Oxford 2008 Schedule

Oxford, UK

Oxford University Arab Society Presents

THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK 2008 11-15 Feb (5th Week, Hilary Term)
Featuring: Mustafa Bargouthi, Avi Shlaim, Joseph Massad, Eyal Sivan, Daphna Baram, Haneen Zoubi, Kamal Abu-Deeb and Khaled Hroub

Monday, February 11

Film Presentation and Discussion with Israeli Director 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
Location: St Antony’s College, Nissan Lecture Theatre Time: 7:30 pm

Chair: Professor Avi Shlaim
Speaker: Dr. Mustafa Bargouthi

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

Speakers: Haneen Zoubi and Daphna Baram

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
Location: Wadham College, Old RefectoryTime: 4:00 pm

Speaker: Khaled Hroub

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

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

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 following the lecture.