The FMRU at the IALIIS, Birzeit University, hosted a lecture by Professor John B. Quigley, President’s Club Professor of Law at the Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University.
In his lecture, Professor Quigley dealt with the concept of a Palestinian State from a historical perspective. At the core of his argument, Professor Quigley made the assertion that a Palestinian State has been in existence ever since the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and the takeover by the British Mandate in Palestine.

 
In cooperation with Birzeit’s program of Israeli Studies, Dr. Nakhleh presented his latest book entitled Israel Shahak: An exceptional universal humanist, an unwavering critic of Jewish-Zionist hypocrisy.

 
Dr. Hannes Baumann from King’s College examined how Gulf corporations are restructuring Arab economies around a nexus of finance and real estate. The lecture built on Adam Hanieh's work on Gulf capital to show how 'dependent neoliberalism’ was constructed in Lebanon and how this analysis can be extended to other countries in the Mashriq.

 
The Forced Migration and Refugee Unit at IALIIS hosted Dr. Abbas Shiblak, an expert on the refugee issue, for a roundtable discussion on 'The Exodus of Iraqi Jews 1950-1952’. The roundtable discussion was chaired by Dr. Majid Shihade and was attended  by faculty members and M.A students of International Studies at Birzeit University .  
Shiblak presented the Iraqi Jewish community, their movement to and from Iraq, and their contribution to the formation of modern Iraq as well as the Iraqi’s Jewish community early encounters with the Zionist movement.

 
IALIIS hosted Professor Naseer Aruri for a roundtable discussion on 'The United States of America and the Vital Political Center: The Role of Intellectuals in the affairs of the Arab Communities’ The roundtable discussion was chaired by Professor Roger Heacock.
Dr. Aruri stressed that the argument of non-assimilation of the various American ethnicities is feeble and ill-founded as the reality of the American society proves to be cohesive and coherent within the framework of the vital political center.

IALIIS hosted Dr. Cordula Droege, a legal adviser in the legal division of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC); Mr. Shawan Jabarin from Al-Haq's General Director; and Dr. Yaser Ammouri from the Faculty of Law and Public Administration at Birzeit University, for a roundtable discussion on Israel’s policy of deporting Palestinian nationals and particularly the recent deportation orders against members of Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) from East Jerusalem.