Helena Cobban: Shifting Dimensions of the Palestinian Question

Shifting Dimensions of the Palestinian Question: Conclusions from a Reporting Trip

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Helena Cobban
Writer and Researcher
Tuesday, 31 March 2009

Back from a month-long reporting trip to the Middle East that took her to Egypt, Jordan, the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, Helena Cobban shares her findings and conclusions based on first-hand accounts of developments on the ground. During the trip, Cobban interviewed more than 45 people ranging from Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad to several Hamas lawmakers and senior officials with aid agencies working in the Gaza Strip.

Helena Cobban is a writer and researcher who has worked on Palestinian issues since 1974. She worked for The Christian Science Monitor for many years, first as a reporter and later as a columnist. Over the past decade, Ms. Cobban has written extensively in The Boston Review on her long-maintained blog, 'Just World News', and elsewhere on developments in Israel and Palestine.

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