The Future of Gaza: What Can Be Done?
To say the least, this is not an easy conversation. It is hard to imagine a more difficult and traumatizing topic, or a more tragic situation. Our hope is for a stimulating, informative, difficult, conversation, that directs our attention to informed, empathetic understanding, and a basis for constructive cooperation in meeting challenges and opportunities.
SPEAKER DETAILS
Yousef Alreemawi is the founder of Palestine Remembered @ Radio 3CR; a translator, interpreter, and proofreader of Arabic texts; and an expert on Arab Culture and Palestine. He is also the leader of the Tarab Ensemble contemporary Arabic music group.
Shiri Krebs is Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Law as Protection at Deakin University, as well as an affiliate scholar at Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). She is the elected Chair of the Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict and Co-Lead of the Law and Policy Theme at the Australian Government Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre (CSCRC). In 2024, she was appointed a Visiting Legal Fellow at the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). Her research is currently funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the German Government Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship.
Michelle Lesh is a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School. She has also taught at the London School of Economics Summer School. At the United Nations she worked as an international lawyer on the UN Commission of Inquiry into the Gaza protests and for the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory. She worked for many years in Israel–Palestine as a legal advisor at the governmental, inter-governmental and non-governmental level. She is on the board of Australian Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Advisory Committee; on the International Council of New Israel Fund; and an Officer for the International Bar Association War Crimes Committee.
Andrew Thomas is a Lecturer of Middle East Politics at Deakin. He chairs the entire Middle East studies course, covering everything from ancient Middle Eastern history to the contemporary Palestinian-Israeli conflict. He graduated with a PhD from Monash in 2019, studying critical non-Western approaches to Iranian foreign policy.
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