Speakers

Omar Barghouti
Independent political and cultural analyst who has published essays on the rise of empire, the Palestine question and art of the oppressed.
Wasim Dahmash
Professor of Arab Dialectology at La Sapienza University Rome. He translated in Italian a lot of Arab novelists and poets.
Giorgio Frankel
Journalist, he is an expert on Middle East, oil problems and aereo-space industry. He contributes to the Italian financial newspaper “Il Sole 24 Ore”.
Jamil Hilal
Sociologist, he published books and articles (in Arab and in English) on the Palestinian society and politics. With Ilan Pappe he prepared “Talking with the enemy”, Bollati Boringhieri publisher, 2004
Gideon Levy
Journalist, he contributes to the Israeli newsparer Haaretz specially with articles on the Israeli occupation. Ilan Pappe
Ilan Pappe is a senior lecturer at the University of Haifa. His most recent books are “A History of Modern Palestine£ and “The Modern Middle East”. at
Mazin Qumsiyeh
He is a Palestinian American and served on the faculty of Yale and Duke Universities. He is author of the widely acclaimed book "Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle." Qumsiyeh is a cofounder of Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition,
Tanya Reinhart
Tanya Reinhart is a professor of linguistics and cultural studies at the University of Utrecht. She contributes a regular critical column to Yediot Aharonot, Israel's biggest daily, and published widely online and in the international media. She wrote in 2002 “ISRAEL/PALESTINE - How to End the War of 19482 translated in different languages and now she is ending a new essay “Road Map to Nowhere – Israel/Palestine since 2003”.
Aharon Shabtai
Born 1939, is one of Israel’s leading poets. He studied Greek and Philosophy at the Hebrew University, the Sorbonne, and Cambridge. He currently teaches Hebrew literature at Tel Aviv University.

Chairperson
Franca Balsamo
She works at Turin University – CIRSDe Interdisciplinary Research and Study Center of Women and is a professor of “Sociology of the interethnical relationships” at the Faculty of Political Sciences Turin University.
Amedeo Cottino
Professor of Sociology of Law at the Faculty of Political Sciences Turin University. He got doctor’s degree in Sociology in Sweden and teached at local Universities. He managed the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm. His last essay are “Aclan’s life, a justice collaborator tells about himself, EGA, 1998 and “Deceitful but not Criminal – The Justice and the privileges of the powerful”, Carocci Editore 2005
Silvia Macchi
Professor of Urban and Territorial Systems in the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Rome. Since the Second Intifada she developed an intense relationship with the women of the Occupied Palestinian Territories and the international network of Women in Black.