Lecture: "Palestinian Citizens of Israel: Racism and Marginalisation"
Speakers: Dr Jamal Zahalka (Member of Israeli Knesset)
Chair:Professor Avi Shlaim (Oxford University)
Location:The Oxford Union, St Michael’s Street Room: Goodman Library
Time: 7:30 pm

Jamal Zahalka (MK) is a member of the National Democratic Assembly (Balad), the foremost secular Palestinian party in Israel. In 2003, he was elected to the Israeli Knesset. Dr. Zahalka is renowned for his civil rights work, demanding equal rights for Palestinian citizens and the transformation of Israel from a Jewish ethnocratic state to a democratic state of all its citizens. Despite facing numerous harassment campaigns by extremist Zionists over the past two decades, he continues to be a vocal member of the peace movement. Dr Zahalka holds a PhD in Pharmacology from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Avi Shlaim (FBA) is Professorial Fellow and Professor of International Relations at St Antony’s College, Oxford. He is a renowned author on the international politics of the Middle East and a winner of the WJM Mackenzie Book Prize and the David Watt Memorial Prize. His publications include War and Peace in the Middle East: A Concise History and The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World

Lecture: "European Racism and its Magic Mirror: Israeli Apartheid"
Speakers: Yitzhak Laor
Chair: Professor Kamal Abu-Deeb
Location:Wadham College Room: Okinaga Room
Time: 7:30pm

Yitzhak Laor is a distinguished Israeli poet, playwright and journalist. His political writings regularly appear in Haaretz and the London Review of Books. Laor has refused army service in the occupied areas. In the 1980s he wrote poetry condemning the war in Lebanon. In 1985, Israel censorship prevented the staging of his play “Ephraim Returns to the Arms,” and in 1990, the then prime minister Yitzhak Shamir refused to sign the Prime Minister's Prize for Poetry which had been awarded to Laor. Laor brought a petition to the Israeli Supreme Court against the Film and Play Censorship Board, which led to the cancellation of censorship of plays (but not of films). He is a signatory to the appeal for peace in Palestine which was issued by the International Parliament of Writers.
Kamal Abu-Deeb holds the chair of Arabic Studies at SOAS. A leading scholar in Arabic literary criticism and culture, he has written extensively on Arabic poetry and poetics and the critical discourse in the Arabic tradition. He is also a renowned poet and a leading translator. His Arabic translation of Edward Said’s Orientalism is considered to be a masterpiece of modern Arab writing. Professor Abu-Deeb has founded and taught Arabic programmes in many universities, including Oxford, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Yarmouk, Damascus and San’a.

Film Presentation: "Route 181 Fragments of a Journey in Israel-Palestine"
Introduction: Matteo Legrenzi
Location:Balliol College Room: Lecture Room 23
Time: 7:30pm

Matteo Legrenzi is a Lecturer at Cranfield University. His book “The GCC and the International Relations of the Gulf: Diplomacy, Security and Economy Co-ordination in a Changing Middle East” will be published by I.B. Tauris
Route 181 (North) is a cinematic journey through Palestine-Israel. Directors Michel Khleifi and Eyal Sivan trace a route based on the theoretical line presented in UN Resolution 181. A widely acclaimed collaboration between a Jewish and a Palestinian director that illuminates the realities on the ground
Duration: 85 minutes

Lecture: "Apartheid in Israel and South Africa"
Speakers:
Salim Vally
Chair: Dr. David Johnson
Location:Somerville College Room: Flora Anderson Hall
Time: 7:30pm

Salim Vally is a 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. He 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.
David Johnson is a lecturer in Comparative and International Education at the University of Oxford and a faculty fellow at St Antony’s College. He has conducted educational research and impact studies in numerous countries including South Africa.

Lecture: "For Freedom and for Justice: The Role of International Solidarity"
Speakers: Professor Jacqueline Rose, Dr Karma Nabulsi
Location:The Oxford Union, St Michael’s Street Room: Goodman Library
Time: 7:30pm

Jacqueline Rose (FBA) is a Professor at Queen Mary College, University of London. Her research focuses on modern subjectivity at the interface of literature, psychoanalysis and politics, as well as on the history and culture of South Africa and of Israel-Palestine. Her most recent publications are The Question of Zion, On Not Being Able to Sleep – psychoanalysis in the modern world and the novel Albertine
Karma Nabulsi is a Fellow in Politics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and University Lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University. She 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.