9:15-10:50

Session I Opening and Briefings

9:15- 9:30

El Hassan bin Talal: A General Talk

9:30- 9:45

Message from Mr. Yohei Sasakawa

9:45-10:00

HE Professor Talat Halman
Briefing: Center for Mediterranean Humanities

10:00- 10:15

Mr. Mohammad Shahbaz
Briefing: Badia Programme: Combining Identity Politics with Nation Building

10:05- 10:30

Q & A

10:30-10:50

Coffee Break

10:50-12:50

Session II Territoriality, Identity and Movement: West Asia Extra-Territoriality

10:50-11:05

Professor Shimon Shamir
Interests and Culture

11:05-11:20

Professor Sari Nusseibeh
The Territorial Imperative: A Means or an End?

11:20-11:35

Professor Abdul Jabbar Naji
Ethnicity in Iraq: Risk of conflict and hopes for peace and coexistence

11:35-11:50

Professor David Newman
Deterritorialization, Reterritorialization and Borders in the Middle East: A Peace Strategy for the Region

11:50-13.30

Discussion: Peace, Identity and Culture

13:30- 15:30

Free Lunch

16:00-16:45

Session III Asia Africa Forum: The Role of Civil Society

16:00-16:15

Dr. Shireen Mazari
Dialogue within the Islamic World: Asia, Africa , the Muslim Diaspora

16:15-16:30

Mr. John Gai Yoh
Ethnicity, Democratization and Nation Building: Experience in Africa and Relevance to West Asia

16:30- 16:45

Dr. Walid Salem
Middle East Citizens Assembly: MECA

16:45- 17:45

Discussion: Representation, Participation and Regional Civil Society

17:45-18:00

Coffee Break

18:00- 19:30

Session IV: Proposals for Action