Democratization in the Middle East: Pluralism and the Palestinians

Issue Date July 1996
Volume 7
Issue 3
Page Numbers 83-93
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About the Author

Ziad Abu-Amr is associate professor of political science at Birzeit University in the West Bank, specializing in Palestinian politics and Islamic movements. His publications include Islamic Fundamentalism in the West Bank and Gaza: Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Jihad (1994). In January 1996, he was elected to the new Palestinian Council as an independent.

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