Israeli Apartheid Week
Feb. 11th - 16th, 2008

Monday February 11th

Introducing Israeli Apartheid Week

Linda Tabar

PhD Candidate in the Politics and International Studies Department at SOAS. Her research focuses on Palestinian memory, identity and anti-colonial nationalism’s encounter violence, dispossession and the hierarchal ordering mechanism of modernity. She also co-authored a study for Muwatin- the Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy, on the transformation of Palestinian NGOs under the Oslo donor aid regime.

Excluded from Within: The Right to Health in the Negev Desert

Rochama Marton

Psychiatrist, feminist and human rights activist, founder and President of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR). Author of numerous papers on psychiatry, human rights and political-psychiatric analysis, and co-edited Torture: Human Rights, Medical Ethics and the Case of Israel. Recipient of several peace and human rights awards.

Chair: tbc

6. 15pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre
SOAS - School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG

Wednesday February 13th

Chicago: Everything that Happened, Happened here First

Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin

Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin are a photographic team based in London. Together they have produced five photographic books including Mr Mkhize’s Portrait (2004) which documented South Africa ten years after apartheid and Chicago (2006), an exploration of contemporary Israel. They are the recipients of numerous awards for their work.

Chair: tbc

6. 15pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre
SOAS - School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG

Thursday February 14th

Media and Normalising Israeli Apartheid

The Story of the “Israeli-Palestinian Conflict“ According to the Main Media in Israel

Yizhar Be’er

Executive Director of Keshev - The Center for the Protection of Democracy in Israel, former executive director of B’Tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, and Haaretz correspondent for the Palestinian occupied territories during the first Palestinian Intifada.

Images of Palestinian Citizens in Israeli Media

Haneen Zoubi

General Director of I’lam - Media Center for Arab Palestinians in Israel. Political and feminist activist, and contributor to various Arab newspapers on feminist-national emancipation, Israeli media policy and regulations.

European Media: Complicity and “Neutrality“

Dina Matar

Lecturer in Arab media and International Political Communication at SOAS, and was a foreign correspondent and editor mostly covering the Middle East, Europe and Africa. She is co-editor and co-founder of the forthcoming “The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication“ and is researching and writing a book on Palestinian collective memory.

Chair: Eyal Sivan

Israeli Film-maker based in London. A Reader (Associate Professor) in Media at the School of Social Sciences at the University of East London (UEL). Producer, essayist and editor, and directed over ten full length political documentaries of which he received a number of prestigious awards, his films include: Aqabat Jaber-Passing Through (1987), Izkor-Salves of Memory 1990), The Specialist (1999), Route 181, Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel (2003) I Love You All (2004) Citizens K (2007).

6. 15pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre
SOAS - School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG

Saturday February 16th
Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House,
London School of Economics,
Aldwych, London WC2A

(note venue changed)

Session One
11:30 - 13:00

Palestinian Nation under Apartheid

Zionism and Violence: The dynamics of Israeli War Crimes

Nadim Rouhana

Founding Director of Mada el-Carmel: Arab Centre for Applied Social Research, Professor of Conflict Studies, George Mason University, author of Palestinian Citizens in an Ethnic Jewish State: Identities in Conflict (1997) and numerous papers on collective identity, multiethnic states, democratic citizenship, and Palestinians in Israel.

Semitism and the Palestinians

Joseph Massad

Associated Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History, Columbia University, author of Colonial Effects: The Making of National Identity in Jordan (2001), and The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians (2006), Desiring Arabs (2007) and numerous articles on Palestinian identity and Zionism.

Chair: Martha Mundy

Specialist at the LSE in the anthropology of the Arab World whose research has concerned anthropology of law and the state, the comparative sociology of agrarian systems, and the anthropology of kinship and family.

Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00

Session Two
14:00- 15:30

Law as mechanism of violence

The Palestinian Right of Return and the Israeli Law of Return

Susan Akram

Professor at Boston University School of Law. Taught at Al-Quds University and researched legal issues relating to the Palestinian refugee question. Her work focuses on legal issues concerning Palestinian refugees, refugees in the Arab/Muslim world, US domestic civil and immigration rights, and post-September 11 immigration and the ‘war on terrorism’.

Apartheid: Visible and Invisible

Ra’ef Zreik

Teaches in Tel Aviv and Haifa Law Schools in the fields of legal and political theory. Lawyer specialising in the fields of land law, planning, and media law. A political activist, was involved in establishing several NGO’s dealing with civil rights issues.

Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00

Session Three
16:00 - 17:30

Resisting Apartheid: Strategies, Struggles, Solutions

Europe and the UK: Supporting the Struggle

Jonathan Rosenhead

Jonathan Rosenhead is Emeritus Professor at the LSE and member of the committee of BRICUP (British Committee for Universities of Palestine) an organisation of UK based academics, set up in response to the Palestinian Call for Academic Boycott.

Rebuilding the National Struggle

Jamal Zahalka

Member of Knesset and head of the Democratic National Assembly Parliamentary group. Founder and former director of Ahali-Center for Community Development. Political analyst with expertise in Palestinian and Israeli societies and politics. He contributes weekly to newspaper and news organisations.

Chair: John Chalcraft

Lecturer in the History and Politics of Empire/Imperialism at the LSE. Research focuses on history from below in the modern Middle East. His work also tackles broader issues in post-materialist labour history, subaltern studies and the study of hegemony and counter-hegemony.

SOAS - School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
SOAS Palestine Society
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square, London
WC1H 0XG

palsoc@soas.ac.uk

www.palestinesociety.org