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The 2010 Palestine Center Annual Conference  

Where
The Palestine Center
2425 Virginia Ave, NW

Washington, DC  20037
202.338.1290

Map
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When
October 29, 2010

Palestine Center Annual Conference

Schedule

9:00am – 9:15am                                                       Can't attend this event?
Welcome Remarks                                                       Watch the live webcast

9:15am - 10:30am
The Changing Face of Jerusalem    

  Amb. Phil Wilcox - President, Foundation for Middle
                             East Peace

  Tom Abowd - Professor, Tufts & U. Massachusetts,  
                      Boston

Coffee and Pastry Break    10:30 - 11am

11am - 12:15am
Changing Resistance Tactics: Violence, Non-Violence and the battle for legitimacy    

  BDS: Rebecca Vilkomerson - Executive Director, Jewish
                                            Voice for Peace

  NON-VIOLENCE: Mubarak Awad - Founder, Nonviolence
                                                 International

  MUSLIM MOVEMENTS IN ISRAEL: Ibtisam Ibrahim - Professor, American University

Break for Lunch    12:15 - 1pm

1pm - 2:15pm
Regional Dynamics: Who carries the Palestine Torch?   

  IRAN: Trita Parsi - Founder and president, the National
                             Iranian American Council

  TURKEY: Nuh Yilmaz - Director, Foundation for Political,
                                  Economic and Social Research

  ARAB STATES: Saad Eddine Ibrahim - Leading Egyptian human rights and
                                                        democracy activist

Note: Speakers or Panels may be added.

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BIOS

Amb. Phil Wilcox - President, Foundation for Middle East Peace

Amb. Phil Wilcox is the president of a Washington D.C.-based foundation devoted to fostering peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Wilcox retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in September 1997 after 31 years of service. More info.






Tom Abowd - Professor, Tufts & U. Massachusetts, Boston

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Rebecca Vilkomerson - Executive Director, Jewish Voice for Peace

Rebecca has over fifteen years of experience in community organizing, advocacy, program development and fundraising in the United States and Israel. Rebecca has been an active member of JVP since 2002, and lived in Israel with her family from 2006-2009. Most recently, Rebecca worked for a Palestinian Israeli public policy center and a Bedouin-Jewish environmental rights organization. More info.



Mubarak Awad - Founder, Nonviolence International

Awad founded Nonviolence International in 1989 after being expelled from Palestine for helping the creation of a nonviolent action campaign and the first intifada. He has worked for 30 years as an advocate for youth and started many programs that provide services for thousands of troubled and neglected young people across the United States. He is married to Nancy Nye, has 2 children and 1 grandchild. More info.




Ibtisam Ibrahim - Professor, American University

Professor Ibrahim joined the faculty as an assistant professor of sociology. Dr. Ibrahim teaches courses in the Arab World and Middle East and directs the Arab Studies Program. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Haifa, Israel, her master’s degree from Clark University. Her doctorate in Development Studies is from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her dissertation, "Particularization of Identity along Religious Lines: the Case of Palestinian Minority in Israel," received the Gene Havens Memorial Award. More info.


Trita Parsi - Founder and president, the National Iranian American Council

Trita Parsi is an expert on US-Iranian relations, Iranian politics, and the balance of power in the Middle East. He is the author of Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Iran, Israel and the United States (Yale University Press 2007), for which he conducted more than 130 interviews with senior Israeli, Iranian and American decision-makers. Treacherous Alliance is the silver medal winner of the 2008 Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations. More info.


Nuh Yilmaz - Director, Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA)

Mr. Yilmaz is widely published on Turkey’s new foreign policy orientations, U.S. foreign policy, Turkish politics, energy security, Turkish-American relations, and is a frequent commentator for the Turkish media. Mr. Yilmaz received his BS in Sociology from Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, and completed his M.F.A in Graphic Design from Bilkent University. He is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at George Mason University. More info.
 

Saad Eddine Ibrahim - Leading Egyptian human rights and democracy activist

Ibrahim is an Egyptian American sociologist and author. He is one of Egypt's leading human rights and democracy activists. For most of his professional career Saad Eddin Ibrahim was a professor of sociology at the American University in Cairo. He is the founder of both the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies in Cairo and the Arab Organization for Human Rights. More info.