Mohammed Samhouri, Author at ICDI

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Mohammed Samhouri

Dr. Mohammed Samhouri is a Gaza-born Palestinian economist and academic. He is a former senior economic advisor in the Palestinian Authority and a former senior research and teaching fellow at Brandeis University’s Crown Center for Middle East Studies in Boston. In 2005, he led a team of 40 Palestinian technical experts to prepare Gaza for the day after Israeli disengagement. He is the author of the 2017 UNDP-commissioned report Beyond Survival: Challenges to Economic Recovery and Long-Term Development in the Gaza Strip. This piece is a short, revised and updated version of an essay published by the Middle East Institute in October.