• 9 - 12.12.2013, Bethlehem Organizer: ASHTAR Theatre
    People’s wealth
    Play
  • 29.10.2013, Ramallah Organizer: RLS
    Everywhere is Taksim, everywhere is resistance
    Roundtable

    Roundtable about Turkish riots. The discussion focused on the class nature of the riots, women’s role and Taksim commune.

  • 15.4.2013, Ramallah Organizer: RLS
    RLS stage readings
    Stage reading

    Readings of Rosa Luxemburg with Palestinian music on the stage.

  • 09.05.2012, Ramallah Organizer: RLS
    Debate with Yash Tandon, author of “Ending Aid Dependence”
    Open Discussion

    Prof. Yash Tandon from Uganda presented his seven steps to end aid dependence. The event took place on Wednesday, 9 May 2012, Ramallah. English-Arabic translation was provided.

  • 5.12.2011, Cairo Organizer: RLS
    Looking at the sea as geopolitical space
    Exhibition and symposium

    Hydrarchy looks at the Mediterranean Basin, the Suez Canal, besieged Gaza, and the broader North African context, from the perspective of their waters and the actions that take place upon them. The sea, the ship, and the legal and political construct of ‘offshore’ allows a profound shift of cultural perspective, prioritising transition and flux over fixity, state control and mappability. While land borders are perceived to be fixed and unchangeable, the attempts of ‘pirates’, ‘illegal’ migrants, and flotilla activists show that territorial logics can be escaped or challenged.

    It is no surprise, then, that actions that take place at sea are becoming primary foci within the political logics of globalization. Flotillas, abandoned fleets, pirates, portable seas, migrant journeys, and the mystical language of navigation all filter into the artworks and discussions of Hydrarchy, which take diverse approaches in highlighting, directly or indirectly, the means by which maritime politics revolutionise our thinking.

  • 7.12.2011, Ramallah Organizer: Fuad Nassar Association and the Union of Palestinian Working Women's Committees.
    The impact of funding for strengthening Palestinian women
    Study presentation

    The Fuad Nassar Association and the Union of Palestinian Working Women’s Committees present their study “The impact of funding for strengthening Palestinian women”.

    The research was conducted by Haidar Awadallah, who will present his work. Venue: PARC Building, Fuad Nassar hall, Ramallah. The study is supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.

  • 5.12.2011, Cairo Organizer: Al Sharq Centre for Research and Strategic Studies (SCRSS)
    Regional implications of the political change in Egypt
    Seminar

    “What will post January 25 Egypt relationship with the different states look like?” This question was asked by Al Sharq Centre for Research and Strategic Studies (SCRSS) on Monday the 5 December to a number of Arab, Turkish, and Iranian experts and academics.

    The seminar examined the impact of the political changes in Egypt’s international relations with countries in the region and beyond. Each presenter looked on the history of relations before 25 January; the reality of relations since 11 February; and future scenarios for these relations. While each presenter focused on a specific country; there was a consensus that it is still too early to judge how Egypt will manage its bilateral relations with different states as the interim phase is still hazy and unpredictable.

  • 5.12.2011, Ramallah Organizer: RLS
    Donor Opium. The impact of international aid to Palestine
    Film

    Film by Mariam Shahin and George Azar, produced by Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. Venue: Al Qasaba Cinema, Ramallah

    For twenty years now the international donor community has financially supported Palestinian institution-building, infrastructure development, the economy, public employees’ salaries, health and education, social welfare, the police, electricity production, private credit guarantees, and the bigger part of the civil society organizations with regards to democracy promotion, human rights, tolerance, women rights etc. Peace and the establishment of a democratic Palestinian state have been the declared goals of all the support. But actual results are the fragmentation and pacification of the Palestinian people. The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation supports organizations and ideas that are looking for ways out of the difficult situations and dependencies created by foreign aid, not only in Palestine. You are invited to the free premiere of the film „Donor Opium. The impact of foreign aid to Palestine“, directed by Mariam Shahin and George Azar and produced by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation on Monday, 5 December 2011, 6 p.m. at Al Qasaba Cinema, Ramallah It was followed by a discussion with some of the featured Palestinian critics of international aid.

  • 28.11.2011, Ramallah Organizer: RLS
    Women’s rights. From slogans towards actual performance
    Conference

    On 28 November 2011, the Civil Associations’ Union for Development, an alliance of organisations related to the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) has invited members of different leftist movements in Palestine to discuss performance improvement in this regards.

  • 19.11.2011, Ramallah Organizer: Fuad Nassar Association
    Towards alternative economic policies in Palestine
    Conference

    The Palestinian leadership’s plan for the Palestinian economy is its integration into the free market system with its known implications on conditions of labor and social welfare. At the same time, the Palestinian economy is held captive to the Israeli market.

    At the conference, these predicaments and obstacles to Palestinian development were discussed, as well as ways out of it. The conference was organized by the Fuad Nassar Association for Development Studies and supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. It took place in Ramallah from 19-20 November 2011 in the “Leaders Hall” in Ramallah, Al Masyoun.

  • 21.7.2011, Symposium and tour Organizer: RLS
    Designing civic encounter
    Ramallah

    “DESIGNING CIVIC ENCOUNTER” is a series of interventions engaging in existing and potential forms of urban development and public culture. Although Ramallah is a relatively small city, it has experienced radical urban expansions and population growth. Real Estate is the main target for foreign corporate investment today. What kind of living space do these investments create?

  • 28.6.2011, Ramallah Organizer: Fuad Nassar Association
    The Palestinian economy: An alternative vision from a leftist perspective
    Study Presentation

    Fuad Nassar Institute, a progressive Palestinian think tank based in Ramallah, presented “an alternative vision from a left-wing perspective”. Bassam Salhi, Head of the Palestine People’s Party, summarized the research process, which was accompanied by members of different progressive political movements. He said the study’s goal is to be of assistance progressive political currents in Palestine with alternatives to and exits from the current poor economical plans and projects within the Palestinian Authority area. The study was explicitly designed to support the political left in shaping its programs and electoral campaigns.