Monday, January 21st, 2008

*** THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED ***

Beginnings: The Balfour Declaration and the Mandate Years
Britain’s Responsibility in the Colonization of Palestine

Speaker: Prof. John Newsinger
Senior Lecturer in History, Bath Spa University and author of The Blood Never Dried: A People’s History of the British Empire

Chair: Prof. Charles Tripp
Professor of Politics, SOAS, Univ. of London

Time and Venue:
6pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre
SOAS - School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

UNRWA: Lessons Learnt and Future Challenges

Speaker: Ms. Angela Williams
Former director of UNRWA – Syria and former director of relief and social services

Chair: Dr. Chaloka Beyani
Senior Lecturer in Law, LSE, Univ. of London

Time and Venue:
6:30pm, Room D202 (Clement House)
LSE - The London School of Economics and Political Science,
Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Organized jointly with Federation of Student Islamic Societies (FOSIS)

Speaker: Prof. Norman Finkelstein
Author of Image & Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (1995); The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering (2000) and Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History (2005)

Chair: Dr. Robert Boyce, International History Department, LSE

Time and Venue:
6pm, Room U8 (Tower One)
LSE - The London School of Economics and Political Science,
Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE

** Due to the high demand for this event, please reserve your place at su.soc.palestine@lse.ac.uk to avoid any disappointment.

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Roundtable Discussion on the Rights of Palestinian Refugees and Prospective Solutions
(Hosted by LMEI, SOAS)

Speakers:
Dr. Catriona Drew
Lecturer in International Law, SOAS, Univ. of London

Prof. Michael Kagan
Senior Fellow in Human Rights Law, Dept. of Law, A.U.C., Cairo, Egypt

Dr. Ahmad Khorshid
Canadian-Palestinian Policy Analyst, Health Emergency Management, Ottawa, Canada

Dr. Shahira Samy
Jarvis Doctorow Junior Research Fellow in International Relations and Conflict Resolution in the Middle East / St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford

Chair: Prof. Guy Goodwin-Gill
Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Faculty of Law, Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford Univ., Oxford and author of The Refugee in International Law

Time and Venue:
6pm, Brunei Gallery
SOAS - School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG