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Camille Mansour
Camille Mansour (born 1945) is a Palestinian academic. In addition to his teaching post at different universities he has worked at the Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS), Beirut, Lebanon, in various capacities, including the secretary-general of its board of trustees. Early life and educationMansour was born in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine, in 1945.[1] He graduated from the American University of Beirut.[1] He obtained his Ph.D. in political science and Islamic from the Paris-Sorbonne University.[1] Career and activitiesMansour served as the editor in chief of The Yearbook of Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict for the IPS in Beirut.[1] He worked at Harvard University as a visiting scholar from 1979 to 1980.[1] He was named as the chair of the IPS's research department in 1980 and remained in office until 1984.[2] He became a professor of international relations and Middle Eastern politics at the University of Paris in 1984 which he left in 2004.[3] He was named as the advisor to the Palestinian negotiation team for the Madrid conference in 1991 and for the Washington conference.[4] His term as legal advisor ended in February 1994.[5] He was tasked to establish the law center of Birzeit University, West Bank, in 1994 and then became its head which he held until 2000.[6] Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Authority, assigned him to a constitutional committee in February 1996.[1] Mansour is the founder of Al Muqtafi, the Palestine Judicial and Legislative Databank.[3] He served as the dean of its Faculty of Law and Public Administration from 2007 and 2009.[3] He also worked as a senior advisor of the United Nations Development Program for the Palestinian Rule of Law and Judiciary, Jerusalem, between 2004 and 2006.[6] Later Mansour was named as the secretary-general of IPS's board of trustees, and member of Birzeit University's board of trustees.[6] He is the editor-in-chief of the Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question.[6] WorkMansour has authored many articles and books, including Les Palestiniens de l’intérieur, Beyond Alliance: Israel in U.S. Foreign Policy ISBN 9780231084925, and The Palestinian-Israeli Negotiations: An Overview and Assessment, October 1991–January 1993.[1] He also coedited various books such as Transformed Landscapes: Essays on Palestine and the Middle East in Honor of Walid Khalidi ISBN 978-9774162473.[6] ViewsMansour states that Israel have transformed Palestinians into targets through a detailed system of monitoring which he calls "besieging cartography".[7] This system consists of many tools, including "passive sensors, observation towers equipped with day/night and radar surveillance capabilities, satellite images and photographs from reconnaissance planes and electronic data banks for analysis."[7] In his book entitled Beyond Alliance: Israel in U.S. Foreign Policy Mansour argues that the total support of the US to Israeli policies has a psychological dimension in addition to political, economic and strategic dimensions.[8] He adds that this support is, in fact, a burden to the American government and is not a product of the extensive Jewish lobby in the US, but of the positive approach of the Americans towards Israelis.[8] For him, Americans have a negative view about Palestinians.[8] References
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