Selected Lectures & Presentations

INSPIRATION - Remarks made at the Graduation Ceremony of the Anglican International School.  Jerusalem on June 25, 2009.

The Multatuli-lecture, delivered in Leuven on the 25th of May, 2009: "IDENTITIES IN CONFLICT: MASTERS AND SLAVES"

Fear of the Other: Fear for the Other:  presentation made at "The Fear of the Other" conference organized by the Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi (PSUAD) , Abu Dhabi.-  March 15, 2009.

Remarks, in absentia, on Gaza,  made on the Occasion of being awarded an honorary doctorate “Doctor Honoris Causa”, by the Academic Councils of the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve) and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U. Leuven, Leuven) jointly in Belgium. February 2009.

The Tanner Lectures On Human Values , Delivered at Harvard University on November 5-7, 2008 :

Philosophical Reflections on the Israeli-Palestinian War:

1) Of Hedgehogs, Foxes and Swans  Video Link  (Streaming RealMedia Video)

2) Of Folly, Faith & Miracles

Minds without Borders – Presentation made at the Fall Leadership Conference of the Near East South Asia Council of Overseas Schools (NESA) - Amman on October 26, 2008.

Palestine: Nation-Building? – Presentation made at the opening ceremony of the Flemish Centre for International Policy of the Antwerp University, Belgium- May 7, 2008.

Islam, Islamic Philosophy and Peace – Presentation made at “Three voices Symposium - Prospettive filosofiche sulla pace” organized by the Philosophy Department - University of Torino, Italy - April 15, 2008.

Gas-less in Gaza - Presentation made at the "Human Rights and Intercultural Dialogue In The Mediterranean" conference organized by the Law Faculty, University of Teramo, Italy- March 27-29 2008.

Final Status: Jerusalem and Return, for James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy of Rice University (October, 2007).

Self-Worth And Self-Delusion, Presentation for a workshop about the "Concept of Human Dignity from the perspective of the history of Religions", at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, December, 2006.

Palestinians Demand Justice, First International Conference On Ethics and Politics, Crete, May 2006.

The Archemidean Lever: Right In the face of Might, the Max Perutz Memorial Lecture, International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies, London, May 2005.

When Two Rights Conflict: The Right of Return and the Right to Freedom, keynote address, University of Chicago Law School, 2004.

The peace process and Palestinian Statehood - Presentation made at the United Nations Asian Meeting on The Question of Palestine - Hanoi - Vietnam on March 2000

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