Staff of the FES Jerusalem

Dr. Usama Antar
Project Manager, Gaza City

Dr. Usama Antar has served as project manager at the FES branch office in the Gaza Strip since 2005 and manages FES projects there. Before joining the FES Dr. Antar worked as a researcher and lecturer at the Al-Azhar and Al-Aqsa Universities in political science and media studies.

In 1999 he completed his first degree in political science from the Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster in Germany. His thesis was entitled "The EG/EU and the Palestinian Question".

In July of 2004 he received his PhD following his dissertation entitled "Requirements for a Viable Palestinian State." He speaks Arabic natively, German fluently and is proficient in English.