Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy

The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy, MIFTAH, was formed in 1998 and "is a non-governmental non-partisan Jerusalem-based institution dedicated to fostering democracy and good governance within Palestinian society through promoting public accountability, transparency, the free flow of information and ideas, and the challenging of stereotyping at home and abroad."

Funding
They have received funding from the following 'democratic' organizations:
 * Ford Foundation
 * IRI
 * NED

They have also received funding from:
 * Friedrich Ebert Siftung
 * Konrad Adenauer Siftung
 * Heinreich Boll Foundation
 * Transparency International
 * AMAN
 * British Council

Board of Trustees
Accessed August 2007:


 * Sawsan Fahoum Jafar - chair
 * Hanan Ashrawi (Head of the Executive Committee)
 * Ziad Abu-Amr
 * Maha Abu Dayyeh – Shamas
 * Mustafa Barghouthi
 * Mahmoud Darwish
 * Rema Hamammi
 * Khalil Hindi
 * Mohammad-Abdel-Qader Husseini
 * Muhammad Masrouji
 * Tafeeda Jarbawi
 * Ghassan Al-Khatib
 * Khalil Jahshan
 * Rashid I. Khalidi
 * Sa'id Khoury
 * Sabih Al-Masri
 * Abdel-Muhsin Qattan
 * George Salem
 * Eyad Al-Sarraj
 * Azmi Shuaibi
 * Raji Sourani
 * MIFTAH's Secretary General - Lily Feidy (Secretary General since May 2006)

Contact

 * Web: http://www.miftah.org