Sun 28 Mar 2010 3pm
Live Music: Khyam Allami & Andrea Piccioni + Cigdem Aslan Quartet @ The Green Note
The Green Note
106 Parkway
Camden
London NW1 7AN
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Wed 24 Mar 2010 6.30pm
KCL, UCL, LSE Arabic societies & SOAS Middle Eastern society invite you to
Charity Boat Party: Under the Stars
DJ Stevie, London's top middle eastern dj-originally from Palestine:
http://www.eastwestsounds.co.uk
***ALL PROCEEDS WILL GO TOWARDS PALESTINE***
DRESS CODE: Smart/Black tie
Temple Pier
Victoria Embankment
London WC2R 2PN
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Mon 22 Mar 2010 7pm
SOAS Palestine Society Presents:
Book Launch: Behind the Wall - Life, Love and Struggle in Palestine by Rich Wiles
KLT (SOAS)
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Sun 21 Mar 2010 4pm
Documentary Film Screening: Budrus
In English and Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles
Dir: Julia Bacha, Running time: 78 mins
http://www.budrusthemovie.com
Followed by Q&A with the director Julia Bacha
Institute of Contemporary Arts
ICA Cinema 1
The Mall
London SW1Y 5AH
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Sun 21 Mar 2010 3pm
Jews for Justice for Palestinians & ICAHD UK invite you to a
A Conversation with Jeff Halper: The Problems of a Peacenik in Israel: Attacking the messenger
Many Jews are concerned about where Israel is going. The government arrests Israeli activists and threatens to cut off the funding stream of critical organisations that have also won respect from the international community. It is hard to see how this conforms to Israel's boast that it is 'the only democracy in the Middle East'.
JEFF HALPER from the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, will report first hand on the present precarious situation and give some pointers as to the future
Contact: Pat Price-Tomes
info@icahduk.org
The Montagu Centre
West Central Liberal Synagogue
21 Maple Street
London W1T 4BE
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Sat 20 Mar 2010 6.30pm
14th Human Rights Watch Film Festival at Curzon Soho, featuring award- winning films from 20 countries and post-screening discussions with the filmmakers
UK Film Premiere: Budrus
In English and Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles
Dir: Julia Bacha, Running time: 78 mins
http://www.budrusthemovie.com
Followed by Q&A with the director Julia Bacha.
A rousing film about one Palestinian village that tells a much bigger story about what is possible in the Middle East, Budrus introduces us to Ayed Morrar - an unlikely Palestinian community organiser - who unites both Palestinians and Israelis to save his village from the wall. An action-filled documentary, Budrus inspires and challenges us to consider what is possible when people come together for a cause.
Human Rights Watch’s most recent work on Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories focuses on Gaza and issues relating to civilians in armed conflict. To read this series of reports on Gaza and learn more about Human Rights Watch’s work on Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories please visit http://www.hrw.org/en/middle-eastn-africa/israel-and-occupied-territories
Curzon Soho
99 Shaftesbury Avenue
London W1D 5DY
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Sat 20 Mar 2010 2.30pm
Greenbelt, Action Palestine, Bricup, ICAHD UK invite you to:
Jeff Halper & Ghada Karmi Speaking Tour: "Fighting Israeli Apartheid: the case for BDS"
Speakers:
Jeff Halper, Director, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
Dr Ghada Karmi, Palestinian academic, British Committee for Universities for Palestine (Bricup)
Jeff Halper, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions' (ICAHD UK) Coordinator, will be joining forces with Dr Ghada Karmi, a leading Palestinian writer and academic, to discuss how boycotts, divestments and sanctions can allow the public to have a direct involvement to help achieve concrete solutions, similar to those achieved by the global action against South African apartheid.
Local sponsors: SOAS Palestine Society, Action Palestine – London Universities
Contact: Pat Price-Tomes
info@icahduk.org
SOAS
Main Building
G2
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Thu 18 Mar 2010 6.30pm
The A M Qattan Foundation would like to invite you to
Lecture: Why History Matters: International Law and the Origins of the Arab‐Israeli Conflict
Victor Kattan, the author of From Coexistence to Conquest, will be in conversation with Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, followed by a Q&A and book signing
The Mosaic Rooms
The A. M. Qattan Foundation
Tower House
226 Cromwell Road
London SW5 0SW
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Thu 18 Mar 2010 8pm
Talk: Hagai Segal in Conversation with Fahili Mohamed at London Jewish Cultural Centre
Mohammed Fahili is the Director of the Jewish Arab Community Centre in Acre. Fahili will be talking about his personal experiences of being an Israeli Arab living in Israel as well as the co-existence work that the Centre carries out.
Hagai Segal is an award-winning academic, consultant and analyst, specialising in the Middle East. In his academic role, Segal lectures in ‘Near and Middle-Eastern Politics’ at New York University In London. He is Scholar in Residence at the LJCC.
In association with the JCC.
London Jewish Cultural Centre
Ivy House
94-96 North End Road
London NW11 7SX
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Wed 17 Mar 2010 7pm
Lecture: The Wall and Human Rights (local perspective)
Speaker: Dr Aeyal Gross (Tel Aviv University; IALS; SOAS)
SOAS, G50
Russell Square
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Tue 16 Mar 2010 6.30pm
CAABU invites you to
Talk: The Future of Iraqi Politics After the National Elections
Committee Room 9
Houses of Parliament
Westminster
London, SW1A 0AA
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Wed 17 Mar 2010 6.30pm
The Communication and Media Research Institute and the Arab Media Centre invite you to
Lecture: Neoliberalising People & Places in Egyptian Media
Speaker: Dr Walter Armbrust
The Boardroom
University of Westminster
Regent Street Campus
309 Regent Street
London W1B 2UW
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Wed 17 Mar 2010 6.30pm
Jews for Justice for Palestinians invite you to
Talk: Israel’s offensive on Gaza and the Goldstone report
Room booked in the name of Baroness Northover
Committee room 4
House of Lords
Westminster, London
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Tue 16 Mar 2010 6pm
SOAS and LSE Palestine Societies Present:
Semites and the Abrahamic: Notes on Edward Said and Jacques Derrida
Speaker: Prof Joseph Massad
Chair: Sumantra Bose, LSE
LSE
Clement House
Room D402
Aldwych
London WC2A 2AE
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Mon 15 Mar 2010 7pm
Film Screening: Tea on the Axis of Evil
New film about real life in Syria + Q & A with the Directo
Dir: Jean Marie Offenbacher, U.S.A., July 2008
St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace
78 Bishopsgate
London, EC2N 4AG
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Mon 15 Mar 2010 6.30pm
British-Arab Exchanges and KF Iraq request the pleasure of your company at a
Reception and panel discussion on Britain and Iraq: A Tumultuous Shared History
With Iraq experts including Christopher Prentice (former British ambassador to Iraq), Ahmed Mehdi (International Institute for Strategic Studies), Qais Hamza (Iraqi economist),
Nick Krohley (Kings College) and James Mather (author, chair)
RSVP to Rachel on info@bax.org.uk
LSE
Clement House
Room D202
Aldwych
London WC2A 2AE
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Mon 15 Mar 2010 6pm
Public Launch: JNews - Alternative Jewish Perspectives on Israel-Palestine
JNews is an exciting new media project that aims to give fresh perspectives on issues relating to social justice, human rights and peace in Israel-Palestine. Initiated by a group of concerned Jews, JNews is a source of critical news and comment, offering the British public original insights into one of the most divisive topics in the world today.
Institute for Jewish Policy Research
Free Word Centre
60 Farringdon Road
London EC1R 3GA
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Sat 13 Mar 2010 1pm
Syrian Professional Women's Society (UK) has the pleasure to invite you to
Sypro's launch anniversary celebration
A networking lunch to celebrate, in addition to its launch anniversary, International Women's Day and Mother's Day. Includes pre-lunch drinks and a 3 course meal where members will have the opportunity to share their achievements in 2009.
Hilton London Metropole
225 Edgeware Road
London W2 1JU
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Thu 11 Mar 2010 7.30pm
Lewisham Peace Justice Solidarity presents Film Season at Café Crema, New Cross
Film screening: Jerusalem East Side Story
Film showing how Palestinians are being systematically driven from Jerusalem.
Followed by Q&A with a member of Viva Palestina Gaza aid convoy
www.cafecremaevents.co.uk
Cafe Crema
306 New Cross Road
London SE14 6AF
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Thu 11 Mar 2010 6pm
Day 7 - Israeli Apartheid Week - Film Screening Yizkor: Slaves of Memory
Director: Eyal Sivan, 1991
Followed by a Q&A with the director
IZKOR, is a portrait of the Israeli society that has never been shown before, thirty days in the life of a state that lives to the rhythm of its memory. This award-winning film puts forward a passionate and severe analysis of the Hebrew state.
LSE
Clement House
Room D702
Aldwych
London WC2A 2AE
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Wed 10 Mar 2010 7pm
Arab Media Watch & the Iraqi Youth Foundation invite you to
Book launch: Dreaming of Baghdad
Speaker: Haifa Zangana - author, Arab Media Watch adviser
Chair: Dr Wen-Chin Ouyang - School of Oriental and African Studies
Arab British Chamber of Commerce
43 Upper Grosvenor Street
Park Lane
London W1K 2NJ
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Wed 10 Mar 2010 7pm
Opposing Apartheid: Palestine and the Experience of South Africa
Ronnie Kasrils, South African anti-apartheid campaigner and former Government minister
Ilan Pappe, Israeli Academic, University of Exeter
The meeting is hosted by Jeremy Corbyn MP.
The struggle against Apartheid South Africa, and the massive international solidarity movement, is an inspiration for the campaign for freedom and justice for Palestinians, and for an end to Israel’s Apartheid policies.
This meeting will look at the growing movement to boycott Israeli goods, and discuss lessons on how the boycott of South African goods helped to create inexorable pressure on the Apartheid South African regime.
House of Commons
Parliament, Westminster
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Wed 10 Mar 2010 6.30pm
The 6th Birds Eye View Film Festival presents:
UK FILM PREMIERE: Amreeka
About the Director: Palestinian yet brought up in the US, writer director Cherien Dabis has made several shorts including Make A Wish (2006), and has travelled the film festivals of the world with them, picking up prestigious awards at Tribeca, Rotterdam and Chicago, to name three. Cherien also writes and produces for TV (The L-Word).
USA/Canada/Kuwait / 2008 / 97 min
Awards: Winner: FIPRESCI Prize, Cannes; Best Arabic Film, Cairo International Film Festival
“Amreeka glows with the truth and magic of everyday life and signals the arrival of an exciting, new directorial talent" Sundance Film Festival 2009
Institute of Contemporary Arts
ICA Cinema 2
The Mall
London SW1Y 5AH
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Tue 9 Mar 2010 6.30pm
The Worldwide Alumni Association of AUB & Naim Atallah, Chairman of Quartet Books request the pleasure of your company to
Talk: “Tyre Defies Alexander” by Nabil Saleh
On the occasion of the launch of his new book The Curse of Ezekiel
A.M. Qattan Foundation
The Mosaic Rooms
Tower House
226 Cromwell Road
London SW5 0SW
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Tue 9 Mar 2010 6pm
Day 6 - Israeli Apartheid Week: Democracy or Apartheid? Israel's regime of control and the Palestinians
Speaker:
Ben White - writer and freelance journalist, author of 'Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide' (Pluto Press, 2009).
LSE, U8 (Tower 1, access from Clements Inn)
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Fri 5 Mar 2010 7.30pm
Classical Music Concert: Palestinian Musicians at the Wigmore Hall
Ensemble 10/10, double winner of the 20th Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards in 2009, is the acclaimed contemporary ensemble of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
Wigmore Hall
36 Wigmore Street
London W1U 2BP
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Thu 4 Mar 2010 7pm
Day 4 - Israeli Apartheid Week: The Application of Universal Jurisdiction After the Cast Lead Offensive
Speaker:
Daniel Machover - Co-founder of Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights in 1988
Machover actively pursues potential legal remedies in the UK and EU for Palestinian victims of Israeli human rights abuses
SOAS, Room B102
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Thu 4 Mar 2010 6.30pm
An Evening with the Women of East Jerusalem
The evening will be a tremendous opportunity for meeting Hiyam Aleyan, I'temad Wahbeh and Layla Sharif, residents of Beit Safafa and of the Shu'fat Refugee Camp respectively who will share with some of the realities of life in East Jerusalem. Dr Anisseh Van Engeland, Reader in International Law, at the University of Bedfordshire School of Law, will provide us with a legal account of East Jerusalems status under International Law.
Maramia Cafe
48 Golborne Road
London W10 5PR
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Wed 3 Mar 2010 7pm
Day 3 - Israeli Apartheid Week: Apartheid Israel and the Land Question
Speakers:
Salah Mohsen - community organiser and an activist for the rights of the Palestinian citizens of Israel , a member of the General Council of the National Democratic Alliance
Nidal Rafa - TV producer and journalist based in Jerusalem , sits on the boards of the English-language publication This Week in Palestine, and the al-Hosh gallery of Palestinian art in Jerusalem.
SOAS, Room G50
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Tue 2 Mar 2010 6.30pm
Day 2 - Israeli Apartheid Week: Stop the Wall!
Speakers:
Taysir Arbasi - Former olive farmer and project director of Zaytoun, Palestine
Michael Warschawski - Alternative Information Centre, a joint Palestinian-Israeli research group
Yasmin Khan - War on Want
University College London
Robert Building
Room 309
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