In June this year the World Bank published a report, Benchmarking Governance as a Tool for Promoting Change: 100 Universities in MENA Paving the Way, which measures the governance structures of 100 universities in the Middle East and North Africa, or Mena, region. Public and private higher education institutions in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq were surveyed.
the african community has extended families who live in jericho and other areas of the west bank and gaza. the community traces its background through its oldest members to moslem pilgrims who came to palestine from chad and western sudan generations ago.
traditional values and and customs are meeting more modern behaviors within one generation as members of the african palestinian community make new ties to africa and to other africans in israel and palestine.
the african quarter abuts the great wall of the haram al sharif. seventy or eighty families live in apartments on both sides of a major access street that leads to the dome of the rock and the al aqsa mosque. These apartments are made in and around a four