 In 2003 , Haidar Abdel @-@ Shafi , Ibrahim <unk> , Mustafa Barghouti , and Said established Al @-@ <unk> ( The Palestinian National Initiative ) , headed by Dr. Mustafa Barghouti , a third @-@ party reformist , democratic party meant to be an alternative to the usual two @-@ party politics of Palestine . As a political party , the ideology of Al @-@ <unk> is specifically an alternative to the extremist politics of the social @-@ democratic Fatah and the Islamist Hamas ( Islamic Resistance Movement ) . Said 's founding of the group , as well as his other international political activities concerning Palestine , were noticed by the U.S. government ; in 2006 , the anthropologist David Price obtained 147 pages of the 283 @-@ page political dossier that the FBI had compiled on Said , begun in 1971 , four years into his career as a public intellectual active in U.S. politics . 
