This is an excellent opportunity to hear Gideon Levy and Suhail Khalilieh speak about their knowledge of and experiences in the Holy Land. Please join us!
Gideon Levy is a Haaretz columnist and a member of the newspaper’s editorial board. Levy joined Haaretz in 1982, and spent four years as the newspaper’s deputy editor. He is the author of the weekly “Twilight Zone” feature, which covers the Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza over the last 25 years, as well as the writer of political editorials for the newspaper. Levy was the recipient of the Euro-Med Journalist Prize for 2008; the Leipzig Freedom Prize in 2001; the Israeli Journalists’ Union Prize in 1997; and The Association of Human Rights in Israel Award for 1996. His new book, The Punishment of Gaza, has just been published by Verso Publishing House in London and New York.
Suhail Sami Khalilieh is the Head of the Settlements Monitoring Department at the Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem (ARIJ), a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the self-reliance of the Palestinian people and sustainable development in the occupied Palestinian territories. He is a frequent contributor to a number of print and online publications, including the prestigious Ma’an News Agency and the Palestinian-Israeli Journal. He is often consulted for his expertise on Israeli settlement activity and Israeli Army practices and policies in the occupied Palestinian territories. Khalilieh has held management positions with the Arab Thought Forum, the Palestinian Trade Center, and the Union of Stone and Marble Producers in Palestine. In all these positions, his work entailed concern with human rights violations. He is a graduate of Bethlehem University in the West Bank.