Human Rights and the Question of Palestine

An exploration of the three principal facets of the Palestinian condition

Human Rights and the Question of Palestine
An exploration of the three principal facets of the Palestinian condition

presented by
Q A N U N, Columbia Law School's North African
and Middle Eastern Association

Monday, March 4, 2002
6:30PM -- 8:30PM
Columbia Law School
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 103
116th Street and Amsterdam
All are welcome!

F E A T U R I N G (see below for bios)

Raif Zreik
--Land, Home, Homeland: The Question of Palestinians in Israel

Roger Normand
--The Status of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories

Wadie Said
--Palestinian Refugees: Legal Considerations and the Right of Return

C O S P O N S O R S

Amnesty International
Center for Economic and Social Rights
Center for the Study of Human Rights
Muslim Law Students Association
Native American Law Students Association
Orthodox Christian Fellowship
SIPA Human Rights Program
SIPA Middle East Working Group
Society for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

B I O G R A P H I E S

RAIF ZREIK is a Palestinian Israeli political activist as well as a practicing lawyer in Israel with 10 years of experience. He has co-founded and served as legal advisor to the Galilee Society and Adalah, the two major NGO's focusing on civil rights in Israel. He has also written on issues of citizenship and identity in Arabic, Hebrew, and English in such publications as Ha'aretz, Paneem, Hagar, and the International Jursits Journal. Mr. Zreik was a Human Rights Fellow at Columbia Law School, earning his LLM in 2001. He is currently pursuing an SJD at Harvard Law School.

ROGER NORMAND is co-founder and Executive Director of the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), a human rights group that advocates against poverty and economic injustice both at home and abroad. He oversees policy, program and outreach, and directs projects in the Middle East and Central Asia. Prior to CESR, he organized the Harvard Study Team missions to Iraq in 1991, the first independent investigations of the devastating effects of war and sanctions on Iraq's civilian population. Mr. Normand has also worked with Human Rights Watch-Asia and Catholic Relief Services on refugee issues in Southeast Asia. A graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard Divinity School, he has written widely on human rights and refugee issues for publications including the Harvard International Law Journal, the Journal for Refugee Studies, the Harvard Human Rights Journal, the Nation, the Washington Post, the Middle East Report, USA Today and the Guardian.

WADIE SAID is a 1999 graduate of Columbia Law School, where he served as an articles editor for the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. He currently works as a litigation associate at the law firm of Debevoise and Plimpton and previously served as a law clerk to the Hon. Charles P. Sifton of the Eastern District of New York.