Mada al-Carmel - The Arab Center for Applied Social Research

National Network
Israel
Address

51 Allenby Street
P.O. Box 9132
31090
Haifa
Israel

Telephone
+972.4.855.2035
Fax
+972.4.852.5973
E-Mail
mada@mada-research.org
Website
http://www.mada-research.org/
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2000
Fields of Activity
  1. Democracy and community development
  2. Gender
  3. Human rights
General Information
MADA, which employs 2 full-time and 10 part-time staff, and other researchers, is governed by a General Assembly, an Executive Committee, and an Academic Committee. In 2007, MADA released The Haifa Declaration, a consensual statement that a large group of Palestinian intellectuals, academics, and activists from different fields and wide-ranging political viewpoints articulated, under MADA’s leadership, about their collective future and status in their homeland, the major challenges facing their society, their relationship with their people, nation, and the state of Israel. MADA regularly engages the public in its discourse through seminars and conferences such as its twopart seminar in 2008 - "Sixty Years Since the Nakba: Homeland as Exile: Loss, Alienation, and Forms of Resistance." MADA is proud to have received the support of: The Ford Foundation The European Commission International Development Research Institute (IDRC) CORDAID Open Society Institute The Welfare Association The A.M. Qattan Foundation Global Fund for Women New Israel Fund Women for Women’s Human Rights The British Embassy in Tel Aviv UNESCO
Mission and Objectives

MADA aims to enhance the human and national development of the Palestinians in Israel, advance the
cause of democratic citizenship, and become a hub of knowledge and critical thinking about equal citizenship and democracy.
MADA's objectives are to:
• Provide an institutional base to freely study the rights, needs, and collective future of the Palestinians in Israel and their relationship
with Israel, the Palestinian nation, and the Arab World
• Facilitate links with Israeli, Palestinian, and international academics, NGOs, activists, and political actors to formulate public policy proposals designed to improve the conditions of Palestinian citizens
• Generate new ways of thinking and discourses about Palestinian-Jewish relations
• Train a new generation of social scientists, particularly in new critical approaches, and attract local and international researchers to study the Palestinians in Israel
• Enrich theoretical perspectives and applied work on national identity, citizenship, and democracy by stimulating comparative research wtih like-minded institutes in other multiethnic states

Main Projects / Activities

Collective Rights Program
-The theory and policy concerning indigenous minorities and collective rights of the Palestinian minority in Israel.
Collective Rights and the Political Future Program
-The program is based on the Haifa Declaration and what has been achieved through it.
Political Monitoring Program
-Israeli political thought and practice have witnessed a major shift in recent years, particularly since the outbreak of the Palestinian Intifada and the mass protests of October 2000 within Israel.
Information Program
-Established in 2002 in an attempt to provide accurate information about Palestinians in Israel and to contextualize the information from the perspective of the indigenous Palestinian minority.
Historical Narrative Program
-The History Program at MADA is entitled, “Reframing the Historical Narrative of the Palestinians in Israel”.
Gender Studies Project
-This project stresses the urgency in establishing a gender project to study the status of Palestinian women in Israel and gender related issues.

Contact (1) Full Name
Dr. Nadim N. Rouhana
Head of the organisation
Dr. Nadim N. Rouhana
Contact (2) Full Name
Einas Odeh Haj