صعود حماس في نتائج استطلاعات الرأي، 1994-2005
Author biography:
Jamil Hilal, a Palestinian sociologist who has lived in the West Bank since 1995, is senior associate fellow at Muwatin, the Palestinian Institution for the Study of Democracy (Ramallah). His most recent books (in Arabic) include Toward a Palestinian Social Security System (1999); The Formation of the Palestinian Elite (2002); The Making of the Palestinian Middle Class (2006); and a monograph, Palestinian Political Parties (2006). He would like to thank Henrik Luden for his input to this paper, which originally was intended to be a joint paper with long quotes from Luden’s interviews with supporters of the Islamic movement in the West Bank.