Oxford 2009

*** 5th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week 2009 ***
7th Week, 2nd-6th March

This year held in over 50 cities worldwide

Toronto - Johannesburg - New York - Jerusalem - London - Madrid - Pisa - San Francisco - Montreal - Caracas - Edinburgh - Qalqilya - Copenhagen - Bethlehem - Kingston - Birzeit - Chicago - Barcelona - Jenin

Each Night: 7.30pm, Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College

Monday: Ronnie Kasrils. Chair: Dr. David Johnson
"Apartheid and Resistance: A South African Perspective on Solidarity with Palestine"

Wednesday: Professor As'ad Abu Khalil (The Angry Arab)
"The Aggression on Gaza and the Anglo-American Media."

Thursday: Nimer Sultany. Chair: Professor Avi Shlaim (FBA)
"Between Oppression and Empowerment: Palestinian Israelis under Apartheid"

Friday: Hussam Khader, Dr. Karma Nabulsi, Professor Ilan Pappe.
"On Palestinian Unity"

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Ronnie Kasrils: Born into a Jewish family in 1938 in Johannesburg, Ronnie Kasrils went on to become a leading figure in the ANC and later a Minister in democratic South Africa. He joined the ANC in1960 after the Sharpeville massacre becoming a member of ANC's military wing at its inception in 1961 and later, chief of military intelligence.
He has been a member of the ANC national executive committee since 1987. He was appointed deputy Minister of Defence in South Africa's first democratic government (1994-99); Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry (1999-2004); Minister of Intelligence Services (2004-2008). His autobiography, "Armed & Dangerous", has been published by Heinneman.

Dr David Johnson, is University Lecturer in Comparative Education and Dean and Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. He was a renowned student leader during the South African struggle and was imprisoned on several occassions by the apartheid regime. Forced into exile, he escaped several attempts on his life, eventually moving to the UK. His most recent book is "The Changing Landscape of Education in Africa" (Oxford 2007).

As'ad AbuKhalil, is professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus and visiting professor at UC, Berkeley. He served as freelance Middle East consultant for NBC News and ABC News. He hosts the highly popular website angryarab.blogspot.com, home to incisive comment on politics, war, the Middle East, Arab poetry and art.

Avi Shlaim (FBA) is a renowned British-Israeli historian 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’.

Nimer Sultany is a Palestinian citizen of Israel and currently a doctoral candidate at Harvard Law School. He has worked as a human rights lawyer at the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and as the head of the political monitoring project at Mada al-Carmel (the Arab Centre for Applied Social Research). He is a contributor to the Guardian.

Hussam Khader is one of the most prominent Palestinian leaders and an elected member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). He is one of the highest profile former political prisoners, imprisoned by Israel in March 2003 and released in August 2008.

Dr Karma Nabulsi is a lecturer in Politics and International Relations and Fellow in Politics at St Edmund Hall. From 1977 until 1990 she served as a PLO representative at the UN and in Beirut, Tunis and London. Dr Nabulsi has also been a specialist adviser to the UK parliamentary Commission of Inquiry on Palestinian Refugees and Director of the Civitas Project , a collective research initiated to record the voices and recommendations of Palestinian exile and refugee communities. Dr Nabulsi is a regular contributor to The Guardian and she is the author ofTraditions of War : Occupation, Resistance and the Law [OUP, 2005).

Professor Ilan Pappe is a leading historian of the Middle East , Chair of the Department of History at the University of Exeter and a co-director of the Exeter Center for Ethno-Political Studies. He was the academic head and founder of the Institute for Peace studies in Givat Haviva Israel (1992-2000) and Chair of the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian Studies in Haifa (2000-2008). He received his Dphil from St Antony’s College, Oxford and prior to his appointment in the UK, he taught Politics at the University of Haifa.