IPS Boards

The Institute for Palestine Studies Board of Trustees includes businessmen, public figures, professionals, and intellectuals from across the Arab world. The 2019 Board of Trustees is listed below by alphabetical order, and includes members of the Executive Committee and the officers of the Board.

2019 BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Honorary Chairman

Walid Khalidi (Palestine, Lebanon) 

Chairman

Tarek Mitri (Lebanon) 

Vice Chairman

Basel Amin Aql (Palestine, Jordan)

Treasurer

Luay Khoury (Jordan, Bahrain)

Secretary

Camille Mansour (Palestine)

Executive Committee Members

Muhammad Ali Khalidi (Palestine, Jordan)

Fadi Moghaizel (Lebanon)
Adnan Mroueh (Lebanon)
Leila Shahid (Palestine)
Huda Zurayk (Lebanon)

Other Trustees

Omar Abdulhadi (Palestine, Jordan)
Fatima Abu Ghazaleh (Palestine, Jordan)
Maher Abughazaleh (Palestine, Lebanon)
Ghassan Soleiman Abu-Sittah (Palestine, UK)
Ammar Aker (Palestine)

Faisal Alami (Palestine, Lebanon)

Muhsin Al-Ayni (Yemen)
Lolwa Alkhater (Qatar)
Issam Ashour (Palestine, Lebanon)
Hanan Ashrawi (Palestine)
Dia Azzawi (Iraq)
Fouad Bawarshi (Lebanon)
Bahaa Adel Bou Karroum (Lebanon)
Lakhdar Brahimi (Algeria)
Kaoukab Chebaro (Lebanon)
Ibrahim Dabdoub (Palestine, Kuwait)
Mazen Dajani (Palestine, Jordan)
Izzat Darwazeh (Palestine, UK)
Nabil Elaraby (Egypt)
Ali Fakhro (Bahrain)
Anwar Gargash (UAE)
Musa Farah Hadid (Palestine)
Abdlatif Y. Al-Hamad (Kuwait)
Nadia Hijab (Palestine, UK)
Khalil Hindi (Palestine)
Sawsan Al-Fahoum Jafar (Palestine)
Zina Jardaneh (Palestine, Jordan)
Samir Jarrad (Palestine)
Taher Kanaan (Palestine, Jordan) 
Walid Khaddouri (Iraq, Lebanon)
Rashid Khalidi (Palestine, USA)
Samer Said Khoury (Palestine, Lebanon)
Fadia Kiwan (Lebanon)
Mai Masri (Palestine, Lebanon)
Rana Masri (Palestine, Lebanon)
Mohammad Matar (Lebanon)
Gamil Mattar (Egypt)
Mouhammed Mustafa (Palestine)
Issam Naaman (Lebanon)
Randa Nabulsi (Palestine, Jordan)
Hisham Nashabe (Lebanon)
Rami R. Nimr (Palestine, Lebanon)
Ali Omlil (Morocco)
Nabil H. Qaddumi (Palestine, Kuwait)
Omar Qattan (Palestine, UK)
Suhail Sabbagh (Palestine, Lebanon)
Riad T. Al-Sadik (Palestine)
Hani Salaam (Lebanon)
Hashim Shawa (Palestine)
Serin Shihabi (KSA, UK)
Mahmoud Soueid (Lebanon)
Jad Tabet (Lebanon)

DECEASED TRUSTEES

Many of those who served IPS over the decades are now deceased. The Institute is ever grateful for their contribution. Their names are listed below, followed by their country and the year of their passing.

Honorary Chairman

Said T. Khoury (Palestine, Lebanon, 2014) 

Hasib Sabbagh (Palestine, Lebanon, 2010)

Nabih Amin Faris (Lebanon, 1967)
Maurice Gemayel (Lebanon, 1970)
Saleh Masud Abu Yaseer (Libya, 1973)
Wadad Cortas (Lebanon, 1979)
Fuad Sarrouf (Lebanon, 1985)
Sa'id Himadeh (Lebanon, 1991)
Edmond Rabbath (Lebanon, 1991)
Muhammad Mursi Ahmad (Egypt, 1994)
Farid Saad (Jordan, 1995)
Taher Radwan (Saudi Arabia, 1996)
Ahmad Baha-El-Din (Egypt, 1996)
As'ad Al-As'ad (Lebanon, 1996)
Pierre Edde (Lebanon, 1997)
Shams Ed-Din Wakil (Egypt, 1998)
Constantine Zurayk (Lebanon, 2000)
Burhan Dajani (Jordan, 2000)
Charles Helou (Lebanon, 2001)
Hala Salam Maksoud (Lebanon, 2002)
Zahia Kaddoura (Lebanon, 2002)
Mohieddine Saber (Sudan, 2003)
Adib Daoudy (Syria, 2004)
Abdel-Aziz al-Saqr (Kuwait, 2005)
Edmond Naim (Lebanon, 2006)
'Abdel-Wahhab 'Abdel-Wassi' (Saudi Arabia, 2006)
Najla Abu Izzeddin (Lebanon, 2008)
Mahmoud Darwish (Palestine, 2008)
Nadim Dimechkie (Lebanon, 2009)
Sami Alami (Palestine, Lebanon, 2010)
Mohammad Al-Majzoub (Lebanon, 2016)
Salman Abbasi (Palestine, 2016)
Abdul Muhsin Al-Qattan (Palestine, Kuwait, 2017)
Abdul Hassan Zalzalah (Iraq, 2018) 

 

2019 BOARD OF DIRECTORS of Institute for Palestine Studies USA, Inc.

President & Chairman

Rashid I. Khalidi

Vice President & Vice Chairman  

Nadia Abu El-Haj

Secretary 

Paul F. Saba, Esq. 

Treasurer

Philip Mattar

Members

Camille Mansour

Tarek Mitri

Imad Khalidi

Mohammad Ali Khalidi