This book aims to inquire into the ways in which external actors influence Palestinian NGOs in terms of their development policies and their relative promotion of democratization, and secondly, to investigate the capacity of Palestinian NGOs to contribute to the elaboration of global agendas through transnational activism and global conferences.
Sari Hanafi is a professor of sociology and Chair at the Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Media Studies, American University of Beirut. He is also the editor-in-chief of Idafat: The Arab Journal of Sociology.