Islam in Our Times: A Determined Moslem Moderate Emerges from the Shadows (Mohammed Dajani‪)‬

Before announcing the launching of his Islamic moderate political initiative which he calls "Wasatia" in March 2007, Professor Mohammed Dajani has lived in the shadows of his country's politics, refraining from assuming any political position within the cadre of the Palestinian Authority. Between 1967 and 1975, he was an active Fatah leader calling for the destruction of Israel and the establishment of a Palestinian state on its rubbles. In 1975, he started his long journey in search for a homeland and identity that took him to England, the United States, Jordan, and eventually two decades later bringing him back to his final destination in Palestine, earning two doctorate degrees on the way and publishing numerous academic books and articles. As a technical advisor to the Palestinian Authority and professor of political science at Al-Quds University, Dajani kept his distance from the corrupt and autocratic political system that emerged in Palestine in the wake of the Oslo peace process. But over the past few months, he crept into the light as his country moves closer and closer to civil war having been divided into two mini-states, a radical Islamic entity in Gaza led by Hamas moving in the sphere of Iran, and a secular entity in the West Bank led by Fatah and influenced by the United States.