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Bisan Lecture Series – Daniel Pauly – The Fisheries of the Southern Mediterranean, from Morocco to Turkey (1950-2020)
The next Bisan Lecture webinar will take place on Wednesday, December 14th at 7pm Palestine time (6pm Central European Time, 12 noon US Estern time). We will have the pleasure to welcome Prof. Daniel Pauly (University of British Columbia) who will speak on The Fisheries of the Southern Mediterranean, from Morocco to Turkey (1950-2020). You can register for the event on Zoom here.
Israeli University Cancels Event for Arab Students Over Fear for ‘Public Wellbeing’
A month after canceling a performance by Arab singers due to fears for the ‘public’s wellbeing’ and ‘bureaucratic difficulties’, the administration at Ben-Gurion University banned parts of another event aimed at Arab students, leading to its cancelation. Students are convinced the administration is scared of ‘thugs from the right’
Middle East Scholars Announce 2022 Academic Freedom Award Recipients
Six Palestinian research and human rights organizations honored for their decades-long pursuit of academic freedom, courageous resilience, and contributions to the field of Middle East Studies. The Middle East Studies….
EU-Israel Police Deal Could Be Derailed After Objections to West Bank Data Sharing
Concerns that Europol data would be used in the West Bank has prompted the European Commission to return to the negotiating table – but this time, they will face Israel’s incoming far-right government
Netflix’s “Farha” and the Palestinian Right to Process Pain Through Art
The Jordanian film “Farha,” released this week on Netflix, tells the story of an individual tragedy that took place during the 1948 war to create the state of Israel — where Palestinians, who remember the event as the Nakba, or catastrophe, were expelled from their homes by the hundreds of thousands.
Israel and the Palestinian people
An institutionalised regime of domination and discrimination amounting to the crime of apartheid
The architecture community joins together to support Samia Henni after her Cornell AAP office was burglarized
In early September, the office of Cornell University Architecture, Art, and Planning (Cornell AAP) professor Samia Henni was broken into, vandalized, and looted. This week, architects and academics have rallied….
Al-Haq Takes Legal Action Against Defamation by Dutch Lobby Organisation CIDI
Today, on 28 November 2022, Al-Haq has taken legal action against the Center for Information and Documentation Israel (CIDI), a lobby organisation in the Netherlands. Based on a close review….
Al-Haq Launches Landmark Palestinian Coalition Report: ‘Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism’
On 29 November 2022, Al-Haq launched its inaugural coalition report titled: ‘Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism’. Together leading Palestinian civil society organisations, Al-Haq Law in the Service of….