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Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh

• Previously at Duke and Yale, now Bethlehem University. Founded number of laboratories (& organizations on human rights)

• Clinical and Research Cytogenetics

Laboratory, Founded 2009

• Palestine Museum of Natural History, Founded 2014

Fertile Crescentالخصيب الهالل

Photo: Anton Khaliliehhttp://www.palestinenature.org

سنويا 500 فلسطين من يمر مهاجر طائر مليون) إلفريقيا) أوروبا500 million migrating birds pass over Palestine on annual migrations Europe to Africa

Sir Mark Sykes 1916 François Georges-Picot

Arthur James Balfour 1917 Jules Martin Cambon

Settler colonialism

7 million of 12 million Palestinians are refugees or displaced people

1967- Israel occupies then colonizes the remaining 22% of Palestine (& USS Liberty is deliberately attacked) Qumsiyeh.org

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Challenges: Mega projectsاألردن - حوض مياه تحويل تحديات

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Origin of International Solidarity Movement

• Unique model of a global participation in the struggle• Ideas started in the 1987 uprising. Tax revolt in Beit

Sahour and founding of PCR in 1988

• 1990s more participation• Event to challeng Ush Ghrab camp 28/12/2000,

formalized spring 2001

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