Events

In fall 2013, the Palestine Awareness Coalition posted four maps on Vancouver`s TransLink buses and SkyTrain stations entitled Disappearing Palestine. This ad campaign received wide attention & media coverage at both the provincial & national levels. Here Dr. Faris comments on the historical context of the maps.

Video from the 2013 Palestine Center Annual Conference. In a rich discussion, moderated by journalist George Hishmeh, Osamah Khalil and Manal Jamal discussed the past and present role of Arab states in the question of Palestine, the situation of Palestinians in Syria, and the future of the Palestinian national movement.

Video from the 2013 Palestine Center Annual Conference. Ali Abunimah and William Quandt, professor of politics at the University of Virginia, discussed the “peace process” and alternatives to it, including the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement and the growing attention to the “one-state solution.”

From self-immolation to a region on fire, the past two months have brought forward transformational change in the region. What are the implications of these uprisings on other Arab states? How does this change relations between the Arab states and between them and the United States? How does this change relations between the Arab states and the United States? Do the ongoing uprisings change the way we think of the Palestine question? All of these questions and more will be addressed by a distinguished panel of guests in our discussion.

Nadia Hijab, with Michele Dunne and Daniel Levy, comments on the expiration of Israel's settlement freeze in September 2010 and its effect on the "peace process."