Prospects for a Palestinian State

Round table

When?

Tuesday 4 December 2012, 16.00 to 18.00

Where?

University of Surrey, Lecture Theatre G

Open to:

Alumni, Staff, Students

Speaker:

Professor Bassem Ezbidi, Birzeit University; Ina’am R. Al Obaidi, Birzeit University; Professor Mkhaimar Abusada, Al-Azhar University, Gaza

Admission price:

Free. Please register.

Despite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s prediction that the November 2012 Palestinian bid to achieve the status of non-member state at the United Nations would destabilise the region, there has been little to see in terms of consequences or effects of the Palestinian bid to become the 194^th state, albeit with no voting rights. In this Round Table, the panel assess the internal and external politics that shape the prospects of Palestinian statehood, and assess future directions for peace in the region.

PANELISTS:

Professor Bassem Ezbidi, Birzeit University

Ina’am R. Al Obaidi, Birzeit University

Professor Mkhaimar Abusada, Al-Azhar University, Gaza

BIOGRAPHIES

Professor Bassem Ezbid, Professor of Political Science, Birzeit University. Together with Inge Admusen, Professor Ezbidi is author of “Palestinian National Authority and the Future of State Formation” in Mushtq Khan State Formation in Palestine: Viability and Governance during a Social Transformation. Routledge, 2004 and with Are Knudsen, ‘Hamas and Palestinian Statehood’ in Jamil Hilal, Where Now for Palestine? The Demise of the Two State Solution. Zed, 2007.

Ina’am R. Al Obaidi, lecturer and former Chair person at the Media department, Birzeit University, and Media consultant for several projects.

Professor Mkhaimar Abusada, Associate Professor of Political Science, Al-Azhar University, Gaza has written and spoken widely about Palestinian politics and the pressures facing Gaza.

This is a FREE event, but registration is required.

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This event is supported by the British Council and the British Academy.