The Geo-Strategic and Political Significance of the Gaza Strip

 

Agenda

First Day: 18 November 2014

Registration (9:00 – 9:30)

Opening Session (9:30 – 10:00)

Welcoming and Prologues

Birzeit University – Khalil Hindi

Institute for Palestine Studies – Camille Mansour

Heinrich Boll Foundation – René Wildangel

 

First Session: The History of the Gaza Strip since the Nakba (10:00 – 12:00)

Session's Chair and Remarks: Munir Fakher Eldin & Issam Younis

The History of the Gaza Strip: from the Desired Entity (1948) to the Rejected Entity (1993). KHALID SAFI

Gaza Strip from Constructing to Dividing the Palestinian Identity. ASHRAF ABU NADA

The Legal Background: Shifts in the Legal Significance of the Gaza Strip. HASAN JABBARIN

15-minute Break (12:00 – 12:15)

 

Second Session: The Political Changes in the Gaza Strip since the Establishment of the PNA (12:15 – 02:15)

Session's Chair and Remarks: Ali Jarbawi & Riad Al Eleh

The Nature of the Political Regime Evolving in the Gaza Strip after the Division. TALAL OKAL

The Islamic Movement›s Shifts in the Gaza Strip: Internal and Intellectual Tensions, and the Foreign and Regional

Relations. KHALID HROUB

Political Implications and Consequences of the War on the Gaza Strip. ADNAN ABU AMER

Lunch Break (02:15 – 03:00)

 

Third Session: Israeli Tools of Domination on the Gaza Strip and the Prospects of Resistance (03:00 – 05:00)

Session's Chair and Remarks: Ahmad Azm & Mkhaymar Abu Sa'da

Israeli Tools of Domination: Border Crossings Policy as Means to Control and Govern the Gaza Strip. OLA TAMIMI

Israeli Strategies and Policies Pursued vis a vis Hamas in the Gaza Strip. ASHRAF BADER

Erasure Mechanisms: between the Occupation's Desires and the Refugees› Dynamics in the Gaza Strip. NORMA

MASRIYYA

The Safe Passage between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank: the Political and Strategic Importance. AMMAR DWEIK.

 

Second Day: 19 November 2014

 

First Session: The Strategic Significance of the Gaza Strip (9:30 – 12:00)

Session's Chair and Remarks: Ahmad Khalifeh & Akram Attallah

The Significance of the Gaza Strip from Egypt›s Point of View. MUHAMMAD JUMA

Gaza Strip: Shifts in the Israeli›s Military and Security Strategies. AHMAD SAMEH KHALIDI

Significance of the Gaza Strip in the Palestinian National Scheme: The Risks of Separation between the West Bank

and the Gaza Strip. CAMILLE MANSOUR

15-minute Break (12:00 – 12:15)

 

Second Session: The Economic Challenges and Reconstruction (12:15 – 02:15)

Session's Chair and Remarks: Hussam Zumlot & Mohsen Abu Ramadan

Economic Ramifications and Reconstruction after the War on the Gaza Strip. NABEEL KASSIS

Reconstruction in the Gaza Strip: Manipulation, Government, and Resistance. SANDRA POGODDA

Relief Role of UNRWA during and after the War on the Gaza Strip. ADNAN ABU HASNA

Lunch Break (02:15– 03:00)

 

Third Session: The Social Shifts and the Implications of the Siege and War (03:00 – 05:00)

Session's Chair and Remarks: Lora Al-Khoury & Nasser Abu Al-Atta

Demographic Challenges. YOUSEF COURBAGE

Social Changes in the Gaza Strip. ABAHER AL SAKKA

Problematizing Solidarity with Gaza as Symbol. THOMAS HILL