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Welcome to the Arab Middle East Office of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung

Introduction

Welcome to the website of the Arab Middle East Office (AMEO) of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung in Ramallah. We hope to enhance our service to provide you with interesting and necessary information around our work in the occupied Palestinian territory, Jordan and Egypt.
The Heinrich Böll Stiftung is part of the Green political movement that has developed worldwide as a response to the traditional politics of socialism, liberalism, and conservatism. Our main tenets are: democracy, ecology and international politics.
The AMEO is responsible for projects and programs in Palestine, Egypt, and Jordan. Other offices in the region include the Israel office in Tel Aviv and the Middle East Office in Beirut. Locally, the Foundation works in the following main program areas:

Democratic participation and gender democracy
Foreign policy and policy analysis
Environmental justice and climate politics

Ecology

Focusing on Climate Change

April 8, 2012 - Over the last months, the Heinrich Böll Stiftung Ramallah, in cooperation with the Palestinian Environmental Quality Authority (EQA) and the Goethe Institut Ramallah, has been conducting a series of workshops focusing on “Climate Change and its Impact on Palestine”.

POLICY PAPER

The Green Economy – The New Magic Bullet? by Barbara Unmüßig, co-president of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung

- In view of the upcoming Rio+20 conference in Brazil, Barbara Unmüßig, co-president of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung, published a policy paper focusing on the term “Green Economy”. First published in German in the magazine of the United Nations Association of Germany (DGVN), the article discusses the definitions of “Green Economy” and “Green Growth” put forward by UNEP and OECD in 2011 and places them into the context of previous concepts like sustainable development. more»

MA’AN Development Center

Keeping Green: Raising Awareness on the Palestinian Environment

- MA’AN Development Center, who has been a partner of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung Ramallah for many years, is providing regular and up-to-date information about environmental and agricultural issues, in addition to conducting awareness raising activities which provide the impetus for discussion and debate.

7iber

Once Upon a Water in Jordan

- To raise awareness about water issues in Jordan, 7iber has conducted the project “Once Upon a Water”, collecting stories of people and communities throughout the country that tell about vanishing water resources. more»

International Politics

West Bank visit by German MPs Jürgen Trittin and Kerstin Müller

March 20, 2012 - The Chairman of the Green’s parliamentary group, Jürgen Trittin, and the Green’s parliamentary spokesperson on foreign affairs, Kerstin Müller, visited the Palestinian Territories between March 12 and March 15, 2012. HBS Ramallah organized various meetings with Palestinian officials and civil society representatives. more»

Palestinian Delegation on Reconciliation

“European support for Palestinian reconciliation needed”

- March 13, 2012 - From February 27 to March 2nd the Heinrich Böll Stiftung in Ramallah co-sponsored a delegation of Palestinian experts to Berlin and Brussels to discuss latest developments in the Palestinian reconciliation process
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Raji Sourani in Berlin

End Israeli Closure of Gaza Strip Now!!

- The Heinrich Böll Stiftung in Ramallah invited Raji Sourani, head of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), to Germany. During the trip he briefed officials, NGO activists and politicians from all parties represented in the German Parliament about the current situation in Palestine and the Gaza strip more»

Article by Nadia Al - Sakkaf/ Chief Editor of the Yemen Times

Yemen’s revolution: The lack of public reasoning

- The sound of heart beats was deafening in Sanaa’s 20th street when protestors moved in the demonstration’s forefront. Around 15 snipers were positioned on rooftops on two sides of Dairi street intersection with 20th street. Protestors planned on Friday, March 18th, to expand the sit-in area and to erect new tents at the intersection.

An account of the people’s revolt in Yemen prior to the departure of Ali Saleh by Nadia Al-Sakkaf/ Chief Editor of the Yemen Times......

Comment - Effects of the Arab Spring - by Joachim Paul

- The international magazine D+Z Development and Cooperation published a comment on the effects of the Arab Spring on the Palestinian reconciliation deal by Joachim Paul, the Director of the Arab Middle East Office of the Heinrich Boell Foundation. for the full text please press here.

Joachim Paul in a conversation with Tobias Armbrüster

Director of Heinrich Böll Foundation in Ramallah advocates cooperation with Palestinians

- May 12, 2011 - Joachim Paul, Director of Heinrich Boell Foundation in Ramallah, says, he cannot understand the skeptical approach of the Federal government to the reconciliation of Fatah and Hamas. The new situation demands the exploration of possibilities for constructive cooperation. Joachim Paul, Director of Heinrich-Böll-Foundation in Ramallah in a conversation with Tobias Armbrüster; listen to the interview (in German) more»

Print and Online Publication

Perspectives #2 May 2011, Special Issue: People's Power - The Arab World in Revolt

- Perspectives - Political Analysis and Commentary from the Middle East is a publication series of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung’s offices in Beirut and Ramallah provides a platform for analysis and viewpoints of experts from the region. The self-immolation of young and jobless Tunisian Mohamed Bouazizi in the provincial town of Sidi Bouzid, being deprived of his vegetable stand and humiliated by the authorities, triggered popular movements and historic events in the Arab World completely unexpected in their magnitude…
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Democracy

Tunis 3-6 October 2011

The Third Arab Bloggers Meeting

The Third Arab Blogger Meeting convened in Tunisia in cooperation with Heinrich Böll Stiftung, the international network Global Vocies and the Tunesian platform of internet activists Nawaat. More than 100 cyberactivists from across the Arab World participated in the „unconference“, as the meeting was called due to its unusual agenda of open meetings and ad-hoc presentations. more»

Muwatin 17th Annual Conference - September, 16 -17, 2011

The Arab Revolutions and their Political and Intellectual Challenges

- The widely known Palestinian Institute Muwatin (The Palestinian institute for the Study of Democracy) held its 17th Annual Conference on “The Arab Revolutions and their Political and Intellectual Challenges”. The event was co-organized by Heinrich Böll Stiftung Arab Middle East Office. more»

Gender Kicks

- On the occasion of the FIFA Women World Cup in Germany and the Gender Kicks 2011 program, Heinrich Boll Foundation and the Goethe-Institut hosted a girls's soccer cup in cooperation with Right To Play on July 9th at the Majed Asa'ad Stadium in Al-Bireh.
Wadee Hanani and Jonas Witsch produced this SHORT TRAILER about the tournament.

Edited Volume

Diversity and Female Political Participation: Views on and from the Arab World

- What does the political participation of women look like within the immense diversity of the Arabic world? This edition of the Heinrich Boell Foundation’s series on Democracy analyzes the historical and current developments of gender relationships, and the role of women in the politics of Egypt, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait. With contributions by Claudia Derichs, Hoda Salah, Azadeh Zamirirad, Hala Kindelberger, Dana Fennert, and Vania Carvalho Pinto. more»

Institute of Women Studies 3rd Annual Conference

- March 31, 2011 - The Institute for Women's Studies organized its Third Annual Conference on 16-17 March, 2011 at Birzeit University. The conference was entitled “Re-thinking Governance & Gender in an Age of Empire” and sought to explore issues of gender and governance in (post-) colonial contexts more»

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