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This is a unique opportunity to hear a series of fantastic lectures from world-renowned experts on Palestine in the most beautiful surroundings. There will also be visits organised, for example, to Palestinian camps in Lebanon.
There are still places available.
The topics we intend to cover in this week of study, discussion and entertainment include:
The rise of Zionism
The establishment of the state of Israel - from Balfour to Naqba
Palestine in the 1930s
The history of Palestinian resistance - from Fatah to Hamas
The history of imperialism in the Middle East
Can the US and Israel ever be divorced?
The changing face of politics in the Middle East, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Turkey
The history of Arab nationalist resistance - Algeria
Nasser - the last great Arab nationalist?
The Palestinian economy
The future - one state or two states?
Organising solidarity for Palestine - lobbying, convoys, flotillas
Media: doing press releases, TV interviews, making leaflets, etc
The fantastic speakers already confirmed include:
George Galloway
Abdul Rahim Mourad - Minister and founder of the Lebanese International University (lecture will be in Arabic)
Dr Ali Fayad - Oxford trained political strategist for Hezbollah and Lebanese MP
Ziad Hafez - Lebanese author on Arab unity studies at the Lebanese University of Beirut
Reem Nimer - Wife of Abu Abbas and peace activist who lives in Lebanon
Vangelis Pissias - Greek Gaza Activist
Dr Daud Abdullah - The Muslim Council of Britain
Bülent Yildirim - Director of I.H.H who organised the Mavi Marmara
Norman Finklestein - American academic
and author books on the relationship of Israel to the United States
Ghada Karmi - fellow and lecturer at the Institute of Arab & Islamic studies at Exeter University
Ma'un Bashour of the Arab International Centre for Continuity and Solidarity
Yvonne Ridley - co-founder of Viva Palestina
Ramzy Baroud, Editor-in-Chief of PalestineChronicle.comand author of Searching Jenin: Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion and The Second Palestinian Intifada
Gabi Baramki - a major figure in the Palestinian resistance movement
Dr Azzam Tamimi - author of Rachid Ghannouchi, Democrat within Islamism and Hamas: A History from Within.
Trevor Mostyn – author of the novel The Girl from Katamunset in Mandate Palestine and in modern Israel/Palestine.
Please pass this on to all your friends. The more people who come out from England for the Summer University of Palestine the stronger the solidarity campaign with the Palestinian people can become. (Ends/)
