Israeli Apartheid Week 2008

THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK 2008

11-15 Feb (5th Week)

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Mustafa Bargouthi - Avi Shlaim – Joseph Massad – Eyal Sivan - Daphna Baram - 

Haneen Zoubi - Kamal Abu-Deeb -Khaled Hroub

MONDAY, February 11

Film Presentation and Discussion
with Israeli Director Eyal Sivan

Speaker: Eyal Sivan

Location: St Antony’s College, Nissan Lecture Theatre
Time: 7:30 pm

Renowned Israeli filmmaker Eyal Sivan will present
and discuss one of his most memorable documentaries.
“Izkor, Slaves of Memory” is a film based on one month
in the life of the Israeli State through the school
system. It starts in kindergarten at the beginning of
April and concludes on Independence Day right at the
end of April, in a High school. It powerfully charts
the construction of Israeli collective identity through
the education system, implicitly exploring the mechanisms
of justification, and the cultural roots, of Israel’s
racism towards the Palestinian people. Izkor won the
Prix Procirep & Mention Spéciale du Jury FIPA, 1991
and the 1991 Prix d’Investigation,Biennale Européenne
du Documentaire, Marseille.

Eyal Sivan is a distinguished Israeli director, producer,
and essayist. His films have won numerous prizes including
the Cinéma du Réel Prize at the Centre Pompidou, the Amsterdam
Golden Crown, the Mayor’s Prize at the International Documentary
Film Festival in Japan, the Grimm Gold prize in Germany and the
1st prize at the Festival des Droits de l’Homme in Paris. He is a
founder of Paris based production company Momento! and a lecturer
in Film Studies at the University of East London.

TUESDAY, February 12

Beyond Apartheid: The Path to Peace

Chair: Professor Avi Shlaim
Speaker: Dr. Mustafa Bargouthi

Location: St Antony’s College, Nissan Lecture Theatre
Time: 7:30 pm

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’; ‘The Iron Wall: Israel
and the Arab World’ and ‘The Lion of Jordan: The Life of
King Hussein in War and Peace’.

Mustafa Bargouthi is a prominent Palestinian political
and humanitarian figure. He is a member of the Palestinian
Legislative Council and the Secretary General of the
National Palestinian Intiative, al-Mubadara. He was runner
up in the 2005 Palestinian presidential elections, receiving
one fifth of the vote. He has played an important role in
furthering Palestinian internal dialogue, holding the post
of information minister in last year’s Palestinian unity
government. Dr Bargouthi is internationally renowned as
an advocate for justice and peace and was a delegate to
the Madrid Peace Conference in 1991. He is also a noted
civil society figure and President of the Union of
Palestinian Medical Relief Committees.

WEDNESDAY, February 13

Israeli Media and the Palestinian Citizens of Israel

Speakers: Haneen Zoubi and Daphna Baram

Location: Wadham College, Old Refectory
Time: 7:30 pm

Haneen Zoubi is the General Director of I’lam –
Media Center for Arab Palestinians in Israel.
A Palestinian citizen of Israel, she is a political
and feminist activist, and contributor to various
Arab newspapers on feminist-national emancipation,
Israeli media policy and regulations. She is an
expert on the Israeli media and on representations
of Palestinians in Israeli mass culture.

Daphna Baram is an Israeli writer and journalist
based in London. She was a Senior Associate Member
at St Antony’s College and a fellow of Oxford’s
Reuters Foundation Programme. She is a contributor
to numerous publications including the Guardian,
New Statesman, Independent, Jewish Quarterly,
Ha’aretzand Yediot. She began her career as a
human rights lawyer in the military courts in
the West Bank and Gaza and later worked as
a feature writer, commentator, news editor and
deputy editor in chief for the Jerusalem based
weekly Kol Ha’ir. She has several translations
to her credit including a Hebrew edition of The
Nuremberg Interviews. Her book ‘Disenchantment:
The Guardian and Israel’ has just been published
in paperback.

Copies of Daphna Baram’s ‘Disenchantment:
The Guardian and Israel’ will be available
for signing following the lecture and will
be sold at a discounted price.

THURSDAY, February 14

Gaza: The World’s Largest Prison
Speaker: Khaled Hroub

Location: Wadham College, Old Refectory
Time: 4:00 pm

Khaled Hroub is director of the Cambridge
Arab Media Project in association with the
Centre of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
at the University of Cambridge, where he
previously served as visiting scholar. He
has also worked for the Middle East Programme
of the International Institute of International
Studies in London. Mr. Hroub was a former host
of the weekly book review program, ‘Books and
Authors’, on Aljazeera.  A recognized expert
on Hamas,Palestinian politics, and Arab media,
his publications include the edited collection
‘New Media and Politics in the Arab World’; ‘Hamas:
Political Thought and Practice’; and ‘Hamas: A
Beginner’s Guide’. He is a columnist for the
Arab daily newspapers Al-Hayat, Al-Sharq,
Al-Ittihad, Al-Kahera, and Al-Ghad. He has also
written for the International Herald Tribune
and his writings have appeared in numerous academic
journals. Mr. Khroub is a member of Queens’College,
Cambridge.

FRIDAY, February 15

Semitism and the Palestinians

Chair: Professor Kamal Abu-Deeb
Speaker: Professor Joseph Massad

Location: St Antony’s College, Nissan Lecture Theatre
Time: 7:30 pm

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.

Joseph Massad is an Associate Professor of Modern Arab
Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University.
A leading scholar of Middle Eastern politics, history and
culture, he is the author of ‘Desiring Arabs’; ‘The Persistence
of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the
Palestinians’; and ‘Colonial Effects: The Making of National
Identity in Jordan’. He is a winner of the Middle East Studies
Association’s prestigious Malcolm Kerr Dissertation Award.

Copies of Professor Massad’s latest books will be available
for signing after the lecture.

 

Oxford University Arab Cultural Society Presents

 

Israeli Apartheid Week

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5^th Week of Hilary Term. Monday the 12^th to Friday the 16^th 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 theHebrew 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 181

Time: 7:30 pm

Location: Balliol College, 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

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 theSchool 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.

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The OUACS Committee would like to wish all members an enjoyable vacation, Merry Christmas, Eid Mubarak and a Happy New Year!

We look forward to seeing you in Hilary, for what promises to be another busy term for OUACS.

Suez and Iraq: Martin Woollacott in Conversation with Avi Shlaim

On the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Suez War 

Tuesday Nov 14, Week 6,  7:30 pm
at Goodman Library, The Oxford Union

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.