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Middle East Debate
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Nov 20 at 3:45 AM UTC+08 – Nov 20 at 5:15 AM UTC+08
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This August, the United Arab Emirates became the third Arab country to officially normalise its relationship with Israel. Bahrain followed suit just last month, and these accords have been lauded by the American and Israeli governments as the most significant step forward for peace in the Middle East in a quarter of a century. However, the Palestinian leadership have criticised the agreements, arguing that Palestinians were ignored and betrayed. Is the Gulf boldly advancing peace in the region, or are they simply undermining Arab unity for the sake of their own regional interests?Proposition
Yossi Klein Halevi
Virtual
Yossi Klein Halevi is an American-Israeli author and journalist, and is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He has written numerous critically acclaimed booking books including Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist, At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew’s Search for God with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land, and Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor, which was a New York Times bestseller.Natasha Hausdorff
Natasha Hausdorff is a British barrister and campaigner. Recently, she was Pegasus Scholar and Fellow in the National Security Law Programme at Columbia Law School in New York, lecturing on aspects of public international law and national security policy. She studied law at Oxford University, and clerked for the President of the Supreme Court of Israel in Jerusalem. Hausdorff is also a Director of UK Lawyers for Israel.Opposition
Dr. Hanan Ashrawi
Virtual
Hanan Ashrawi is a Palestinian legislator, activist and academic who serves on the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s Executive Committee and leads its Department of Culture and Information. She served as an official spokesperson of the Palestinian delegation to the Middle East peace process, from the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991 onwards. Her 1995 book, This Side of Peace chronicles the human and political drama at the heart of the negotiations.Professor Eugene Rogan FBA
Eugene Rogan is a historian of the Middle East, who has been a Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at Oxford since 2015, and Director of the Middle East Centre at St. Antony’s College. He undertook a doctorate in Middle Eastern history at Harvard University and then joined Oxford's Faculty of Oriental Studies as a lecturer in 1991. His widely acclaimed book The Arabs: A History was published by Penguin in 2009.Slots will be available for student speakers.In-person entry to this event will require tickets which can be obtained via random ballot, and we ask that you please provide relevant details for the Union’s track and trace system.The event will also be live-streamed on the members' streaming service for those who would like to watch, but are unable to attend in person.***COVID-19***
All of our in-person events are running at reduced capacity, with social distancing measures, temperature checks and sanitiser stations in place at all events.Face masks are mandatory at all times on the Union premises, with the exception of our bar, which will be operating via table service and takeaway.***ACCESS***
There is wheelchair access, padded seating, an accessible toilet, a gender neutral toilet and a hearing loop.While there is no general car parking, a public car park is a 2 minute walk away from the door. Blue badge parking is offered in Park Street Multi-storey Car Park, as well as on the streets - Round Church Street and Jesus Lane.We can arrange for a BSL interpreter and a designated quiet space by request in advance.You can contact us about access by emailing: president@cus .org.
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