Thursday, August 18, 2011

Birzeit University Conference: Gaza – Palestine / Out of the Margins

The conference aims to encourage reflection on the situation in Palestine; more particularly on the status of Gaza, thereby bridging a research gap clearly perceived by everyone interested in Palestinian public affairs and concerned about the increasing marginalization of Gaza.

Birzeit University has always sought to encourage sound scientific research on Palestine, as part of its effort to have a leading role nationally, regionally and internationally.

Our reflection on Gaza is not thinking about the other, but about the self. It is reflecting on the Palestinian identity, though, according to our late great poet, Mahmoud Darwish, it is an identity “under construction”, for “identity is what we bequeath, not what we inherit; what we invent, not what we remember.”

Full Report - 259 Pages
http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Full_Report_2126.pdf

Filippo Grandi: Against all Odds - Advancing Human Development in Gaza

Sara Roy: A Land Diminished: Reflections on Gaza’s Landscape

Helga Tawil-Souri: The Hi-Tech Enclosure of Gaza

Julie Peteet: A Fortress Country and a Gated Enclave: Locating the Palestinian Margin

Maha Samman Mansour: Israeli Colonial Contraction: The cases of the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip

Youssef Courbage: Gaza, an Ever Rebellious Demography?

Asem Khalil: The ‘Protection Gap’ and the Palestinian Refugees of the Gaza Strip

Clemens Messerschmid: Water in Gaza – Problems & Prospects

Jean-Baptiste Humbert: Archaeology and Heritage in Gaza

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