THE NAKBA: MEMORY, REALITY, AND BEYOND
A TIME TO REMEMBER, A TIME FOR TRUTH

PLEASE NOTE: PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Monday, November 10 - Nazareth

• Evening —Arrivals for Pre-conference

Tuesday, November 11 - Nazareth

• Pre-conference—Galilee Holy Site Tour
• IFOS Coordinators meeting

Wednesday, November 12 – Nazareth

Theme: "A Time for Welcome"

• Pre-conference – Nazareth tour
• Optional Nazareth tours

Seventh International Conference begins

Theme: "A Time to Welcome"

16:30 Opening Worship

• Church of Annunciation
• Prayers led by Bishop Marcuzzo

17:30 Reception with community and clergy

19:00 Dinner in hotels

20:00 Optional Lecture:

"Who are the Palestinian Israelis? What is the work of Sabeel Nazareth?"         

Thursday, November 13 – Nazareth

Theme: "A Time to Remember"

8:30 Worship and Welcome

9:30  Lecture: The National Nakba --  Dr. Rashid Khalidi

10:30 Panel: The Nakba and 1948

• Memory and Nakba: Dr. Efrat Ben Ze'ev
• Reconstructing the Nakba: TBD

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Panel: The Present Reality of Palestinian-Israelis

• The Political Reality: Nadim Ruhana
• The Legal Reality: Wakim Wakim
• The Socio-economic Reality: Basel Ghatas

13:00 Lunch

14:30 Lecture: Can Israel be a State for all its Citizens? TBD

• The Palestinian-Israeli Response: TBD

16:00 Panel: The Challenge of Israel as a Jewish State

• Israel's Role in the Middle East: TBD
• Structural Racism : Uri Davis
• Arab Identity in a Jewish State: Abir Kobty

17:30 Free time

19:00 Dinner

20:00 Worship with homily

"Where do we go from here?" Bishop Elias Chacour

Friday, November 14  - Demolished Villages

Theme: "A Time to Mourn"

8:30 Opening Lecture: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine:

• The Human Nakba: Dr. Johnny Mansour
• The Role of Memory Today: Eitan Bronstein

9:30 Buses depart to demolished villages

18:30 Dinner

19:30 Group debriefing

20:00 Prayers and sharing – Rev. Sari Ateek

Saturday, November 15  - Nazareth

Theme: "A Time to Work"

8:30 am Tours of Nazareth

12:00 Lecture: How has the Nakba Affected Theology? Rev. Naim Ateek

13:00 Lunch/Resource Room opens

14:00 Workshops A.1

15:00 Workshops A.2

16:00 Coffee Break

16:30 Workshops B.1

17:30 Workshops B.2           

19:00 Dinner/ Resource room closes

20:00 Poetry event

Sunday, November 16 – Nazareth and Jaffa/Ramle/Lidda

Theme: "A Time for Worship"

8:00 A 1948 Testimony Josef Ben-Eliezer

Worship: Local congregations in Nazareth and surrounds

12:30 Lunch with families

14:00 Depart from hotels

15:30   Tours of Jaffa, Lidda, Ramle

18:00 Back to Jerusalem

19:00 Dinner

20:00 Optional film at Notre Dame -- Jerusalem: East Side Story

Monday, November 17 – Jerusalem/Bethlehem

Theme: "A Time to Speak"

8:30 Bible Study on Refugees

9:30 Panel: "The Creation of Refugees"

• "Historical Overview" Adel Mana'a
•  UNRWA film

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Panel: "The Refugee Situation Today"

• OCHA – Allegra Pacheco
• UNRWA – Sami Mshasha

12:30 Lunch

13:00 Depart for Bethlehem

13:30 Walking tours of Dheishe /Aida /Beit Jibrin/Aroub Camps

16:00 Lecture: Refugee Rights Today

• Muhammad Jarradat, Badil
• Refugee testimony  TBD

17:00 The Church's Response

• Rifat Kassis, World Council of Churches
• Constantine Dabbagh, NECC DSPR
• EAPPI/CPT testimony

19:00 Dinner at Dheishe w/ guests from the camps and Bethlehem area

20:00 Cultural Evening

Tuesday, November 18 – Jerusalem/Jaffa

Theme: "A Time for Mourning"

Morning off – Optional Nakba Walk in West Jerusalem

11:00 Overview by Jeff Halper

12:00 Departure for Jerusalem and surrounds

Contemporary Way of the Cross: to meet community, witness the impact of the wall and continuing house demolitions

• Mount of Olives (At Tur, Abu Dis, Azzaria)
• North (Anata, Beit Hanina, Kfar Aqab)
• South (Walaje, Nu'eman, Al Khader)

16:30 Panel: Jerusalem and 1948

• The History and the Reality: Mahdi abdel Hadi
• The Legal Challenges: Elias Khoury
• Civil Rights in Jerusalem: TBD

18:00 Strategy for the Future: TBD

19:00 Closing dinner at Seven Arches

Wednesday, November 19 - Jerusalem

Theme:" A Time for Peace"

8:30     Morning worship

9:30     Moving forward: The cost of the struggle

Bassam Aramin, Combatants for Peace

Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Civil Rights Movement, USA

            Mairead Maguire, Northern Ireland 

12:00 Closing worship, Church of the Redeemer

Homily, Bishop Munib Younan

1:00 Lunch and goodbyes