Palestine Unlocked Festival is a series of exciting talks being spread out over the course of three days. With reknowned speakers such as Dr Mustafa Barghouti, Dr Rita Giacaman, Karl Sabbagh, Sir Stephen Sedley and William Parry. See Timetable below >>>
SATURDAY 21 MAY
Attacks on Non-Violent Resistance to Illegal Military Occupation: The Reasons for the New Uprising
10AM – 12PM / St Antony’s College, 62 Woodstock Rd, OX2 6JF. Speaker: Dr Mustafa Barghouti, General Secretary, Palestine National Initiative (Mubadara), Ramallah, Palestine
Chair: Dr Avi Shlaim, Senior Research Fellow, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford.
Siege and Survival in Gaza: The Impact on Health and Human Rights. 2PM – 4PM / EP Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green Templeton College, 43 Woodstock Rd OX2 6HG
Speaker: Dr Rita Giacaman, Founding Director, Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, Palestine
Speaker: Miri Weingarten, Physicians for Human Rights–Israel.
SUNDAY 22 May
The Twice Promised Land: Britain’s Role in Creating 100 Years of Conflict in Palestine 3:30PM – 5:30PM / St Margaret’s Institute, Polstead Rd, OX2 6TN.
Introductory Speaker and Chair: Karl Sabbagh, British-Palestinian writer, documentary maker, and publisher.
Panel members:
▪ Mustafa Barghouti, Palestine National Initiative (Mubadara), Ramallah, Palestine
▪ Rita Giacaman, Birzeit University, Palestine
▪ Jeremy Moodey, Embrace the Middle East
▪ Karma Nabulsi, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford
▪ Naomi Wayne, Jews for Justice for Palestinians
MONDAY 23 MAY
Human Rights for Palestinian Prisoners with Sir Stephen Sedley and William Parry (Event run by Oxford Ramallah Friendship Association – ORFA)
7PM / Investcorp Building, The Middle East Centre, St Antony’s College, 68 Woodstock Rd, OX2 6JF
Short film and panel discussion with: Sir Stephen Sedley – one of the authors of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office report ‘Children in Military Custody’ (2012) which was discussed this January in Parliament
William Parry – journalist/documentary film maker ‘Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Jails’ Oxford Ramallah Friendship Association visitors who attended a juvenile court in the West Bank