Institute for Palestine Studies Employee Directory

It was set up with the aim of achieving some of the principal goals of the Institute for Palestine Studies: the preservation of Palestinian intellectual and cultural production, and the collection of documents and research on the question of Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict in its various phases and developments. Over the years, the Library... has increased its acquisitions and expanded its role, to the point that it is now a unique resource for research and scholarship on the Palestinian cause. The library collections include a wide range of basic reference works, books, and periodicals, in Arabic, English, French, and Hebrew. The library's collection places a particular emphasis on Palestine, its population, history and society, as well on the political, social, military and economic aspects of Israel. n addition to monographs in a number of languages, the collection includes basic reference works, encyclopedias, yearbooks, bibliographies, official reports, dictionaries, atlases, and statistical surveys. The collection also includes rare books, including books issued by the British Mandate authorities in Palestine, volumes produced by the World Zionist Congresses, the official newspaper and rules and regulations issued by the mandatory government of Palestine. The library occupies four storeys in the Institute for Palestine Studies headquarters in Beirut, and comprises over seventy-nine thousand volumes, in addition to hundreds of periodicals and newspapers. In 1984 a decision was taken by the Institute for Palestine Studies Board of Trustees to name the library in honor of Constantine Zurayk, one of the founders of The Institute for Palestine Studies and its honorary president for a quarter of a century, in gratitude for his years of service and scholarship. In 2006, the Center for Information and Documentation was founded and the Library became an integral part of the Center. Also connected to the Center is the website of the IPS and its digitized information which is designed to function within the ...Read More