Power, Scandal, and Politics: Hussein al-Sheikh’s Rise to the Top of the Palestinian Authority

Hussein al-Sheikh is on the brink of taking control of the Palestinian Authority after the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) approved Mahmoud Abbas’s nomination for al-Sheikh as deputy chairman of both the PLO Executive Committee and the Palestinian Authority.

This decision follows Abbas’s recommendation based on the PLO’s Central Council meeting earlier this week, a meeting that saw a boycott from major Palestinian factions, including the…