Dirasat: the Arab Center for Law and Policy

Dirasat was founded in late 2006. To date, we employ four regular staff members including a director, a development director, an office manager and a communications director. We also employ independent researchers. Our annual budget is currently between $200,000-$300,000 a year and our main funders are the Ford Foundation, the New Israel Fund, the EU Commission in Israel and the Heinrich Boell Foundation. We are a ‘think-and-do-tank’. As such, our main activities involve skills training, applied research, strategic planning and information dissemination. In addition to collaborating with researchers and other human rights organizations, we are currently working in close partnership with Haifa University, local Arab Authorities in Israel, and the Follow-Up Committee on Arab Education.