Posted by Omar Shweiki, Wednesday 14th February @ 5:38pm
For Freedom and for Justice: The Role of International Solidarity
Speakers: Professor Jacqueline Rose, Dr Karma Nabulsi
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: The Oxford Union, St Michael’s Street
Room: Goodman Library
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.
Posted by Omar Shweiki, Wednesday 14th February @ 5:35pm
Chair: Dr David Johnson
Speaker: Salim Vally
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Somerville College, Flora Anderson Hall
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.
Posted by Omar Shweiki, Wednesday 14th February @ 1:46am
Wednesday, February 14
Film Night: Route 181 Fragments of a Journey in Israel-Palestine
Introduction: Matteo Legrenzi
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> Time: 7:30 pm
> Location: Balliol College
> Room: Lecture Room 23
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
Posted by Omar Shweiki, Sunday 11th February @ 6:19pm
Israeli Apartheid Week
5th Week of Hilary Term. Monday the 12th to Friday the 16th of February
Monday, February 12
Palestinian Citizens of Israel: Racism and Marginalisation
Chair: Professor Avi Shlaim (Oxford University)
Speaker: Dr Jamal Zahalka (Member of Israeli Knesset)
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: The Oxford Union, St Michael’s Street
Room: Goodman Library
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
Tuesday, February 13
European Racism and its Magic Mirror: Israeli Apartheid
Chair: Professor Kamal Abu-Deeb
Speaker: Yitzhak Laor
Time: 7:30
Location: Wadham College
Room: Okinaga Room
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.
Wednesday, February 14
Film Night: Route 181 Fragments of a Journey in Israel-Palestine
Introduction: Matteo Legrenzi
Film: Route 101
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: TBA
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
Thursday, February 15
Apartheid in Israel and South Africa
Chair: Dr David Johnson
Speaker: Salim Vally
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Somerville College
Room: Flora Anderson Hall
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.
Friday, February 16
For Freedom and for Justice: The Role of International
Solidarity
Speakers: Professor Jacqueline Rose
Dr Karma Nabulsi
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: The Oxford Union, St Michael’s Street
Room: Goodman Library
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 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.
Posted by Omar Shweiki, Sunday 11th February @ 6:16pm
Palestinian Citizens of Israel: Racism and Marginalisation
Chair: Professor Avi Shlaim (Oxford University)
Speaker: Dr Jamal Zahalka (Member of Israeli Knesset)
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: The Oxford Union, St Michael’s Street
Room: Goodman Library
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
Posted by Omar Shweiki, Wednesday 29th November @ 2:20pm
Oxford University Arab Cultural Society
Proudly Invites You to its famous
End of Term Arabic Party @ the Bridge
So come, celebrate the end of Michaelmas
and shake it to the latest Arabic tunes!!!
When: Wednesday, November 29
Time: 10:00 pm
Where: VIP lounge @the Bridge
Price: £4
All Are Welcome
Posted by Omar Shweiki, Thursday 9th November @ 2:27pm
On the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Suez War…
Martin Woollacott, distinguished correspondent and former foreign news editor at the Guardian speaks to Professor Avi Shlaim about the Suez and Iraq wars and the striking parallels between them.
Tony Blair and George Bush’s authority is increasingly threatened by the blowback from their venture in the Arab world. In this context, the relevance of the Suez crisis is particularly evident.
Join us as we discuss the painful lessons of the past and prospects for the future.
Martin Woollacott is a Foreign Affairs commentator for the Guardian, having previously been their Foreign News editor for six years. In over forty years experience as a journalist he has won six awards, including the James Cameron Award for his coverage of Kurdistan in 1991, and was nominated International Reporter of the Year for his coverage of the Vietnam war in 1975. He is the author of After Suez: Adrift in the American Century.
Avi Shlaim is Professorial Fellow and Professor of International Relations at St Antony’s College, Oxford. He is a recognised authority 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.
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