Mission statement
Horizon Center is an independent strategic studies and media outreach organization dedicated to promoting peace, security, stability, economic prosperity, and human rights, including minority civic rights, for the Palestinian people. With insightful political reporting and analysis and periodic dialogue sessions, Horizon fosters thoughtful debate on a wide range of policy issues affecting Palestinian society. Horizon works to expand channels of dialogue between international stakeholders, including diplomats, journalists, and academics, and Palestinian officials, academics, journalists, grassroots organizations, and minority communities. Horizon promotes co-existence, mutual recognition, and respect between Palestinians, minority groups, and other international players in the region and beyond. The organization's experience in human rights and minority civic rights further underscores its commitment to fostering inclusivity, equity, and social justice within Palestinian society.
Ibrahim Dalalsha
Founder and Director, Horizon Center for Political Studies and Media Outreach
Ibrahim Eid Dalalsha is one of the leading analysts of Palestinian politics in the region. Prior to founding the Horizon Center, he served for two decades as the Senior Political Advisor at the US Consulate General in Jerusalem, advising US officials on the Peace Process; Palestinian politics, state development, and civil society; as well as extremist movements. Dalalsha has an unparalleled network of contacts and holds close working relationships with key Palestinians officials, Civil Society leaders and political activists across the spectrum.
Throughout his career in the US government, Dalalsha was named three times the State Department’s Foreign Service National of the Year for outstanding political analysis and reporting and extraordinary networking and outreach. Dalalsha played an integral role in peace negotiations across the Middle East, including the ceasefire negotiations held in 2014 Cairo, Secretary Kerry’s Peace Initiative in 2013-2014, President Bush’s Annapolis Peace Conference in 2009. Prior to joining the US State Department, he worked as an officer with the United Nations Refugee and Works Agency from 1992-1998 and as as a program officer for the National Democratic Institute
At the Horizon Center, Dalalsha drafts political, legal, security and economic studies and other topics related to the Israeli -Palestinian conflict. He also oversees the Center’s daily publication of its political update which highlights major political, security and domestic dynamics. In addition, Dalalsha leads the Horizon Center’s civic engagement initiatives in partnership with local and international partners to promote good governance, culture of tolerance and promotion of two state solution.
Dalalsha is currently a PHD candidate researching Constitutional Law in Palestine. He holds a Masters Degrees in Law from al Quds University 2022 and a Masters Degree in International Studies from Bir Zeit University 2011, a B.Sc. in Law from Al-Quds University 2017, and a B.A. from Bethlehem University in English Literature 1996. He earned a UN sponsored diploma in international humanitarian assistance programs from Liverpool school/UK in 1998. Dalalsha is based in the West Bank and is a native speaker of Arabic as well as fluent in Hebrew and English.