CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS

1993

  Palestine, the Arab World and the Emerging International System: Values Culture and Politics.
  5th-9th July. Birzeit University, West Bank; Al-Najah University, Nablus
Organized by: The Association of Arab-American University Graduates.

SUMMARY:

  This conference was attended by professors, university lecturers, research fellows and other specialists from Europe as well as from the US and here. The total number of participants was 57 excluding members of Birzeit and the AAUG.

Two members of PASSIA attended this conference, Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi and Dr. Hisham Ahmed. Edward Said and Lord Gilmour opened the conference with speeches on "Critical Regional Perspectives on the Emerging International System". Over the five days of the conference there were ten different panels, each composed of six experts on a particular topic that each panel had chosen. Topics were as follows:

Replacing/Reshaping the old system: Conflicts in Public and Foreign Policy Formation; Cultural Hegemony in a Changing World; Palestine, Israel and the Arab Israeli Conflict; Ethnicity, Security and Hegemony; Political Disorders in a Troubled Arab State System; Feminist Perspectives on the Future of Palestinian Society; Ethics and Politics in American Dominance; Integrating/Marginalizing Palestine and Palestinians; Political Economy and Development: Palestinian Israeli Dependency or Interdependency; Peace and the Dilemmas of Statebuilding.