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"The Country Is Carried by Its People": The Waqfat Ezz Fund, Optimism of the Intellect and Pessimism of the Will

Institute for Palestine Studies · 2020-05-18

A blog essay by Ahmad Izzeddin As'ad for the Institute for Palestine Studies, in its special file on COVID-19 in Palestinian life, assessing the Waqfat Ezz fund set up in April 2020 through the views of citizens and researchers on the private sector's role. It reports Omar Shaban's view that confining the fund's board to private-sector and West Bank figures shut out other sectors and regions, that including Palestinians from every community, the diaspora above all, would have raised far more, and that members should be given defined roles to strengthen efficiency, transparency and trust.

A blog essay by Ahmad Izzeddin As'ad for the Institute for Palestine Studies, in its special file on COVID-19 in Palestinian life, assessing the Waqfat Ezz fund set up in April 2020 through the views of citizens and researchers on the private sector's role. It reports Omar Shaban's view that confin…

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