Roma:Minority Rights and Multiculturalism in the Arab World (25-26 march 2011)

ISTITUTO DI STUDI POLITICI SAN PIO V ROMA
LUISS – LIBERA UNIVERSITA' DI STUDI SOCIALI GUIDO CARLI
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY

Conference

Minority Rights and Multiculturalism in the Arab World

25 – 26 March 2011
Centro Congressi “Gli Archi”
Largo S. Lucia Filippini 20, Roma

Friday 25 March

9.00 Morning session
Introduction: Will Kymlicka
Panel 1: Overview State-Minority Relations in the Arab World
Chair: Will Kymlicka
Joshua Castellino, The Role of Law in the Minority Rights Discourse in the Middle East
Janet Klein, Minorities and Multiculturalism in the Arab World: A View from History and the Periphery
Commentator: Fahima Charafeddine
Discussion

11.00 Coffee break

Panel 2: State-Minority Relations in North Africa
Jacob Mundy, Representing Sahrawis: the contested meanings of a post-colonial identity
Eva Pföstl, The Role of the Amazigh Movement in the Processes of Political Reform in Postcolonial Algerian Society
Commentator: Paola Pizzo
Discussion

14.00 Lunch

15.00 Afternoon session
Panel 3: Ethnicity and Religion
Chair: Eva Pföstl
Francesca Corrao, Minorities rights at stake: is it a religious or a political crisis?
Joseph Yacoub, How the Arab World deal with Minorities and Multiculturalism? Case-study: The Assyro- Chaldeans in Iraq
Commentator: Giuseppe Scattolin
Discussion

Saturday 26 March

9.00 Morning session
Chair: Sebastiano Maffettone
Panel 4: Models of multiculturalism in the Arab World
Zaid Eyadat, Minorities in the Arab world: Beyond Dhimi Model
Hassan Jabareen, The Concept of `We the People’ under Israeli Constitutionalism”.
Commentator: Will Kymlicka
Discussion

11.00 Coffee break

Panel 5: Concluding Roundtable with Shoba Das, Hassan Hanafi, Sebastiano Maffettone, Will Kymlicka

Info and registration:

Istituto di Studi Politici S. Pio V
Corso Rinascimento, 19 – 00186 Roma
Tel. 06/6879580
email: segreteria.ricerca.spiov@gmail.com