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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Perspectives #1 April 2011: Nuclear Energy and the Arab World - Ambition and Peril

- Perspectives - Political Analysis and Commentary from the Middle East is a publication series of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung’s offices in Beirut and Ramallah. The first edition focus on the use of Nuclear Energy in the Arab World. With contributions from Mohamed Abdel Raouf, Hamed Beheshti, Ali Darwish, Leila Ghanem, Dennis Kumentat und Nikolaus Supersberger, Najib Saab, Larbi Sadiki, und Jürgen Trittin

 

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New publication by Heinrich Böll Stiftung - ameo. please press here to download the pdf version.

Arabic Translation of "The Myths about Nuclear Energy" by Gerd Rosenkranz

-  “The Myths about Nuclear Energy – How the Energy Lobby is Pulling the Wool over our Eyes” by Gerd Rosenkranz  was translation into the Arabic. 25 years after Chernobyl, the worst nuclear accident until now, history is repeating itself. The recent in events in Japan highlighted once again the destructive potential of nuclear energy. (Second Arabic Edition - June 2011) more»

Water-as a human right, Karen Assaf, Bayoumi Attia, Ali Darwish, Batir Wardam and Simone Klawitter, 2004 (English, PDF, 246 pages, 2,58 MB)

The water problem in the Middle Eastern region is a highly controversial political issue, a significant component to the Arab-Israeli conflict in general, and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict in particular. Palestinian and international experts present in this study latest information around the topic.

July 20, 2009 - Environmental Policies in Partnership - Bani Zaid West Municipality, PDF, 4 MB, 82 pages (Arabic)

July 20, 2009 - "What we Have and What is Not ours - Government Resources in the Twenty First Century", PDF 1,48 MB, 76 pages  (Arabic)

July 20, 2009 - Jerusalem Childhoods, Jerusalem Quarterly, Spring 2009, Issue 37, published by the Institute of Jerusalem Studies

The Institute of Jerusalem Studies (IJS), the Jerusalem branch of the Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS), was established in 1995. IJS draws upon a local board of trustees, scholars, and administrators. The main objective of the Institute of Jerusalem Studies is to produce scholarship in English and Arabic on the city of Jerusalem. It publishes both the Jerusalem Quarterly (English) and the Hawliyyat al-Quds (Arabic).

July 20, 2009 - Archiving Palestine, Jerusalem Quarterly, Winter 2008, Issue 36 published by Institute for Jerusalem Studies

New publication: Gender Politics Makes a Difference Politics can only succeed when it is inclusive of all genders. Gender justice is an ambitious goal, one that the Heinrich Böll Foundation is pursuing together with many different allies worldwide. This publication gives an overview of their work. more»

Salma Newsletter, issue 01 ( English, PDF, 8 pages, 902 KB)

Salma Network presents its first issue of Salma Newsletter as part of the seocnd phase of the Salma Project started in 2003. The newsletter focuses on the humanitarian natre of partners` work on real cases to reflect the cruelty and negative repercussions of violence on women and the community.

Gender Responsive Budgeting for Local Councils by Miftah (Arabic, PDF,  95 pages 1,532 KB)

The book was developed by MIFTAH in its pilot project on gender budgeting for local cmmunicities. The mnual gives trainers in this field the tools to promote gender responsive budgets in local and municipal councils in a way that encourages local councils to prepare and develop gender approachable budgets.

Audio-Visual Media in Palestine after the Oslo Accords by Jamal Nazzal,(Arabic, PDF, 279 pages, 1.38 MB)