{"id":5063,"date":"2005-12-23T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-23T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-01-10T15:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T13:32:56","slug":"epalestine-merry-christmas-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2005\/12\/epalestine-merry-christmas-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas from Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mobile-post\">The following section of this message contains a file attachment<br \/>\nprepared for transmission using the Internet MIME message format.<br \/>\nIf you are using Pegasus Mail, or any other MIME-compliant system,<br \/>\nyou should be able to save it or view it from within your mailer.<br \/>\nIf you cannot, please ask your system administrator for assistance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mobile-post\">&#8212;- File information &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\nFile: Sand L-Holiday Card-2005.jpg<br \/>\nDate: 23 Dec 2005, 9:01<br \/>\nSize: 44211 bytes.<br \/>\nType: JPEG-image<\/p>\n<p class=\"mobile-post\">The following section of this message contains a file attachment<br \/>\nprepared for transmission using the Internet MIME message format.<br \/>\nIf you are using Pegasus Mail, or any other MIME-compliant system,<br \/>\nyou should be able to save it or view it from within your mailer.<br \/>\nIf you cannot, please ask your system administrator for assistance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mobile-post\">&#8212;- File information &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\nFile: MerryChristmas.gif<br \/>\nDate: 22 Dec 2005, 23:17<br \/>\nSize: 52570 bytes.<br \/>\nType: GIF-image<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Dear friends,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">I pass my warm personal holiday greetings along with two items:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">1.\u00a0 A cartoon on Bethlehem and the 3 wise men that speaks volumes.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">2.\u00a0 A holiday greeting message from two dear Quaker friends of mine,\u00a0\u00a0 Staughton and Alice Lynd.\u00a0 Together we co-edited <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Homeland-Oral-Histories-Palestine-Palestinians\/dp\/1566561337\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> <u>Homeland &#8211; Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians<\/u><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Happy New Year,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Sam\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><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\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Everything about this list:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">http:\/\/lists.riseup.net\/www\/info\/epalestine<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">To unsubscribe, send mail to:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">epalestine-unsubscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">To subscribe, send mail to:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">epalestine-subscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following section of this message contains a file attachment prepared for transmission using the Internet MIME message format. 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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\/5063","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=5063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6236,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5063\/revisions\/6236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5063"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=5063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}