Marwan Barghouti

Jailed Leader Urges Protests For Palestine Statehood

AP | DIAA HADID and ARON HELLER | Posted 09.19.2011

RAMALLAH, West Bank — An imprisoned Palestinian uprising leader held by Israel called Wednesday for "millions" of people to take to the streets ...

Israel May Swap 1,000 Palestinian Prisoners For Soldier Held By Hamas

AP | JOSEF FEDERMAN and DIAA HADID | Posted 05.25.2011

JERUSALEM — Hamas leaders raced to Egypt on Monday amid signs of progress on a deal to swap hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for a captive Isra...

Palestine After Abbas

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.25.2011

Daoud Kuttab

The coming months will reveal whether we are, indeed, witnessing the dawn of the post-Oslo era in Palestinian politics, and whether a new leader will be required to revive the Palestinian cause.

Marwan Barghouti: The 'Palestinian Nelson Mandela'

GlobalPost | Matt Beynon Rees | Posted 05.25.2011

The most important man in Palestinian politics is neither president nor prime minister. He doesn't shuttle between meetings at the U.S. ambassador's r...

Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka | Posted 05.25.2011

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka

These Past Two Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Afghan Elections SI Analysis: Presidential elections in Afghanistan will be held on 20 August....

Fatah Moves Closer To Becoming A Political Party

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.25.2011

Daoud Kuttab

The Fatah movement, the key Palestinian guerrilla movement within the Palestine Liberation Organization moved one step closer to becoming a political party.

Marwan Barghouti Could Return Through Israel-Hamas Truce Deal

AP | BEN HUBBARD and MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH | Posted 05.25.2011

RAMALLAH, West Bank — While a possible Israeli-Palestinian prisoner swap focuses on a famous Israeli soldier, the prisoner most likely to affect...