpalestine.com<\/u> <\/span> <\/font> <\/a>  in PDF format (see left side of homepage). <\/span><\/font> I strongly recommend it.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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To support this worthy publication, please subscribe to the hardcopy edition at <\/span> <\/font> http:\/\/www.palestineonlinestore.com\/books\/magTWIP.html<\/u> <\/span> <\/font> <\/a> .  I promise you will not be sorry you did.  While you are at this site, drop in the cart a bottle of our great olive oil too.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Recognizing local success,<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Sam<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Dear friends,  The majority of corporate media waste no effort in showing the daily death and destruction of Palestine and Palestinians, that is, if they cover us at all.  However, daily life and the struggle for freedom are much more colorful than the never ending conflict worthy of coverage.  Many of you ask why I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-4709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"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 was instrumental 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\/4709","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=4709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9839,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions\/9839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4709"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}