NYU STUDENTS FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE
Present their First Workshop:

Oslo’s Non-Constituency: Refugees and the Question of Bi-Nationalism

Date: Tuesday, February 20, 2001
Time: 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Place: Ettinghausen Library, Kevorkian Building
50 Washington Square South (entrance on Sullivan)

SPEAKERS

SALIM TAMARI (Visiting Professor at NYU) —Palestinian sociologist; director of the Institute of Jerusalem Studies; former coordinator of the Palestinian working group on refugees to the multilateral negotiations. Among his publications an edited volume, Jerusalem 1948: The Arab Neighborhoods and their Fate in the War; and a forthcoming book on refugee archives, Reinterpreting the Record.

ELIAS KHOURI (Visiting Professor at NYU) — Lebanese intellectual and author; his recent novel Bab al-Shams is a fictional narrative based on extensive ethnographic work in the refugee camps of Lebanon, offering deep insights into questions of survival, struggle, memory, and political identity.

SAMERA ESMEIR (Ph.D. Candidate at NYU) — Palestinian lawyer and activist; worked extensively on questions of “residency” for Palestinians in Jerusalem, and “citizenship” for Palestinians inside the 1948 borders; Editor, Adalah's Review, a legal, political, social, cultural quarterly published in Arabic, Hebrew, and English by Adalah, The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel.

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