Al-Quds Open University

The University holds conferences and activities that tackle different topics, and address the needs of the local and international communities, to eventually conclude needed recommendations and proposals.

Conference of Palestine: The Place, Time & Cause

Introduction

For the second consecutive year, the University of Montana holds the conference "Reinforcing Indigenous Voices in Academia and Society ", which highlights indigenous peoples' intellectual and cultural contributions and their role in shaping linguistics and anthropology. It will also shed light on the transformations the societies that suffered from policies of occupation and obliteration of identity and culture experienced.

Within this partnership, and under the framework itself, Al-Quds Open University, in partnership with the University of Montana, holds the conference "Palestine: The Place time and cause ", which sheds light on the experience of the Palestinian people in confronting Israeli occupation policies aimed at uprooting them from their own land and replacing them with groups and individuals from all over the world.

Since 1948 and beyond, the Palestinian cause has been one of the living examples of the occupier's policies of uprooting the people from their land, obliterating their identity, stealing their cultural and intellectual properties and seeking to create distorted historical narratives to blur the Palestinians’ narrative and their entitlement to their land which is known in the humanitarian international law as "organized ethnic cleansing". The Israeli war machine did not stop their destructive policies which led to displacement of more than a million Palestinians after more than 70 massacres destroying over than 530 Palestinian villages along with their humanist, historical and civilized heritage. Moreover, the occupier’s media with their cultural tools did not stop falsifying historical facts and changing cultural properties.

Since it is important to develop a comprehensive strategy to confront the Zionist Movement, its colonial project and its racist settlement policy against the Palestinian people, this conference seeks to present a sketch of the Palestinian people struggle to stabilize their identity, culture and narrative, and to raise the voice of academics and intellectuals in the global academia milieus.

No	Name	Position
1.	Dr. Abdulrahman Mughrabi	Head/ Scientific committee
2.	Mr. Wisam Samara	Head/ preparatory committee
3.	Prof. Dr. AbdulRaouf Khreiwesh	Member
4.	Prof. Dr. Noman Amro	Member
5.	Dr. Ameed Badir	Member
6.	Dr. Nabil Moghrabi	Member
7.	Mr. Ahmad Khilla	Member/ Department of Refugees Affairs
8.	Mr. AbdulKarim Ajrami	Member/ Department of Refugees Affairs
9.	Miss. Nisreen Douqan	Member
10.	Mr. Awad Meshel	Member
11.	Miss. Diana Salah	Member

No	Name	Position
1.	Dr. Abdulrahman Mughrabi	Head/Scientific committee
2.	Prof. Dr. Jamal Ibrahim	Member
3.	Prof. Dr. Jihad AlBatsh	Member
4.	Prof. Dr. AbdulRaouf Khreiwesh	Member
5.	Prof. Dr. Noman Amro	Member
6.	Dr. Ahmad Hasan Abu Gaffar	Member/Palestine National University
7.	Dr. Assad Naffal	Annajah National University
8.	Dr. AbdulRahim Ghanim	Member
9.	Dr. Imad Ishtaya	Member
10.	Dr. Qusai Hamid	Member
11.	Dr. Mohamad AlHroub	Member
12.	Dr. Mohamad Talalwa	Member
13.	Dr. Rowaida Ahmed	Member
14.	Mis Manal Al-Qasim	Member/ Department of Refugees Affairs
15.	Mr. Yousuf Harb Odeh	Deputy/ Palestinian Ministry of Interior

No	Name	Department
1.	Mr. Muhannad Mansour	Technical Production Department
2.	Mr. Ibrahim Abu Turki	Technical Production Department
3.	Miss Nevin Salah	Public & International Relations & Media Department