Institute for Middle East Understanding
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Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) is a 501(c)(3) pro-Palestinian[1] non-profit advocacy organization.
In 2006 it received a grant from the Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development which was used to undertake the first compilation of profiles of prominent Palestinian-Americans in the fields of the arts, literature, academia, business and community service, which were then disseminated to news media and on the Internet[2]
As an example, the IMEU sent a letter to news outlets in November 2007 that provided the names and profiles of Palestinian-Americans who could be contacted to discuss the upcoming Annapolis conference. The names included, , Executive Director of the Washington, DC-based Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development, Diana Buttu, a Ramallah-based attorney and former advisor to Palestinian negotiators, Omar Dajani, a San Francisco-based law professor and former legal advisor to United Nations Special Envoy Terje Roed-Larson, and Nadia Hijab, a Senior Fellow at the Washington, DC-based Institute for Palestine Studies.[3]
One of the organization's co-founders is Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, who is also a member of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) Seattle chapter. As Secretary and Treasurer of the IMEU, she and the organization were featured in the Non-Profit Spotlight of the e-magazine The Mideast Connect.[4] The IMEU also publishes 'Letters from Palestine' (2006), which are cited as a good resource for first-hand testimonies from Palestinians about their daily lives by Deborah Pike in the Borderlands journal.[5]
References[]
- ^ Los Angeles Times (28 April 2014). "Kerry draws fire for reported comment about 'apartheid' and Israel". latimes.com.
- ^ "Past Humanitarian Grant Recipients: 2006 Grantees". Archived from the original on December 3, 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
- ^ "Unmasking Israel's Intentions at Annapolis". Booman Tribune. 13 November 2007. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
- ^ Interview by Ani Zakarian and Kaiser Shahid (2006-07-10). "The Non-Profit Spotlight". Retrieved 2008-03-16.
- ^ Deborah Pike (2006). "Sharon's Wall and the Dialectics of Inside/Outside". 5 (3). Borderlands. Cite journal requires
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- Non-governmental organizations involved in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Israel–United States relations
- Palestinian-American culture
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- Organizations established in 2005