The Institute for Palestine Studies mourns its friend Antoine Zahlan who passed away in Beirut on September 1, 2020 at the age of 92. 

Antoine Zahlan was one of the most prominent Arab scholars in the field of practical science, the relationship between the sciences and society and between the sciences and progress, the social responsibility of scientists, and the adoption of scientific and technological systems in Arab countries. He was also one of the most prominent Arab academics in the field of future studies. He had a distinctively pan-Arab outlook that aspires to an Arab renaissance based on science, technology, culture, and equal citizenship for all.