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QASSEM IZZAT ALI is a media specialist, a founder and innovator in the television news industry. Ali’s journalism career has evolved over the past three decades, from covering the First Palestinian Intifada to leading the only Arabic television news agency to international renown. As a pioneer in the news industry, he established Ramattan News Agency, a Palestinian news agency based on solid, strategic, grassroots news gathering within Palestinian communities. In this way, Ali has shaped the international media focus on key historical events, including the Israeli reaction to the outbreak of the First Palestinian Intifada in the camps of Gaza, the response of Iraq to the first Gulf War and the 2008–2009 War on Gaza. Politically active as a student in Birzeit, New York and Oxford Universities, Ali broke new ground in the early ’90s with his research on the evolution of walait il faquih (Islamist political thought) and its diverse interpretations and relationship to political resistance movements from North Africa and the Middle East to Pakistan and India. This focus evolved to shape the social and political underpinnings of the Arab Spring movements and the ongoing international geopolitical dynamics that continue to impact contemporary Middle East.