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  Cambridge February 12 - 16  
 

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  Monday Feb 12
 

Lecture: "The Right of Return is the Road Map to Peace"
Speaker: Dr Karma Nabulsi
Location:Keynes Hall, King’s College
Time: 7pm

 

Dr Karma Nabulsi, Fellow in Politics at St Edmund Hall and University Lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University. Dr Nabulsi was a PLO representative from 1977-90, working at the United Nations, in Beirut, Tunis, and the United Kingdom. She was an advisory member of the Palestinian delegation to the peace talks in Washington from 1991-1993. She was the specialist advisor to the UK all-party parliamentary commission of inquiry on Palestinian refugees (and its report, Right of Return, 2000) and the specialist adviser to the House of Commons select committee's inquiry on development assistance and the occupied Palestinian territories. She is the author of Traditions of War: Occupation, Resistance and the Law and writes on the philosophy and ethics of war, European political history and theory and Palestinian history and politics.

 

 
  Tuesday Feb 13
 

Lecture: "Who Controls the Transboundary Flows? The Consequences of Israeli Hydro-Hegemony."
Speakers: Dr Mark Zeitoun
Location: Chetwynd Room, King’s College
Time: 7pm

 

Dr Mark Zeitoun, water engineer and researcher who has worked extensively in conflict and post-conflict zones throughout Africa and the Middle East. Based at the LSE Centre for Environment, he is currently leading a group of researchers exploring the role of power and transboundary waters - 'hydro-hegemony'

 

 

 
  Wednesday Feb 14
 

Video and Photo: "Joint Resistance: Israelis and Palestinians unite in struggle against the Wall."
Location: Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College
Time: 6pm

 

Video footage and photography exhibit by Anarchists Against the Wall, an Israeli organisation that has joined Palestinan non-violent struggle against the Separation Wall in the West Bank and against Israeli occupation more generally.

 

 
  Thursday Feb 15
 

Lecture: "International Solidarity: What can be done?"
Speakers:
Greg
Chair: Dr. David Johnson
Location: Keynes Hall, King’s College
Time: 7pm

 

Greg, a student of Cambridge University. Greg spent a month in the West Bank helping document and protect the lives of Palestinians in their daily struggle for access to education and land, which are frequently denied to them by Israeli soldiers and settlers. International observers can play a major part in helping to secure this access but it can be a frustrating experience and filled with huge quantities of tear gas. The talk will detail events in Hebron and Bilin over December 2006 and provide information about going to Palestine and helping the Palestinian non-violent resistance.

 

 
  Friday Feb 16
 

Lecture: "Apartheid in Israel and South Africa"
Speaker: Salim Vally
Location: Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College
Time: 7pm

 

Salim Vally, lecturer and senior researcher in the School of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and chairperson of the Palestine Solidarity Committee and the Anti-War Coalition. Mr. Vally has previously been an acting director of the Witwatersrand Education Policy Unit and a chairman of the Freedom of Expression Institute. He was a regional executive member of the high school South African Student's Movement (SASM) which played a pivotal role in the Uprising of 1976.