Prominent Palestinian American journalist, activist, media-analyst, author, Ali Abunimah arrives in Johannesburg on Monday. He will deliver lectures in Cape Town and Port Elizabeth. However, Durban residents will not get the opportunity to hear his message. A spokesman for the organisers said that his trip had been planned to include only the three cities.
He is also co-founder of the widely acclaimed and award-winning online publication The Electronic Intifada. A graduate of Princeton University and the University of Chicago, MrAbunimah has authored “One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse” and “The Battle for Justice in Palestine”. He is also the recipient of the 2013 Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship Award. Ali Abunimah’s mother is originally from the Palestinian village of Lifta but became a refugee in the 1948 Israeli expulsion of indigenous Palestinians from their homeland. His father is from the village of Battir, now in the Palestinian West Bank, and served as a diplomat at the UN. Herewith details of his program:
TUESDAY 13 MARCH, 18H30 Graduate Seminar Room, East Campus, Wits University, Johannesburg enquire 0817403838
WEDNESDAY 14 MARCH, 13H00 Building 123, South Campus, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth Hosts: Centre for the Advancement of Non-racialism and Democracy
THURSDAY 15 MARCH 18H00 at New Lecture Theatre Building, Upper Campus, UCT, Cape Town Hosts UCT PSF, PSA UWC and others enquire 0826955659
FRIDAY 16 MARCH 18H00 at 28 Sir Lowry Road, Foreshore, Cape Town Hosts Palestine Museum, PSC,
SATURDAY 17 MARCH 11H00 Introduction to Palestine solidarity at Isivivana Centre, Khayelitsha Hosts Equal Education