Key Commentators
Around the world leading intellects have voiced their concern over the policies of the Apartheid State of Israel,
and the facts leading to Apartheid Israel's creation.
Here are but a few of those who have not faulted in their quest to demand justice for the Palestinians in the face of adversity.
Noam Chomsky
This is a list of guest speakers that AFOPA has been honored to have. The list includes prominent Israeli and Palestinian speakers, Palestinian and Jewish Americans all committed to trying to solve the Palestinian Israel conflict.
We are particularly proud of the success and world wide respect that the Edward Said Memorial Lectures have attracted.
Edward Said
University of Adelaide lecture, October 2010
A Jewish American former Fulbright scholar, award-winning lecturer, granddaughter of Holocaust refugees,
and recent guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Book: Witness in Palestine.
Web page: http://www.annainthemiddleeast.com/
The Sixth Edward Said Memorial Lecture, University of Adelaide 9 October 2010
The Edward Said Memorial Lecture is a University of Adelaide annual public lecture to honour the memory of a path-breaking scholar, courageous advocate, passionate critic and an unfailing humanist, the late Edward Said. The lecture was proposed by the Australian Friends of Palestine Association who are its proud sponsor.
Tariq Ali is a British Pakistani historian, novelist, filmmaker, political campaigner, and commentator. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso and regularly contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books.
He is the author of several books, including Can Pakistan Survive?, The Death of a State (1991) , Pirates Of The Caribbean: Axis Of Hope (2006), Conversations with Edward Said (2005), Bush in Babylon (2003), and Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity (2002), A Banker for All Seasons (2007), The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power (2008), The Protocols of the Elders of Sodom (2009), Islam Quintet (2010) and Night of the Golden Butterfly (2010). Source: Wikipedia
Check out Tariq Ali's quotes and articles,plus other items at his website.
Audio downloads of lecture:
http://www.adelaide.edu.au/esml/transcripts/2010/
Lecture delivered by George Bisharat, Professor of Law – to commemorate Al Nakba
8 May at 5pm at the Bradley Forum
Level 5, 50 North Terrace (cnr Fenn Place and North Terrace), Adelaide, SA 5000 (The Hawke Centre)
George E. Bisharat was a trial lawyer for the Office of the Public Defender in San Francisco before joining the Hastings faculty of the University of California in 1991. Professor Bisharatstudied law, anthropology, and Middle East studies at Harvard and wrote a book about Palestinian lawyers working under Israeli military occupation in the West Bank. He writes frequently on law and politics in the Middle East, both for academic audiences and for major media outlets in the U.S. and abroad. Professor Bisharathas become a prominent commentator on the Middle East and the legal and human rights aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and his written commentaries have been widely published in the U.S. and international media in recent years. He was an outspoken critic of Israel's conduct during its 2006 war with Lebanon, and has been a frequent defender of the right of return of Palestinian refugees who were expelled or fled from their homes in 1948 during the creation of the State of Israel.
Professor Bisharathas also become one of an increasing number of prominent analysts and academics who have voiced support for the possibility a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and is currently working on a book addressing the legal aspects of the one-state solution. He has also come out in support of a boycott of Israel, arguing in a 2007 editorial published by the San Francisco Chronicle that a boycott was "both necessary and justified" by Israel's continued occupation of Palestinian Territories. He has argued in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times that Israel's actions in the 2008-2009 Israel-Palestine conflict over Gaza constitute war crimes.
(Information from the Hasting College of the Law website and Wikipedia)
The Fifth Edward Said Memorial Lecture, The University of Adelaide, 19th September 2009.
“From Occupation to Reconciliation”
Scholar, Author & Middle East Analyst
2009
Books: An Israeli in Palestine
Director of The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
The Fourth Edward Said Memorial Lecture, University of Adelaide, 11th October 2008
Books:
The Gaza Strip: the Political Economy of De-development (1995)
The Gaza Strip Survey(1986)
Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict(2007)
Between Extremism and Civism: Political Islam in Palestine(forthcoming)
Lecture in Adealide, May 2008
Palestinian American, co-founder of Electronic Intifada
Book : One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
This book explores the one state solution.
Electronic Intifada: http://electronicintifada.net/
The Third Edward Said Memorial Lecture, University of Adelaide, 6th October 2007.
Dr Karmi was born in Jerusalem and left Palestine for England in 1949.
Palestinian author and Middle East commentator
Books by Dr Karmi:
In Search of Fatima
A poignant and haunting autobiographical tale of her exile from Palestine.
Married to Another Man: Israel’s Dilemma in Palestine
This book explores the conflict and a one state solution.
Web site: http://www.karmi.org/
The Second Edward Said Memorial Lecture, University of Adelaide 7th October 2006.
Books by Professor Reinhart
Israel/Palestine: How to end the war of 1948
ISBN-10 1-58322-651-6
ISBN-13 978-1-58322-651-3
Publication Date Jul 2002
Nb of pages 288
Illustrations 1
Web page: http://www.let.uu.nl/uilots/Tanya.Reinhart/personal/
MS SIHAM ABU GHAZALEH
Anthropologist & Palestinian Costume Expert
18th November 2005 at German club
Seminar: This presentation examines the place of cloth,
costume and embroidery within the structure of
Palestinian society. Against the background of both
history and contemporary life, the functions and symbolic
meanings of cloth and embroidery are examined in order
to better understand diverse social, cultural,
environmental and political factors influencing Palestinian
national costume.
Speaker: Siham Abu-Ghazaleh is an experienced
organizer of exhibitions on diverse aspects of Palestinian
culture and human rights, who is committed to the
preservation of the Palestinian identity through national
dress and the provision of work for underprivileged
Palestinian women to ensure the education of their
children. She is currently head of the Palestinian Cultural
Society, Jordan.
For further information please contact:
Dr Michael Wilmore
michael.wilmore@adelaide.edu.au
Inaugural Edward Said Memorial Lecture, University of Adelaide 1st October 2005.
Books: