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Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Director: Carlos Prieto del Campo (Universidad Nómada)
Secretary: Raúl Sánchez Cedillo (Universidad Nómada)
Organizers: Universidad Nómada & Fundación por la Europa de los Ciudadanos (IU)
Sponsor: Fundación por la Europa de los Ciudadanos (IU)

Monday, 2 July

Theme: Re-imagining the conflict

9:00 h. Opening of the course by Carlos Berzosa, rector of the UCM, Pedro Chaves Giraldo, Fundación por la Europa de los Ciudadanos (IU) and Carlos Prieto del Campo, Universidad Nómada.

10:00 h. First panel:
Constructing “new histories” of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: Zionism, the Nakba, and origins of the Jewish State

Presenters: Haim Bresheeth, Ghazi Falah, Ilan Pappe

12:00 h. Second panel:
Past and potential trajectories in Palestinian nationalism: class, party politics, generations, gender, and identity in political-historical perspective

Presenters: Azmi Bishara, Islah Jad, Joseph Massad, Pedro Martínez Montávez, Gema Martín Múñoz

17.00 h. Round table:
Challenges to constructing a new collective narrative toward a new future for Palestine/Israel

Discussants: Naseer Aruri, Oren Ben-Dor, Jonathan Cook, Leila Farsakh

Tuesday, 3 July

Theme: Rethinking geography and nation

10:00 h First panel:
Facts on the Ground: limits and possibilities for two- and one-state solutions in Palestine/Israel

Presenters: Omar Barghouti, Ghazi Falah, Leila Farsakh

12.00 h. Second panel:
Political groupings in a shared state: religion, ethnicity, and diaspora

Presenters: Ali Abunimah, Steven Friedman, Islah Jad

17:00 h. Round table:
Possibilities and central challenges to developing a new political geography in Palestine/Israel

Discussants: Haim Bresheeth, Jonathan Cook, As’ad Ghanem, Ilan Pappe, Virginia Tilley

Wednesday, 4 July

Theme: Challenges for law and justice

10:00 h. First panel:
Domestic law and justice: Basic Law, group rights, and democracy in Israel

Presenters: Oren Ben-Dor, Jonathan Cook As’ad Ghanem, Antonio Vercher Noguera

12.00 h. Second panel:
International law and justice: diplomacy, international security, and regional dynamics

Presenters: Naseer Aruri, Michael Tarazi, Virginia Tilley, Rafael Escudero Alday

17:00 h. Round table:
The dialectic between local and international tensions: possibilities and risks

Discussants: Azmi Bishara, Ghazi Falah, Steven Friedman, Isaías Barreñada Bajo, George Bisharat

Thursday, 5 July

Theme: Ways forward

10:00 h. First panel
The politics of unification: unitary, binationalism, consociationalism, others

Presenters: Azmi Bishara, As’ad Ghanem, Ilan Pappe

12.00 h. Second panel:
Transcending trauma and finding reconciliation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict

Presenters: Ali Abunimah, Haim Bresheeth, Steven Friedman

17.00 h. Round table:
Integrating a new nation-state: the art of the possible

Discussants: Omar Barghouti, Oren Ben-Dor, Islah Jad, Joseph Massad, Michael Tarazi

Friday, 6 July

Theme: Putting ideas into action

10:00 h. First panel
Building toward a one state solution: social movements, economy/labour, political parties, & diplomacy

Presenters: Naseer Aruri, Omar Barghouti, Leila Farsakh, Joseph Massad, Michael Tarazi

12:00 h. Round table
Creating a new future for Palestine and Israel: a democratic and non-confessional state for all its citizens

Panel: Ali Abunimah, Azmi Bishara, Leila Farsakh, Haim Bresheeth, Ilan Pappe, Omar Barghouti, Pedro Martínez Montávez, Carlos Prieto del Campo

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List of Participants

Ali Abunimah — leading Palestinian political activist, co-founder of the leading on-line analytical forum on Israel-Palestine, "Electronic Intifada", and author of many related studies and essays, and the book One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse (2006)

Dr. Naseer Aruri — Chancellor Professor (Emeritus) of Political Science, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, USA, author of Occupation: Israel over Palestine (1983), Palestine and the Palestinians: A Social and Political History (1997), (with Naseer Hasan Aruri) Revising Culture Reinventing Peace: The Influence of Edward W. Said (2000), Dishonest Broker: The Role of the United States in Palestine and Israel (2003) and other titles

Omar Barghouti — independent Palestinian researcher and human rights activist, choreographer with El-Funoun Palestinian Dance Troupe, founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)

Dr. Oren Ben-Dor —Lecturer of Legal and Political Philosophy, School of Law, Southampton University, UK, author of Constitutional Limits and Public Sphere (2000) and the forthcoming Thinking about Law: In Silence with Heidegger, and other works on law, ethnicity and politics, including numerous essays on the Palestine problem

Dr. Azmi Bishara — Knesset Member, co-founder and present head of the National Democratic Alliance (Balad) party in Israel, holds a PhD from Humboldt University (Berlin), formerly senior lecturer and head of the Philosophy Department at Bir-Zeit University and senior researcher at the Van-Leer Institute in Jerusalem.

Dr. Haim Bresheeth — Chair of Media and Cultural Studies, University of East London, film maker and film studies scholar, author of Palestine - A Profile of an Occupation, Introducing the Holocaust (2002), a special double-issue of Third Text, focussing on the representation of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, and many articles on film criticism, including “The Nakbah in Palestinian Recent Cinema,” “Telling the Stories of Heim and Heimat, Home and Exile: Recent Palestinian Films and the Iconic Parable of Invisible Palestine”

Dr. Ghazi Falah — Professor of Geography and Planning, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Akron (Ohio, US), author (with Caroline Nagel) of Geographies of Muslim Women: Gender, Religion, and Space (2005), Galilee and the Judaization Plans, guest editor of special issue, “Some Geographical Aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” (GeoJournal), author of The Forgotten Palestinians: Arab An Naqab 1906- 1986 and Patterns of Spontaneous Bedouin Settlement in Galilee (1983), and numerous articles, including “Geopolitics of ‘Enclavisation’ and the Demise of a Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” (Third World Quarterly, 2005).

Dr. Leila Farsakh — Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts-Boston, author of Palestinian Labor Migration to Israel: Labor, Land and Occupation (2005) and numerous scholarly articles, including “Independence, Cantons or Bantustans: Whither the Palestinian State?” (Middle East Journal, 2005), “The Political Economy of Agrarian Change in the West Bank and Gaza Strip” (European University Institute, 2004), “Palestinian Labor Flows to Israel: A Finished Story?” (Journal of Palestine Studies, 2002) and “The Viability of a Palestinian State in the West Bank and Gaza Strip” (The Electronic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 2001).

Dr. Steven Friedman — Senior Research Associate, IDASA–Institute for Democracy in South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa; former Wilson Fellow (DC), author of The Long Journey: South Africa’s Quest for a Negotiated Settlement (1993) and numerous scholarly articles and essays on South Africa’s transition to democracy, democratic theory and governance; also a scholar of Judaism

Dr. Islah Jad — Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies, founding member and Chair of the Women Studies Program at Birzeit University, member of the administrative committee of the Women’s Affairs Technical Committee, author of Fatal Equality: Islamists and Istishhadiyyat, and “From Salons to the Popular Committees: Palestinian Women, 1919-1989” (2007)

Dr. Joseph Massad — Associate Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History, Columbia University, author of Colonial Effects: The Making of National Identity in Jordan (2001) and The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians (2006) and numerous articles on Palestinian identity and Zionism

Dr. Ilan Pappe — Professor of History, University of Haifa, Israel, author of Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1947-51 (1994), The Israel/Palestine Question (1999), The History of Modern Palestine (2003), The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006) and many other titles on Israeli/ Palestinian history and politics

Dr. Virginia Tilley — Chief Research Specialist, Democracy and Governance Programme, Human Sciences Research Council in Pretoria, South Africa; formerly a professor of Political Science and International Relations; author of The One-State Solution: A Breakthrough for Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock (2005) and numerous related analytical essays

Jonathan Cook — journalist, prominent analyst and essayist on Israeli law and policies, author of Blood and Religion. The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State (2006).

As’ad Ghanem – principal researcher of the Haifa´s Sciences Scholl of the University of Sciences. Author of The Palestinian Regime. A Partial Democracy (2001) and innumerable articles on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

George Bisharat — Professor of Law at the University of California-Hastings, where he conducts the Criminal Practice Clinic and teaches Criminal Procedure, Law and Social Anthropology in Middle East Societies. He is author of Palestinian Lawyers and Israeli Rule: Law and Disorder in the West Bank (1989), and numerous related articles, including "Facts, Rights, and Remedies: Implementing International Law in the Israel/Palestine" (2005), "Facing Tyranny with Justice: Alternatives to War in the Confrontation with Iraq" (2003).

Michael Tarazi — Former legal assessor of the OLP negotiation department.

Antonio Vercher Noguera — Director of Public Prosecutions for the Environment and Urban Planning. Author of Antiterrorismo en Ulster y en País Vasco. Legislación y medidas [Antiterrorism in Ulster and the Basque Country: Legal Measures] (1991); La delincuencia urbanística [Criminality in Urban Planning] (2002); El derecho europeo medioambiental [European Environmental Law] (2005).

Pedro Martínez Montávez — Arabic Scholar. Professor emeritus at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. Author of Poesía árabe contemporánea [Contemporary Arabic Poetry) (1958); Poemas amorosos árabes [Arabic Love Poetry) (1965); Poetas palestinos de resistencia [Poets of the Palestinian Resistance] (1974); Ensayos marginales de arabismo [Marginal Essays in Arab Studies] (1977); El poema es Filistín. Palestina en la poesía árabe actual [The Poem is Filistin: Palestine in Contemporary Arabic Poetry] (1980); El Islam [Islam] (1981); Literatura árabe de hoy [Arabic Literature Today] (1990); La independencia árabe [Arab Independance] (coauthor, 1993); Pensando en la historia de los árabes [Thinking about the History of the Arabs] (1995) y La pretendida superioridad de Occidente y otros artículos [The Supposed Superiority of the West and Other Essays] (2006).

Gema Martín Muñoz — Arabic Scholar. Director of the Casa Arabe: International Institute of Arabic Studies and the Islamic World. Author of El Estado Árabe. Crisis de legitimidad y contestación islamista [The Arab State: Crisis of Legitimacy and the Islamist Response] (2000); Aprender a conocerse. Percepciones sociales y culturales entre España y Marruecos [Learn to Know Each Other: Social and Culture Perceptions Between Spain and Morocco] (2001); Irak. Un fracaso de Occidente, 1920-2003 [Iraq: A Failure of the West, 1920-2003] (2003) y Sistemas y procesos electorales en la política egipcia del siglo XX [Electoral Systems and Processes in Egyptian Politics in the 20th Century] (2004).

Isaías Barreñada Bajo — Director of Educational Programs and Publications for the Casa Arabe and the International Institute of Arabic Studies and the Islamic World. Author of the doctoral thesis Identidad y ciudadanía en el conflicto israelo-palestino. Los palestinos con ciudadanía israelí, parte del conflicto y excluidos del proceso de paz [Identity and Citizenship in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Palestinians with Israeli Citizenship, Part of the Conflict and Excluded from the Peace Process] (2005).

Rafael Escudero Alday — Professor of Political Philosophy at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Author of Los calificativos del positivismo jurídico. El debate sobre la incorporación de la moral [The Language of Legal Positivism: The Debate over the Incorporation of Moral Criteria] (2004) y Los derechos a la sombra del muro. Un castigo más para el pueblo palestino [Rights in the Shadow of the Wall: One Punishment More for the Palestinian People] (2006).

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