Meetings & Workshops

 
8
Nov
2021

EUREP Culture and Education Partner Coordination Workshop

  • Organizer: Office of the European Union Representative (West Bank & Gaza Strip, UNRWA).
  • Location: Legacy Hotel, Jerusalem.
Participants: DanChurchAid-Norwegian Church Aid (DCA-NCA); Terre des Hommes Italia; Enabel - Belgian Development Agency; Pro Terra Sancta; Comitato Internazionale per lo Sviluppodei Popoli - CISP; Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA); Ru’ya (Palestinian Vision); Palestinian Heritage Trail; Burj Al-Luqluq Social Center Society; Sabreen Association for Artistic Development; AFKAR for Educational & Cultural Development (AECD); ACT for Alternative Dispute Resolution and Studies; Nakhleh Esheber Institute; Frères College for Boys & Girls (De la Salle); Al-Wifaq School; Terra Sancta High School; Bab Al-Silsila.
All Meetings & Workshops were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA
6
Nov
2021

Moroccan Reward for Serving the Cause of Jerusalem

  • Organizer: Bayt Mal Al-Quds Agency, Morocco.
  • Location: Ambassador Hotel, Jerusalem.
All Meetings & Workshops were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA
6
Oct
2021

Palestinian Properties in Jerusalem in Light of Recent Israeli Planning and What Lies ahead?"

  • Organizer: PASSIA.
  • Location: Legacy Hotel, Jerusalem & Zoom.
Speakers: Adv. Fahd Al-Shweiki, Member, Islamic Waqf Council; Dr. Rami Nasrallah, Chairman, International Peace and Cooperation Center (IPCC).
Participants: Pedro Blanco Pérez, Head, Representative Office of México; Pierre Bigard, Political Division, French Consulate; Amb. Ahmet Riza Demirer, Acting Head, Consulate General of the Republic of Turkey in Jerusalem; Erling Hoem, Minister Counsellor / Deputy Representative, Representative Office of Norway; South African Representative Office: Lesiba Machaba, Chargé d’Affaires; Khomotso Maake, First Secretary, Political; Ghada Arouri, Projects Officer, British Consulate General; Hannes Alpen, Director, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES); Rasmus Brandt, Program Manager, FES; Islam Abdul Jabbar, Team Assistant, FES; Jumana Jaouni, Head of Mission Advisor, ICRC; Fayez Al-Akra, ICRC, Gaza; Dr. Anja Zorob, DAAD Long Term Lecturer and Associate Professor of Political Science at Birzeit University; Marie-Claire Klassen, PhD Student, University of Notre Dame, Volunteer, Sabeel - Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center; Hanadi Adameh, Grassroots Al-Quds; Asma Odetallah, Grassroots Al-Quds; Yousef Daher; Bishop Dr. Munib A.Younan; Mustafa Abu Zahra, Engineer; Ibrahim Matar, Palestinian Economist and Researcher; Moatasem Daoudi; Dr. Amjad Shihab, Al-Maqdisi College; Adv. Mohammad Abu Sneineh, Lawyer; Yousef Dajani, Businessman, Member, Islamic Waqf Council; Ahmad Rwaidy, Head, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation; Eng. Mohammad Al-Masri; Toufic Haddad, Academic; Khalil Assali, Journalist and Analyst; Majdoleen Jibril, Social Media, PCBS; Adv. Mohammad Abbasi, Lawyer, JLAC; Deniz Altayli, Program Director, PASSIA; Adnan Joulani, Project Director, PASSIA; Imad Farrah, PASSIA; Omar Farrah, Intern, PASSIA; Alyssa Bivins, Ph.D. Candidate, Volunteer, PASSIA; Hind Husseini, PASSIA.
All Meetings & Workshops were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA
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28
Sep
2021

Waqf Properties and Real Estate in Jerusalem - In Light of the Israeli Planning and Organization Challenges - The Objections of Arab Jerusalemites, and What’s Next?”

  • Organizer: PASSIA.
  • Location: Legacy Hotel, Jerusalem.
Speakers: Adv. Fahd Al-Shweiki, Member, Islamic Waqf Council; Dr. Rami Nasrallah, Chairman, International Peace and Cooperation Center (IPCC).
Participants: Royal Hashemite Court, Jordan: Dr. Wasfi Kailani (Executive Director of the Hashemite Fund for the Restoration of the Al-Aqsa Mosque) & Others; Sheikh Mohammad Mustafa Sarandah, Judge in Jerusalem’s Islamic Courts, Member, Islamic Waqf Council; Eng. Alaa Salhab, Engineer and Businessman, Member, Islamic Waqf Council; Eng. Adnan Husseini, PLO Executive Committee Member, Member, Islamic Waqf Council; Dr. Hani Abdeen, Member, Islamic Waqf Council, Dean of Medical School, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem; Khalil Assali, Journalist and Analyst, Member, Islamic Waqf Council; Eng. Fouad Dakkak, Consultant Engineer, former member of the Islamic Waqf Council; Eng. Mohammad Al-Masri; Eng. Abdallah Abu Qteish; Eng. Darwish Hijazi; Adv. Bashir Muhtaseb, Lawyer; Adv. Usama Halabi, Lawyer; Sufian Mushasha, UNDP; Majdoleen Jibril, Social Media, PCBS; Shifa Jayousi, Project Coordinator, UNSCO; Khaled Kaloti, Businessman; Kamal Kaddourah; Sana' Hasna, Researcher, Jerusalem File, Palestinian Negotiation Support Project, Negotiations Affairs Department, Ramallah; Dr. Mohammad Dajani, Professor; Mohammad Hadieh, Executive Director, ACT for Alternative Dispute Resolution and Studies; Imad Khatib, PR, Al-Quds University; Hind Khoury, Secretary-General, Kairos Palestine; Fouad Hallak, Policy Advisor, PLO Negotiations Affairs Department, Ramallah; Lamis Alami, former Minister of Education; Palestinian Vision Organization (PalVision): Rami Nasser, Executive Director; Waad Qannam, Project Director; Walid Salem, Director, Center for Democracy and Community Development; Samer Nusseibeh, CEO and Vice President, Mohammed Zaki Nuseibeh & Sons Group; Mohammad Abu Khdeir, Journalist, Al-Quds Newspaper; Maher Daoudi, Senior Programme Manager, Humanitarian Assistance, Consulate General of Sweden, Jerusalem; Lucy Nusseibeh, Chair/Founder, Middle East Nonviolence and Democracy (MEND) Jerusalem, Chair, Nonviolent Peaceforce International, Geneva; Ismail Tazziz, Pharmacist; Hania Al-Bitar, Director General, Palestinian Youth Association for Leadership and Rights Activation - PYALARA; Hani Joulani Real-Estate Developer; Adnan Joulani, Project Director, PASSIA; Imad Farrah, PASSIA; Omar Farrah, Intern, PASSIA; Hind Husseini, PASSIA.
All Meetings & Workshops were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA
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31
Jul
2021

Arab Islamic and Christian Properties in Jerusalem in the Face of Israeli Planning Challenges

  • Organizer: PASSIA.
  • Location: Jerusalem.
Speakers: Eng. Fouad Dakkak, Consultant Engineer, Former Member of the Islamic Waqf Council.
Participants: Sheikh Abdul Azim Salhab, Head of the Islamic Waqf Council, Jerusalem; Dr. Usama Salman, Researcher on Christian Waqf & Christian Affairs; Shifa Jayousi, Project Coordinator, UNSCO; Ibrahim Matar, Researcher, Jerusalem, PalVision Team; Adnan Joulani, Project Manager, PASSIA.
All Meetings & Workshops were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA
1
Jul
2021

Jerusalem & Security Concerns

  • Organizer: PASSIA.
  • Location: PASSIA, Jerusalem.
Participants: Brigadier-General Jeannot Boucher, Deputy Coordinator-USSC, Task Force Commander, Operation PROTEUS, Jerusalem; Jamie Pennell, Political Counsellor, Representative of Canada, Ramallah; Caitlin Mounce, Advisor, Task Force Jerusalem, Op PROTEUS; Lynn Hastings, Deputy Special Coordinator, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, UNSCO; Shifa Jayousi, UNSCO; Els Debuf, Head of Mission, International Committee of the Red Cross – ICRC; Jumana Jaouni, Head of Mission Advisor, ICRC; Hannes Alpen, Director, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES); Dr. Bernard Sabella, Executive Secretary, Middle East Council of Churches (MECC), Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees (DSPR); Deniz Altayli, Program Director, PASSIA; Adnan Joulani, Project Manager, PASSIA; Leonie Martiny, Intern, PASSIA.
All Meetings & Workshops were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA
24
Jun
2021

The Present State of Palestinian Political Representa­tion and Options for Its Revival

  • Organizer: PASSIA.
  • Location: PASSIA Zoom Meeting.
Speakers: Salem Barahmeh, Executive Director, Palestine In­stitute for Public Diplomacy, Ramallah.
Participants: Hannes Alpen, Representative, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES); Lydia Tabtab, Deputy Consul of France, Media & Political Advisor; Brigadier-General Jeannot Boucher, Dep­uty Coordinator-USSC, Task Force Commander, Operation PRO­TEUS, Jerusalem; Osama Wazwaz, Cultural Advisor, Op­erations Proteus, Representative Office of Can­ada, Ramallah; Samer Nusseibeh, CEO and Vice President, Mohammed Zaki Nuseibeh & Sons Group; Samer Daoudi; Mahmoud Khweis; Deniz Altayli, Program Director, PASSIA; Adnan Joulani, Pro­ject Manager, PASSIA.
All Meetings & Workshops were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA
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18
Jun
2021

OP PROTEUS Annual Mess Dinner

  • Organizer: OP PROTEUS, Canadian Armed Forces.
  • Location: Legacy Hotel, Jerusalem.
All Meetings & Workshops were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA
10
May
2021

Jerusalem, the Holy Places and Recent Developments

  • Organizer: PASSIA.
  • Location: Islamic Waqf Council Office, Jerusalem.
Participants: EU Diplomatic Representatives, members of the Waqf Council.
All Meetings & Workshops were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA
1
Apr
2021

Protecting the Orthodox Christian Endowments in Jerusalem - Actions and Challenges

  • Organizer: PASSIA.
  • Location: Jerusalem.
Speakers: Dr. Bernard Sabella, Executive Secretary, Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees (DSPR), Middle East Council of Churches.
Participants: Niveen Abu Rahmoun, Member, Al-Tajamou' (BALAD) Political Party, Member of the 20th Knesset; Oday Bajali; Prof. Dr. Mustafa Abu Sway, Integral Chair for the Study of Imam Al-Ghazali's Work at the Holy Al-Aqsa Mosque and Al-Quds University; Mohammad Hadieh, Executive Director, ACT for Alternative Dispute Resolution and Studies; Khalil Issa, Project Manager & Advocacy Officer, Palestinian Vision Organization; Deniz Altayli, Program Director, PASSIA
All Meetings & Workshops were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA
17
Mar
2021

Law as a Tool of Colonialism: Israel's Mechanisms for Confiscating Property in Jerusalem

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  • Location: PASSIA Zoom Meeting.
Participants: Sheikh Abdel Athem Salhab, Chairman, Islamic Waqf Council; Mohammad Sarandah, Judge in Jerusalem’s Islamic Courts, Member, Islamic Waqf Council; Samer Nusseibeh, CEO and Vice President, Mohammed Zaki Nuseibeh & Sons Group; Prof. Khuloud Khayyat Dajani, Al-Quds University;Fardous Taha; Mazen Sinokrot, Businessman, Member of Al-Quds University Board of Trustees, Member, Islamic Waqf Council; Fouad Abdeen, Union of the Charitable Societies; Dr. Ola Awad, President, PCBS; Mohammad Al-Masri; Sami Irsheid, Lawyer, Jerusalem; Usama Halabi, Lawyer, Researcher, Jerusalem; Fouad Hallak, Policy Advisor, PLO Negotiations Affairs Department, Ramallah; Adv. Nabil Izhiman, Lawyer; Amjad Shihab, Al-Maqdisi College; Samia Khouri, Retiree; Bishop Dr. Munib A.Younan; Fahd Al-Shweiki, Attorney, Member, Islamic Waqf Council; Islam Al-Sous;Khalil Issa, Project Manager & Advocacy Officer, Palestinian Vision Organization; Mahmoud Bulbul; Maram Firawee; Mohammad Khalili; Mohmmad Sub Laban; Mohammad Hadieh, Executive Director, ACT for Alternative Dispute Resolution and Studies; Samia Wazeer; Nadia Harhash, Program Officer, HEKS-EPER, Jerusalem Office; Dr. Haitham Suleiman, Lecturer, Faculty of Law, AlQuds University; Dr. Suleiman Ghosheh, Medical Doctor, Jerusalem; Dr. Munir Nuseibah, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, Director, Al-Quds Human Rights Clinic and Community Action Center, Al-Quds University; Mousa Abu Ghazaleh; Adnan Joulani, Project Manager, PASSIA; Tareq Ghosheh, Intern, PASSIA; Dana Nuseibeh, Volunteer, PASSIA; Imad Farrah, PASSIA Team; Hind Husseini, PASSIA Team.
All Meetings & Workshops were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA
24
Feb
2021

After the Cairo Talks – What to Expect from the Palestinian Elections?

  • Organizer: PASSIA.
  • Location: PASSIA Zoom Meeting.
Speakers: Hani Al-Masri, Director General of Masarat, the Palestinian Center for Policy Research and Strategic Studies
Participants: Päivi Peltokoski Heikkinen, Head, Representative Office of Finland; Georgi Milenov, Head, Representative Office of Bulgaria; Pedro Blanco Pérez, Head, Representative Office of México; Giuseppe Fedele, Consul General, Italian Consulate; Astrid Wein, Head, Representative Office of Austria; Amb. Ahmet Riza Demirer, Acting Head, Consulate General of the Republic of Turkey in Jerusalem; Rocío Argomedo Traeger, Charge d'Affaires, Representative Office of Chile; Susana Fernandez Rodriguez, Programme Manager, Local Governance and Area C. EUREP; Olivia Eteneau, Deputy Consul General, French Consulate; Aoife Lyons, Representative of Ireland; Nevine Gamaleldin, First Secretary, Representative Office of Egypt; Fernando Mehler, First Secretary, Representative Office of Brazil; Jaime Gutiérrez, Spanish Consulate; Philip Haspeslagh, Head, Political Affairs, Belgian Consulate; Riccardo Filippo, Consul/Political Adviser, Italian Consulate; Amb. Afif Safieh, Palestinian Diplomat, UK; Jean-Christophe Augé, Center for Analysis, Planning and Strategy (CAPS), Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Advisor, Near and Middle East, North Africa – Religions; Niko Fritscher, Head of Cultural Section, German Representative Office; Ureib Amad, Representative Office of Finland; Wadi Razzouk, Senior Policy Advisor, Representative Office of the Netherlands; Michael Burke, UNSCO, Ramallah; Hélio Castilhos França Neto, Head, Field Legal Office, UNRWA, West Bank; Dr. Anja Zorob, Associate Professor, DAAD Longterm Lecturer, Birzeit University; Hannes Alpen, Representative of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Palestine; Rasmus Brandt, Program Manager, FES; Dr. Usama Antar, Senior Program Manager, FES; Nidal Al-Ayasa, Program Manager, FES; Malak Issa, Assistant & Media Coordinator, FES; Dr. Muriel Asseburg, Senior Fellow, Middle East and Africa Division German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin, Germany; Elie Podeh, Lecturer, Department of Islam and Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Rev. Gabriele Zander, Evangelical Center for Pilgrims, Auguste Victoria, Jerusalem; Georgina Woodhouse-Hills; Chris Whitman, Head of Office for Israel/Palestine, Medico International; Meejeong Hong, Professor, Dankook University, Korea; Nadia Harhash, Program Officer, HEKS-EPER, Jerusalem Office; Jumana Jaouni, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC); Shifa Jayousi, Program Officer, UNSCO; Terry Bullata, Senior Program Manager, Swiss Development Cooperation; Bishop Dr. Munib A.Younan; Mazen Sinokrot, Businessman, Member of Al-Quds University Board of Trustees, Member, Islamic Waqf Council; Fouad Abdeen, Union of the Charitable Societies; Andraous Jahshan, Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center; Fouad Hallak, Policy Advisor, PLO Negotiations Affairs Department, Ramallah; Mohammad Dajani, Founder, Wasatia Movement - Palestine, Director, Wasatia Graduate Academic Institute; Samer Nusseibeh, CEO and Vice President, Mohammed Zaki Nuseibeh & Sons Group; Prof. Khuloud Khayyat Dajani, Al-Quds University; Nina Clark; Nota Sarafoudi; Samia Wazeer; Meera Fayez Al-Aqaraa; Deniz Altayli, Program Director, PASSIA; Adnan Joulani, Project Manager, PASSIA; Leonie Martiny, Intern, PASSIA; Hind Husseini, PASSIA.
All Meetings & Workshops were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA
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21
Feb
2021

The Waqf Council after Two Years - Review and Future Perspectives

  • Organizer: PASSIA.
  • Location: Jerusalem.
Participants: Sheikh Abdel Athem Salhab, Chairman, Islamic Waqf Council; Mohammad Sarandah, Judge in Jerusalem’s Islamic Courts, Member, Islamic Waqf Council; Sheikh Azzam Al-Khatib, Director of the Islamic Waqf Department, Member, Islamic Waqf Council; Dr. Wasfi Kilani, Hashemite Fund for the Restoration of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock; Sheikh Jamil Hamami, Secretary General, the Islamic Higher Committee; Eng. Mazen Sinokrot, Businessman, Head, Al-Quds Holding, Former Member, Islamic Waqf Council; Adv. Fahd Al-Shweiki, Member, Islamic Waqf Council; Khalil Al-Asali, Member, Islamic Waqf Council; Dr. Mohammed Ibrahim Nasser Eddin, Vice & Financial General Director, the Islamic Waqf Department, Member, Islamic Waqf Council; Dr. Hani Abdeen, Member, Islamic Waqf Council, Dean of Medical School, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem; Adnan Joulani, Project Manager, PASSIA.
All Meetings & Workshops were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA
7
Dec
2020

The Question of Jerusalem

  • Organizer: PASSIA.
  • Location: PASSIA, Jerusalem.
Participants: Dr. Munir Nuseibah, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, Director, Al-Quds Human Rights Clinic and Community Action Center, Al-Quds University, and MA Students from the Center for Jerusalem Studies, Al-Quds University: Vered Kaesar, Rania Useleh, Adv. Isam Abu Ghazaleh, Zhraa Abu Kalid.
All Meetings & Workshops were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA
1
Dec
2020

Recent Regional Developments

  • Organizer: PASSIA.
  • Location: PASSIA, Jerusalem.
Participants: Ofer Zalzberg, Middle East Program Director, Kelman Institute for Conflict Transformation, Jerusalem; Eran Tzidkiyahu, Researcher; Deniz Altayli, Program Director, PASSIA; Adnan Joulani, Project Manager, PASSIA.
All Meetings & Workshops were attended by Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi, Head of PASSIA