Dr. Michelle presented the results of her research which she carried out in Palestine over the last 2 months. During this period, she concentrated on interviews with various local actors engaged in the field of international law and especially those working directly and indirectly on the recent membership and statehood initiatives before the UN. She used these encounters to raise broader questions about the way in which professionals under occupation live a life through law and what statehood would mean for them in their work.

 
The period of prohibiting slavery forms a crucial period in the integration of new societies to which they belong to.  However, to what extent can the Blacks in North Africa, Algeria in particular, form an identity of their own; or emerge as a part of the country’s’ identity which will shape starting from the year 1962 their new homeland.