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Elias Zananiri

Vice-Chairman
PLO Committee for Interaction with the Israeli Society
Participates in 1 Session
  • Vice- Chairman, PLO Committee for Interaction with the Israeli Society
  • Policy Advisor/ Media & PR Consultant
  • Journalist since 1977
  • Television Producer: News | Features | Documentaries | Movies
  • Former Political Advisor & Media Consultant: Spokesman: Palestinian National Authority’s Ministry of Interior & Internal Security
  • Former Political Advisor & Media Consultant: Palestinian National Authority’s Minister of Justice
  • Languages: Arabic | English | Hebrew

Media Experience:

 1977 - 1980 Deputy Editor of Al Fajr, Arabic daily published in East Jerusalem
1980 – 1988 Editor | Palestine Press Services (News Agency) & Al Awdah English weekly in East Jerusalem
1988 – 2003 TV Producer & Senior Management Positions with foreign television networks and channels
2000 – 2001 Head, TV Training Unit at the Media Training Institute, Birzeit University
 2007 TV Correspondent, Russia Today.
2008 – 2010 CEO, Palestine Tomorrow, a private TV Channel in Ramallah

Official Titles & Political Activism:

2003 Spokesman, PNA Ministry of Interior & Internal Security
2009 – 2011 Policy Advisor & Media Consultant, PNA Minister of Justice
 2003 – 2007 Director General, Palestinian Peace Coalition, PPC -- a semiofficial Palestinian organization to promote the two-state solution for the Arab- Israeli conflict.
Throughout all of his years in the field of media/ politics, participated in numerous lectures and joint appearances before Israeli audience advocating a the two-state solution for the Arab-Israeli conflict based on the 1967 borders.
2013- Present Deputy-Chairman, PLO Committee for Interaction with the Israeli Society.

Education: BA in Political Science, Somali National University (1980)
Languages: Arabic (native) | English (fluent) | Hebrew (fluent)
Personal Info: Married + | Born in 1954 | Driving License since 1972. 

Sessions in which Elias Zananiri participates

Tuesday 23 February, 2016

Time Zone: (GMT+02:00) Jerusalem
2:00 PM
2:00 PM

Inbal Hotel - Zion Ballroom

MK Hilik Bar, Zionist Union (Participant)

John Rosove, CCAR Israel Convention (Participant)

Rueven Hazan, Chair, Department of Political Science at Hebrew University (Moderator)

Elias Zananiri, PLO Committee for Interaction with the Israeli Society (Participant)

Program to be moderated by Prof. Reuven Hazan Introduction by John Rosove The idea of “two states for two peoples” has become the ...