Palestine Museum of Natural History' https://www.palestinenature.org

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Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh
• Previously at Duke and Yale, now
Bethlehem University. Founded
number of laboratories (& organizations
on human rights)
• Clinical and Research Cytogenetics
Laboratory, Founded 2009
• Palestine Museum of Natural History,
Founded 2014

2. Fertile Crescent
‫الهالل‬‫الخصيب‬

4. Photo: Anton Khalilieh
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500 ‫مليون‬‫طائر‬‫مهاجر‬‫يمر‬‫من‬‫فلسطين‬‫سنويا‬ ( ‫أوروبا‬‫إلفريقيا‬ )
500 million migrating birds pass over Palestine on
annual migrations Europe to Africa

5. Sir Mark Sykes 1916 François Georges-Picot
Arthur James Balfour 1917 Jules Martin Cambon

7. Settler colonialism

8. 7 million of 12 million Palestinians are refugees or displaced people

9. 1967- Israel occupies then colonizes the remaining 22% of Palestine
(& USS Liberty is deliberately attacked) Qumsiyeh.org

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16. Challenges: Mega projects
‫-تحديات‬ ‫تحويل‬‫مياه‬‫حوض‬‫األردن‬

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Origin of International Solidarity Movement
• Unique model of a global participation in the struggle
• Ideas started in the 1987 uprising. Tax revolt in Beit
Sahour and founding of PCR in 1988
• 1990s more participation
• Event to challeng Ush Ghrab camp 28/12/2000,
formalized spring 2001

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