Sari Nusseibeh Research Articles

The Road Not Taken: The Amirav-Husayni Peace Initiative of 1987

In the summer of 1987, Israeli citizens Moshe Amirav and David Ish Shalom initiated a secret unofficial negotiation channel with Palestinian leaders Faysal al-Husayni and Sari Nusseibeh, with the approval of the Palestine Liberation Organization leadership and the acknowledgment of senior members of Israel's ruling Likud party. But the attempt to turn the Amirav-Husayni initiative into official negotiations failed. This article analyzes the negotiations, examines the actors involved and the agreement, and discusses the historical importance of the initiative and the reasons for its failure.

The Story of Reason in Islam. By SariNusseibeh. Pp. xiii, 260, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2017, $26.95.

The Heythrop JournalVolume 60, Issue 3 p. 509-510 Book Review The Story of Reason in Islam. By Sari Nusseibeh. Pp. xiii, 260, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2017, $26.95. Patrick Madigan, Patrick Madigan Campion Hall, OxfordSearch for more papers by this author Patrick Madigan, Patrick Madigan Campion Hall, OxfordSearch for more papers by this author First published: 25 April 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.13261Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume60, Issue3Special Issue: ECUMENISM — ISLAMMay 2019Pages 509-510 RelatedInformation

Palestine…It Is Something Colonial

Palestine…It Is Something Colonial

Palestine…It Is Something Colonial

Palestine…It Is Something Colonial

Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World by Carlos Fraenkel

Research Article| April 01 2019 Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World by Carlos Fraenkel Fraenkel, Carlos, Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016), 240 pp. Sari Nusseibeh Sari Nusseibeh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 417–418. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-7312249 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sari Nusseibeh; Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World by Carlos Fraenkel. Common Knowledge 1 April 2019; 25 (1-3): 417–418. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-7312249 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsCommon Knowledge Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press2019 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

What is a Palestinian State Worth?

Sari Nusseibeh begins his study of the “Palestinian problem” with the comment “this is not an academic study” (18). Maybe that is why this particular study is so good. When asked to write this review my first response was not very positive. Most studies of this region lack clarity or are so ideological as to not be very useful. Many of these studies often also claim to be “academic.” Nusseibeh’s study is, unlike many reviews, a masterful academic study. His study succinctly and accurately portrays the tangled and tortured history of the region from a view that is both sympathetic to the Palestinian (Arab) position but at the same time is an accurate and revealing presentation which recounts history that answers basic issues instead of clouding them. In his discussion of Balfour he illustrates why Balfour was not helpful in settling regional disputes between its inhabitants and how Balfour actually creates more problems that it resolves.

Her Books: Moving My Mother's Library to Al-Quds

Her Books: Moving My Mother's Library to Al-Quds

ONCE UPON A COUNTRY. A PALESTINIAN LIFE

Sari Nusseibeh (with Anthony David) (London: Halban, 2009 (2nd edn) 534 pp ISBN 9781905559145This is the autobiography of an academic whose enthralling story is about far more than merely himself. Sari Nusseibeh is a philosopher who is President of Al-Quds University in Jerusalem. His family have been in that city for well over a thousand years – there are stories here about the (female) ancestor who was a first follower of the Prophet and the 7th century relative who was installed by Caliph Omar as the first Moslem high judge of Jerusalem and given custody of the key to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. This key has mattered a lot to the Nusseibehs; give or take the occasional Crusade, they have held it through the centuries, the Moslem doorkeeper to the fighting Christians on the site of Christ’s crucifixion. Nusseibeh is hilarious on this as he is on so much else in the first half of the book. Dominating these early pages is his extraordinary father: lawyer; tennis player of renown; Cambridge graduate; fighter for the Palestinians (he was shot in the 1948 war and lost a leg); and then (during the Jordanian hegemony that followed that national catastrophe) governor of Jerusalem, Jordan’s Ministry of Defence and her Ambassador to the United Kingdom. His funeral in 1986 ‘turned into the largest political demonstration in Jerusalem since the occupation’ – the ‘crowd like water from a fire hose aimed into a maze’.

Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life (review)

Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life, by Sari Nusseibeh (with David Anthony). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. 542 pp. $27.50 This is the autobiography of one of the foremost Palestinian intellectual and political leaders. The scion of an elite family that traces its roots in Jerusalem back 1300 years, Nusseibeh has distinguished himself by vigorously abjuring resort to violence in the struggle against Israel. This has earned him the admiration of the Israeli peace camp. It did not, however, protect him from vitriolic attacks by the Israeli right wing nor from radical Palestinian elements, who thought him too conciliatory. Nor did it keep him out of Israeli prisons. Although assuming the form of an autobiography, with appropriate emphasis on personal experience, the book also provides running commentaries on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as well as including numerous references to the works of medieval Arab philosophers (with whom he is thoroughly familiar), their ancient Greek predecessors, and their modern European successors. As a graduate of Oxford and armed with a Harvard Ph.D., Nusseibeh carved out a career in Palestinian higher education, culminating in the position he still holds today: President of al-Quds University, the only Arab institution of higher learning in Jerusalem. Nusseibeh's life brackets the conflict by which it has been dominated. He was born in 1949, the year after the formation of the State of Israel. As a child, he lived in a family home which bordered on the so-called Green Line in Jerusalem. From his bedroom window he was able to observe at fairly close range the comings and goings of the ultra-Orthodox denizens of Mea Shearim, the famous shtetl-like district of West Jerusalem. Not until 1967, when he was in his late teens, did the elimination of the Green Line enable him to enter Israel proper and see that it consisted of a lot more than just the ultra-Orthodox. He was exposed to political ideas and concerns by his father, a politically active lawyer who held several important positions in the Jordanian government, and who maintained a tolerant, cosmopolitan, and open atmosphere in the home. At age 19, Nusseibeh moved to Oxford and later Harvard, where he studied philosophy. Already at this stage, he developed a strong belief in the unity of civilizations, as opposed to the so-called clash of civilizations set forth by such neo-conservatives as Bernard Lewis and Samuel Huntington. He also abandoned his youthful infatuation with the ideal of a single secular democratic state with equal rights for Jews and Arabs, and instead came to advocate the concept of a two-state solution with a separate independent Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel. This is the position he continues to maintain, arguing that Israelis and Palestinians are (or should be) natural allies rather than mortal enemies. In addition to his impeccable academic credentials, and the fact that he pursued a career in higher education, Nusseibeh was also politically active. Yasir Arafat actively sought his support, but Nusseibeh successfully resisted most of the time. He devoted considerable energy to building al-Quds as a genuine and respected academic institution. Arrayed against him was a series of formidable obstacles, beginning with the Palestinian Ministry of Higher Education, which sought to impose its authority on the essentially autonomous university, and including the Israeli government which was bent on limiting if not eliminating all Palestinian institutions within the city of Jerusalem, to Fatah and Hamas, whose members among the students got into open and violent conflicts which led to the expulsion of the Hamas faction from the university. …

Iran's Power in Context

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In Support of Academic Freedom

We, members of Executive Committee of International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies (Network), oppose renewed initiatives that support an academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions. We also oppose Israeli restrictions on Palestinian students that prevent them from studying at institutions of higher in Israel, West Bank, and abroad. We call on national academies affiliated with our Network to do same. We reiterate our belief in the free exchange of ideas and opinions among scientists and scholars in all countries, which thereby stimulates the development of collaborative educational, research and human-rights endeavors within academies and institutions with which they are affiliated. Boycotts deny our colleagues their to freedom of opinion and expression; interfere with their ability to exercise their bona fide academic freedoms; inhibit free circulation of scientists and scientific ideas; impose unjust punishment, and impede the instrumental role played by scientists and scholars in promotion of peace and human rights ([1][1]). We also oppose Israeli restrictions on Palestinian students such as ban imposed in 2000 that prevents all Palestinian students in Gaza from traveling to West Bank to study, and a statement earlier this month by Israeli military that it will continue to prevent Gaza students from studying in Israel. Additionally, a recommendation by Israeli Supreme Court that Ministry of Defense submit criteria for allowing Palestinian students from West Bank to study in Israel has repeatedly been delayed to point that West Bank residents, still banned from studying in Israel, now risk missing Israeli university application deadlines for coming academic year. We reiterate hope expressed in our 6 November 2006 statement to Israeli authorities ([2][2]) that their policy of academic exclusion will be promptly reversed. In that same statement, we joined Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in opposing measures, by any government, restricting or impairing ability of scientists and students to carry out their scientific work and to discharge their scientific or academic responsibilities. We also agree with four Israeli university presidents and a number of prominent intellectuals who recently wrote that [b]locking access to higher for Palestinian students from Gaza who choose to study in West Bank casts a dark shadow over Israel's image as a state which respects and supports principle of academic freedom and right to education ([3][3]). Lastly, we recall and continue to support joint statement of cooperation, signed at our Network's May 2005 meeting by Sari Nusseibeh and Menachem Magidor, presidents of Al-Quds University and Hebrew University, respectively, that said, Our disaffection with, and condemnation of acts of academic boycotts and discrimination against scholars and institutions, is predicated on principles of academic freedom, human rights, and equality between nations and among individuals. We therefore call upon academics here and worldwide to act in support of our mission, as one which might allow for ending our shared tragedy rather than prolonging it ([4][4]). 1. 1.[↵][5] For full text of 13 June 2002, statement, see [www7.nationalacademies.org/humanrights/In\_Support\_of\_Scientific\_Exchange.html][6]. 2. 2.[↵][7] See [www7.nationalacademies.org/humanrights/Network\_Statement\_Access\_to\_Education\_Nov\_2006.html][8]. 3. 3.[↵][9] The presidents of Ben-Gurion University (Rivka Carmi), Hebrew University (Menachem Megidor), Haifa University (Aharon Ben-Zeev), Technion (Yitzhak Apeloig), and a group of Israeli authors, including Amos Oz, A. B. Yehoshua, David Grossman, Nathan Zach, Ariel Hirschfeld, Agi Mishol, and Yitzhak Laor (see [www.gisha.org/index.php?intLanguage=2&intItemId=426&intSiteSN=113][10]). 4. 4.[↵][11] The full text can be found in Proceedings of meeting: [www.nap.edu/catalog/11740.html][12]. [1]: #ref-1 [2]: #ref-2 [3]: #ref-3 [4]: #ref-4 [5]: #xref-ref-1-1 View reference 1. in text [6]: http://www7.nationalacademies.org/humanrights/In_Support_of_Scientific_Exchange.html [7]: #xref-ref-2-1 View reference 2. in text [8]: http://www7.nationalacademies.org/humanrights/Network_Statement_Access_to_Education_Nov_2006.html [9]: #xref-ref-3-1 View reference 3. in text [10]: http://www.gisha.org/index.php?intLanguage=2&intItemId=426&intSiteSN=113 [11]: #xref-ref-4-1 View reference 4. in text [12]: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11740.html

Teaching Plato in Palestine

Can philosophy save the Middle East? This, I learn from a friend upon arriving in Israel in February of 2006, is the thesis of Sari Nusseibeh, not only a prominent Palestinian intellectual and the Palestinian Liberation Organization's former chief representative in Jerusalem, but by training a philosopher (and, I think, by nature, too). "Only philosophy" the friend quotes him as saying at the Shlomo Pines memorial lecture he gave in West Jerusalem three years before. Six months later, when I return to Montreal, I'm almost convinced that he's right.

Max Perutz: chemist, molecular biologist, human rights activist

Tribute paid to Max Perutz before the Max Perutz Memorial Lecture given by Professor Sari Nusseibeh at The International Human Rights Network of Academics and Scholarly Societies, The Royal Society, London, 19 May 2005.

Does human rights need God?

Series Foreword John D. Carlson and Jean Bethke Elshtain Preface Contributors Introduction: The of Human Rights Elizabeth M. Bucar and Barbra Barnett Part I: Religious Appraisals Why Human Rights Needs God: A Christian Perspective Max L. Stackhouse Human Rights and Modern Western Faith: An Orthodox Christian Assessment Vigen Guroian God and Human Rights in a Secular Society: A Biblical-Talmudic Perspective David Novak Islam and the Challenge of Democratic Commitment Khaled Abou El Fadl Enduring Change: Confucianism and the Prospect of Human Rights Anthony C. Yu Part II: Secular Responses Natural Law and Human Rights: A Conversation Robert P. George Religion, Religions, and Human Rights Louis Henkin The Challenge of Religious Fundamentalism to the Liberty and Equality Rights of Women: An Analysis under the United Nations Charter Courtney W. Howland Part III: Regional Experiences The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict of Rights: Is God the Only Problem? Sari Nusseibeh God, the Devil, and Human Rights: The South African Perspective Charles Villa-Vicencio What Kind of God Does Human Rights Require? Martin Palou' Religious Freedom: A Legacy to Reclaim Robert A. Seiple Afterword Jean Bethke Elshtain Endnotes

Max Perutz: chemist, molecular biologist, human rights activist

Tribute paid to Max Perutz prior to the Max Perutz Memorial Lecture given by Professor Sari Nusseibeh at The International Human Rights Network of Academics and Scholarly Societies, Royal Society, London, 19 May 2005.

A1. SARI NUSSEIBEH AND AMI AYALON, ““THE PEOPLE'S VOICE,”” JERUSALEM, SEPTEMBER 2002.

Also known as the ““Nusseibeh-Ayalon agreement,”” the joint Palestinian-Israeli document consists of a set of principles that the authors, Sari Nusseibeh (al-Quds University president) and Ami Ayalon (former Shin Bet director) see as the essential basis of any Palestinian-Israeli peace. Since its release over a year ago in the form of a petition, it has steadily gained momentum and by mid-November 2003 had garnered over 100,000 Israeli and 70,000 Palestinian signatures. The publication of the far more detailed Geneva Accord (see the Special Document section in this issue), coupled with growing frustration over the continuing political stagnation, gave further impetus to the petition, which was also promoted by its authors on visits to Europe and the United States. The petition, originally published in Ha'Aretz on 3 September 2002, was posted on the Web site of Foundation for Middle East Peace, www.fmep.org, in November 2003.

The Israeli-Palestinian Accord

Essay| February 01 1994 The Israeli-Palestinian Accord: An Israeli View Mark A. Heller Mark A. Heller Mark A. Heller is a senior research associate at the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University. His publications include A Palestinian State: The Im plications for Israel (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983) and, with Sari Nusseibeh No Trum pets, No Drums: A Two-State Settlem ent of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (New York: Hill and Wang, 1991). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1994) 93 (580): 56–61. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1994.93.580.56 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Mark A. Heller; The Israeli-Palestinian Accord: An Israeli View. Current History 1 February 1994; 93 (580): 56–61. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1994.93.580.56 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCurrent History Search This content is only available via PDF. © 1994 by The Regents of the University of California1994 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Israeli-Palestinian Coauthoring: A New Development toward Peace?

Reviewing Mark A. Heller's and Sari Nusseibeh's book No Trumpets, No Drums: A Two-State Settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict* provides an excellent opportunity to place the joint venture of two scholars working on both sides of the green line within the wider context of an historical introspection on coauthorship in a situation of existential conflict.' Indeed, the mere writing of such a book by a Palestinian and an Israeli intellectual-at the time affiliated with, respectively, Birzeit University and Tel Aviv University-raises the question of whether two patriotic and pragmatic members of nations at war can cooperate in arriving at a single analysis of their realities. A second question that poses itself is to what extent the joint exercise of writing such a book sets a precedent. We will begin, therefore, by addressing the general background of coauthoring in the Israeli-Palestinian context as part of a process that gradually brought individuals in the disputed land to translate into writing their shared and unshared visions. Besides the coauthoring experiences of Arabs

Shared and Unshared Visions: No Trumpets, No Drums: A Two-State Settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. . Mark A. Heller, Sari Nusseibeh.

Shared and Unshared Visions: No Trumpets, No Drums: A Two-State Settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. . Mark A. Heller, Sari Nusseibeh.

Book reviews

Self‐Determination in the New World Order. By Morton J. Halperin and David J. Scheffçr with Patricia Small. Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1992. 178pp. £25.00. Israel and Jordan in the Shadow of War: Functional Ties and Futile Diplomacy in a Small State. By Adam Garfinkle. London: Macmillan, 1992. 230pp. £40.00. No Trumpet, No Drums: A Two‐State Settlement of the Israeli‐Palestinian Conflict. By Sari Nusseibeh and Mark A. Heller. London: I.B. Tauris and Co., 1991. 183pp. £12.95. Syria and the Middle East Peace Process. By Alasdair Drysdale and Raymond A. Hinnebusch. New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1992. 244pp. $16.95. Shining Path: The World's Deadliest Revolutionary Force. By Simon Strong. London: Harper Collins, 1992. 274pp. £16.99. Shining Path of Peru. Edited by David Scott Palmer. London: C. Hurst and Co., 1992. 270pp. £12.95. Western Europe and the Gulf. Edited by Nicole Gnesotto and John Roper. Paris: The Institute for Security Studies, Western European Union, 1992. 219pp. Price not given. Cooperation and Discord in US‐Soviet Arms Control. By Steve Weber. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991. 33 lpp. $37.50. Population Change and European Security. Edited by Lawrence Freedman and John Saunders. London: Brassey's (UK), 1991. 295pp. £22.00. Grand Strategies in War and Peace. Edited by Paul Kennedy. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991. 228pp. £16.00.