About IPS

The Institute for Palestine Studies Board of Trustees includes businessmen, public figures, professionals, and intellectuals from across the Arab world. The 2018 Board of Trustees is listed below by alphabetical order, and includes members of the Executive Committee and the officers of the Board.



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.

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 ebanon, 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)