![The then-UN Under-Secretary General and ESCWA Executive Secretary Rima Khalaf delivers a speech during a press conference on a report commissioned by the Beirut-based UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) in Beirut, Lebanon on March 15, 2017 [Ratib Al Safadi / Anadolu Agency]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20170315_2_22428404_19898115.jpg)
![The then-UN Under-Secretary General and ESCWA Executive Secretary Rima Khalaf delivers a speech during a press conference on a report commissioned by the Beirut-based UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) in Beirut, Lebanon on March 15, 2017 [Ratib Al Safadi / Anadolu Agency]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/20170315_2_22428404_19898115-500x333.jpg)
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Noura Erakat, author of 'Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine' gives the keynote address at the Palestine Book Awards![Sarah Leah Whitson, an American lawyer and the director of the Middle East and North Africa division of Human Rights Watch speaks at MEMO event: Remembering Jamal one year on, on 2 October, 2019 [Middle East Monitor]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/SRV_2470--500x333.jpg)
"I thought that with Hatice outside and the police on the way, the Saudis would not dare to kidnap him. I thought that would be the worst that might be planned"
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Panel: Beyond Palexpo
Panel: Beyond Palexpo
Panel - One State: The Future- Panel - One State: The Future
Panel - One State: The Future
Panel - Deal or Disaster of the Century- Panel: Deal or Disaster of the Century
Panel - Nation Law: Israeli Apartheid State- Panel - Nation Law: Israeli Apartheid State
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- Panel: Deal or Disaster of the Century
- Panel - Nation Law: Israeli Apartheid State
Panel - Nation Law: Israeli Apartheid State![Oren Yiftachel, Professor of political geography and urban studies at Ben-Gurion University, Beersheva, at MEMO's 'Present Absentees' conference in London on April 27, 2019 [Middle East Monitor]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/104A0474-500x333.jpg)
Interviews"I have coined quite a few terms," noted Professor Oren Yiftachel, "but ethnocracy really captures the idea of a regime that creates a state for the benefit of an...![Jonathan Cook at MEMO’s ‘Present Absentees: Palestinian Citizens of Israel & the Nation-State Law’ conference held in London on April 27, 2019 [Middle East Monitor]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/104A0441-1-500x333.jpg)
Panel: A state of all its citizens?![Professor Oren Yiftachel at MEMO’s ‘Present Absentees: Palestinian Citizens of Israel & the Nation-State Law’ conference held in London on April 27, 2019 [Middle East Monitor]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/104A0410-1-500x333.jpg)
Panel: A state of all its citizens?![Sami Abu Shehadeh addresses MEMO’s ‘Present Absentees: Palestinian Citizens of Israel & the Nation-State Law’ conference held in London on April 27, 2019 [Middle East Monitor]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/104A0576-1-500x333.jpg)
Panel: The beginning of the end of national identity
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