Students Against Israeli Apartheid @ Carleton University

Nada Elia is a faculty member at Antioch University, Seattle, where she teaches Gender and Global Studies. She is co-founder of RAWAN (the Radical Arab Women's Activist Network), chairs the Anti-Militarism and Occupation taskforce of Incite! Women of Color Against Violence, and serves on the Organizing Committee of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. A scholar-activist, Elia is the author of Trances, Dances, and Vociferations: Agency and Resistance in Africana Women's Narratives, co-editor of The Color of Violence: the INCITE anthology, and has published numerous articles on the sociopolitical factors impacting gender and national identity in societies at war and/or under occupation.

Andrew Stachiw is a Senior at Hampshire College working towards a teaching license in high school US History, as well as writing a senior thesis on Indian Removal Policy and American Expansionism in the 19th century. He has been involved in Hampshire's Students for Justice in Palestine since his second year, and was one of the group signers for three semesters, including the semester of divestment in the Spring of 2009. During the aftermath of divestment, Andrew served as one of the group spokespeople. Following divestment, SJP focused on extending and perpetuating divestment around the country and continent.
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Yafa Jarrar was born in Jerusalem, Palestine. She moved to Canada in 2003 to attend Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific. She is currently continuing her MA degree in Political Science at Carleton University, and is a member of Students Against Israeli Apartheid. Yafa represented Palestine in the Arab League of Nations in Cairo in 2001, addressing the effects of the Israeli occupation on the Palestinian educational process; and, also in 2001, was elected to represent Palestine to speak at the United Nations.

Haya Zaidan is a fourth year student of International Development and Globalization at the University at the University of Ottawa. Haya has been active in the Palestinian cause from a young age. As a Palestinian Canadian and Coordinator of the SPHR- uOttawa Right To Education Campaign, Haya aims to educate students about the struggles of Palestinian student living under occupation.  *We regret that due to unforeseen circumstances, Haya Zaidan was unable to present.

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Na'eem Jeenah is an academic, author, journalist, community leader and post-graduate student. He is currently the Director of the Afro-Middle East Centre, a research institute dealing with the Middle East, and a PhD candidate in Political Studies. Naeem has a history of activism in the anti-apartheid struggle, and is a well-known activist in South Africa. He has been a leading figure in the Palestine solidarity and anti-war movements in South Africa. Naeem also served for many years on the Board of the Freedom of Expression Institute, including as its Deputy Chairperson. An experienced journalist, Naeem writes for a number of publications and has reported for a network of radio stations in the US. He is also a monthly columnist for the South African community newspaper Al-Qalam.

Gabriel Ash is an activist and writer. Since 2000, Gabriel has been engaged in work in support of Palestinian liberation, including with Stop U.S. Tax-funded Aid to Israel Now!, Palestine Activist Forum New York, and the International Solidarity Movement. Gabriel wrote numerous articles about related topics, in particular Israeli politics, in many movement publications, including Left Turn, Electronic Intifada, Numb Magazine, Dissident Voice and others. He was born in Romania and grew up in Israel, where he translated Michel Foucault and J.-F. Lyotard into Hebrew. He contributes regularly to the blog, "Jews Sans Frontieres" and is active in the International Jewish Anti-zionist Network and in lachaine.ch, a web TV collective.

Nahla Abdo (Ph.D.) is an Arab feminist activist, Professor of Sociology at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She has extensive publications on women, racism, nationalism and the State in the Middle East with special focus on Palestinian women. Among her recent publications: Gender, Citizenship and the State: The Israeli Case. 2010 (Arabic); Women and Poverty in the OPT: Some Conceptual and Methodological Notes, 2007; Violence in the Name of Honour: Theoretical and Political Challenges, 2004 (with Shahrzad Mojab), and Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation, 2002 (with Ronit Lentin). In addition to these books Professor Abdo has published numerous articles in academic journals. She has recently returned from a 6-month trip to Palestine/Israel where she worked with various civil society organizations and conducted research on Palestinian Women Political Detainees.