{"id":4955,"date":"2006-05-15T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-29T11:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T08:44:09","slug":"epalestine-introducing-institute-for_15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2006\/05\/epalestine-introducing-institute-for_15\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the Institute for Middle East Understanding (Links Corrected)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Dear Friends,\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">I wanted to make you aware of the Institute for Middle East Understanding at <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imeu.net\/\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">http:\/\/www.imeu.net\/<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">.\u00a0 The IMEU works with journalists on their stories about Palestine and the Palestinians.\u00a0 In the short time the IMEU has been around, they&#8217;ve placed numerous commentaries in the mainstream media and connected journalists with good Palestinian spokespeople for their publications and shows.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Since May 3, they&#8217;ve been running a campaign to bring awareness to the Nakba. Each day, they&#8217;ve featured profiles of survivors, statistics, historical information and more.\u00a0 For the 58th anniversary on May 15th, there is a powerful roundtable featuring seven prominent Palestinians with their thoughts on the Nakba(<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">http:\/\/www.imeu.net\/news\/article001375.shtml<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">), along with the Nakba material from the past two weeks.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Take a look at <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imeu.net\/\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">http:\/\/www.imeu.net\/<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"> . If you know journalists who could use assistance with their stories on Palestine and the Palestinians, please feel free to have them contact the IMEU at info@imeu.net or 510-451-2600.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Spreading the word, <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Sam<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Everything about this list:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">http:\/\/lists.riseup.net\/www\/info\/epalestine<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">To unsubscribe, send mail to:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">epalestine-unsubscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">To subscribe, send mail to:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">epalestine-subscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends,\u00a0\u00a0 I wanted to make you aware of the Institute for Middle East Understanding at http:\/\/www.imeu.net\/.\u00a0 The IMEU works with journalists on their stories about Palestine and the Palestinians.\u00a0 In the short time the IMEU has been around, they&#8217;ve placed numerous commentaries in the mainstream media and connected journalists with good Palestinian spokespeople for [&hellip;]<\/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-4955","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":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sam Bahour<\/strong> is a Palestinian-American business consultant, writer, and commentator based in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He is the principal of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aim.ps\/\">Applied Information Management (AIM)<\/a>, a consultancy specializing in business development and startup advisory services.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justvision.org\/\">Just Vision<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mas.ps\">The Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS)<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bahour is the co-editor of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Homeland-Oral-Histories-Palestine-Palestinians\/dp\/1566561329\/ref=la_B00HBW71SO_1_1\">Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993) and was profiled in the bestselling anthology <em><a href=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2017\/06\/epalestine-kingdom-of-olives-and-ash\/\">Kingdom of Olives and Ash<\/a><\/em>, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, in a chapter authored by Chabon titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/lithub.com\/the-tallest-man-in-ramallah\/\">The 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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He tweets at <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SamBahour\">@SamBahour<\/a>, blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epalestine.ps\">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\/4955","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=4955"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10074,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955\/revisions\/10074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4955"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}