Program
Friday, September 20
Registration/Badge Collection
Location: Al Mirqab Ballroom Foyer
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Opening Remarks
Safwan Masri, Dean, Georgetown University in Qatar
Location: Al Mirqab Ballroom
1:00 – 1:15 PM
Opening Panel: Gaza Now
Location: Al Mirqab Ballroom
1:15 – 2:45 PM
Jehad Abusalim
Ghassan Abu-Sittah
Tareq Baconi
Noura Erakat
Diala Shamas
In Conversation with Safwan Masri
Break
2:45 – 3:00 PM
How Might Justice and Accountability Be Achieved?
Location: Al Mirqab Ballroom
3:00 – 4:30 PM
Wesam Ahmad
Seth Anziska
Saleh Hijazi
Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh
Raz Segal
Moderator: Noha Aboueldahab
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The World is Watching: Who Shapes the Story?
Location: Al Mirqab Ballroom
4:30 – 6:00 PM
Laila Al-Arian
Ahmed Hijazi
Wadah Khanfar
Mouin Rabbani
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin
Moderator: Ayman Mohyeldin
Film screening of The Night Won’t End
Location: Al Daibel
6:00 – 8:00 PM
Laila Al-Arian in conversation with Abdullah Al-Arian
Welcome Reception
Location: Al Daibel Lobby
8:00 PM
Experience Palestine Re-Imaged—a digital showcase on view throughout the day that brings Palestinian archival material to life, in collaboration with the Qatar Museums General Collection department – Al Mirqab Lobby
Saturday, September 21
Registration/Badge Collection
Location: Al Mirqab Ballroom Foyer
8:00 – 9:00 AM
The Palestinian Political Landscape: Imperatives for Renewal
Location: Al Mirqab Ballroom
9:00 – 10:45 AM
Zayne Abudaka
Mustafa Barghouti
Tamara Essayyad
Shawan Jabarin
Fadi Quran
Moderator: Ayman Mohyeldin
Break
10:45 -11:00 AM
Being Palestinian: An Enduring Identity
Location: Al Mirqab Ballroom
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Nadia Abu El-Haj
Nadim Bawalsa
Beshara Doumani
Safwan Masri
Moderator: Ayman Mohyeldin
Conference Lunch
Location: Al Mirqab Ballroom
12:30 – 2:00 PM
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Special Program
Thematic Roundtable Discussion
Location: Al Daibel
12:30 – 2:00 PM
The Diaspora: Mobilizing for Impact
Khaled Al-Hroub
Nadim Bawalsa
Wadie Said
Diala Shamas
Muna Sukhtian
Zeina Zaatari
Moderator: Nadya Sbaiti
Zionism: Ideological Shifts, Emerging Narratives
Location: Al Mirqab Ballroom
2:00 – 3:30 PM
Nadia Abu El-Haj
Leila Farsakh
Daniel Levy
Ilan Pappe
Moderator: Raz Segal
Parallel Sessions
3:30 – 5:00 PM
Intersectional Alliances and Solidarities
Location: Al Daibel
Noura Erakat
Saleh Hijazi
Sophie Richter-Devroe
Zeina Zaatari
Moderator: Sarah Gualtieri
Coalitions for Justice: Jewish and Palestinian Solidarity
Location: Al Mirqab Ballroom
Arielle Angel
Tareq Baconi
Fadi Quran
Simone Zimmerman
Moderator: Rebecca Vilkomerson
Break
5:00 – 5:15 PM
Global Infrastructures of Power and Disruption
Location: Al Mirqab Ballroom
5:15 – 6:45 PM
Leila Farsakh
Yara Hawari
Sherene Seikaly
Rebecca Vilkomerson
Moderator: Seth Anziska
Film screening of Israelism
Location: Al Daibel
6:00 – 8:00 PM
Simone Zimmerman in conversation with Tareq Baconi and Daniel Levy
Experience Palestine Re-Imaged—a digital showcase on view throughout the day that brings Palestinian archival material to life, in collaboration with the Qatar Museums General Collection department – Al Mirqab Lobby
Sunday, September 22
Registration/Badge Collection
Location: Al Mirqab Ballroom Foyer
8:00 – 9:00 AM
Livable Gaza: Return, Reconstruction, Rehabilitation
Location: Al Mirqab Ballroom
9:00 – 10:30 AM
Fida Adely
Rochelle Davis
Raja Khalidi
Issam Younis
Moderator: Tareq Baconi
Regional Actors and Geopolitical Dynamics
Location: Al Mirqab Ballroom
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Marwa Daoudy
Mehran Kamrava
Marc Lynch
Gerd Nonneman
Mouin Rabbani
Moderator: Nesrine Malik
Conference Lunch
Location: Al Mirqab Ballroom
12:00 – 1:15 PM
or
Special Program
Lunch Talk: Artistic Freedom of Expression and Palestine
Location: Al Daibel
12:00 – 1:15 PM
Omar Robert Hamilton in conversation with Nesrine Malik
Parallel Sessions
1:15 – 2:45 PM
Art as Resistance
Location: Al Daibel
Selma Dabbagh
Omar Robert Hamilton
Amer Shomali
Zeina Zaatari
Moderator: Sami Hermez
The Levantine Landscape
Location: Al Mirqab Ballroom
Ziad Abu-Rish
Bassam Haddad
Peter Harling
Yara Hawari
Marc Lynch
Moderator: Salim Tamari
Palestine and the Global South: Lessons from Anti-Colonial and Anti-Apartheid Struggles
Location: Al Mirqab Ballroom
2:45 – 4:30 PM
Muhannad Ayyash
Nader Hashemi
Ussama Makdisi
Nesrine Malik
Grace Naledi Pandor
Lana Tatour
Moderator: Ryan Grim
Break
4:30 – 4:45 PM
Decentering the Politics of Power: Student Protests and Youth Movements
Location: Al Mirqab Ballroom
4:45 – 6:15 PM
Nadia Abu El-Haj
Omar Shakir
Lana Tatour
Jennifer Zacharia
Moderator: Sarah Gualtieri
Closing Panel: Palestine Reimagined
Location: Al Mirqab Ballroom
6:15 – 7:30 PM
Mustafa Barghouti
Diana Buttu
Ussama Makdisi
Ilan Pappe
Sherene Seikaly
In Conversation with Safwan Masri
Closing Remarks
Safwan Masri, Dean, Georgetown University in Qatar
Location: Al Mirqab Ballroom
7:30 PM
Experience Palestine Re-Imaged—a digital showcase on view throughout the day that brings Palestinian archival material to life, in collaboration with the Qatar Museums General Collection department – Al Mirqab Lobby