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Participants
Terry Rempel,
Head of Delegation, and co-ordinator of BADIL's Research and
Information Unit. Mr. Rempel holds a MA degree in Middle East
Politics from Exeter University (UK), and is a research fellow at
the School of Historical, Sociological, and Political Studies at
Exeter University.
Nihad Boqai of BADIL’s research
staff, a social science graduate from the Hebrew University,
Jerusalem. Mr. Boqai was born and raised in the Galilee area
inside Israel. His family was forcefully evicted from their home
in Galilee in 1948 and has not been permitted to return to its
home and land since them.
Waji Atallah,
secretary of the Union of Youth Activity Centres, Palestine
Refugee Camps (UYAC) and a member of BADIL’s General Assembly. He
was born and raised in Kalandia camp (Jerusalem). His family
originated from ‘Islin, a 1948 depopulated Palestinian village now
located within Israeli-held western Jerusalem. The UYAC is a
grassroots union with some 20,000 members who live in and outside
refugee camps in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Ahmad Osman,
AIDUN Group-Lebanon.
Jaber Suleiman
is an independent researcher with Palestinian NGOs and the
Institute of Palestine Studies in Beirut, Lebanon and a founding
member of AIDUN Group-Lebanon. He was evicted in 1948 as a child
from his hometown Majdal in southern Palestine. Majdal is now
known as Ashkelon, a large coastal town in Israel, just north of
the Gaza Strip. His family fled to Saida (Sidon), Lebanon. AIDUN
is an initiative launched in 2000 to raise awareness among
Palestinian exiles and promote Palestinian refugees’ right to
return to their homes and property.
Majed Fanous, AIDUN-Syria,
advocate, Damascus.
Walid al-Masri, High
Committee for the Right of Return, Jordan. Theater director from
Zarqa.
Khaled al-Maslamani,
High Committee for the Right of Return, Jordan. Theater director,
Zarqa.
Amjad Taha, al-Awda-UK,
IT trainer, Essex, UK.
Muhammad Kaiyal,
Association for the Defense of the Rights of the Internally
Displaced (ADRID), journalist, Judaida, Galilee.
Dr. Mahmoud Issa
is an independent researchers based in Denmark. He is active in
Palestine right of return committees and Palestinian community
organizations in Denmark and other parts of Europe. His family
originates from the 1948 depopulated village Lubya in the
Galilee. His family was forced to flee to Lebanon. Dr. Issa is
the author of an extensive oral history research project about
Lubya and is involved in the preparation of an ethnographic
exhibition on pre-1948 Palestinian village life to be opened in
Denmark.
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