Selected Interviews
Rebel without a state: Evgeny Lebedev meets Ismail Haniyeh, Prime Minister of Gaza
As prime minister of Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh is one of the world's most controversial politicians. He talks to Evgeny Lebedev about the Arab Spring, suicide bombing, the Israeli blockade - and the elusive prospect of peace. Interviewed by Evgeny Lebedev.* "From Jerusalem, the drive to Gaza passes tidy fields and shops selling locally-produced honey. For the final stretch, conifers line...
Interview with Dr. Nabeel Shaath
Interviewed by: Zakia Aqra and Marina Eleftheriadou. CEMMIS: We do know the traditional relationship between Greece and Palestine. How do you see it now in light of the relationship between Israel and Greece? How do you feel about that? Nabeel Shaath: Look, there is a traditional relationship between Palestine and Greece. There is a very special relationship between Palestine and...
Interview with UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk
Interviewed by Dr. Hanan Chehata. In an exclusive and extensive interview with the Middle East Monitor Prof. Richard Falk, the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, talks about the on-going intransigence of Israel and its continued failure to abide by international law. In his frank interview Prof. Falk openly points to the ineffectiveness of the...
Egypt\'s Foreign Minister Nabil Elaraby || Interview Egypt’s Foreign Mnister on the Way Forward After Mubarak
Egypt's Foreign Minister Nabil Elaraby Interviewed by Lally Weymouth* Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas signed an agreement this past week in Cairo that was seen as a first step toward unifying rival governments in Gaza and the West Bank. U.S. and Israeli officials are wary that the reconciliation, brokered by Egypt, could undermine any peace efforts, since both countries consider Hamas...
A Dialogue with Hamas: Part Two
In this second part of a two-part interview with Hamas’s Ousama Hamdan, Manuela Paraipan questions him about the organization’s relationship with other regional powers, efforts for reconciliation with Fatah, and Hamas’s potential involvement in the peace process. MP: How are Hamas’s ties with Egypt and Saudi Arabia? Ousama Hamdan: There is much more potential regarding both. The Egyptians know that the resistance...
A Dialogue with Hamas: Part One
In early November 2010, Manuela Paraipan met with the Beirut-based Hamas leader Ousama Hamdan in Damascus. Delegated to speak on Hamas’s behalf, in this extended two-part interview Hamdan engages in an in-depth discussion of the party’s affairs, policies and interests. This dialogue follows Manuela Paraipan’s recently published interview with Hamas leader Khaled Meshal and offers additional views and insights into...
Palestinian nonviolence: Is the Budrus model still viable?
By Daniella Cheslow: The recent film 'Budrus' champions a West Bank village's nonviolent resistance that inspired more than 15 similar protest movements. But the momentum is waning. Amid disappointment with both negotiations and violence, a documentary film now showing around the globe highlights the nonviolence protest movement as a hopeful alternative. With Middle East peace talks on the brink after the US...
M.Paraipan,2/11/2010 || Interview with Khaled Mashaal
Interviewed by Manuela Paraipan... After escaping an assassination attempt in 1997 and being banned from Jordan in 1999, Khaled Mashal, Hamas leader, made his home in Damascus, where Manuela Paraipan interviewed him last week on Hamas’ approach to the current peace negotiations, his view of Hamas’ strengths, its ongoing commitment to ‘resistance’, and the importance of principle in politics....
Huffington Post || Interview Interview with Khaled Mashaal
Below is a two-part series interview with Khaled Meshaal, published on 31/8/2010 and 25/9/2010 respectively in the Huffington Post. Interviewed by Sharmine Narwani, Senior Associate, St. Antony's College, Oxford University. Part One: Khaled Meshaal Interview: Hamas Chief Weighs In on Eve of Peace Talks Part Two: Khaled Meshaal Interview: A Hamas Take on Mideast Geopolitics...
