Dr Sara Roy

Senior Research Scholar, Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

Beyond Occupation? Examining the New Reality in Israel and Palestine

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Date: Thursday 9th October 2008

Time: 6:30pm

Venue: Social Sciences Lecture Theatre, UWA

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The CMSS and FOPWA presents Dr Sara Roy who will examine critical changes in the way the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is conceptualized, understood and addressed. Dr Roy will explore key paradigmatic shifts at the political, social and economic levels and argue that these shifts collectively represent a critical turning point regarding the possibility of achieving a meaningful and politically and economically sustainable resolution of the conflict. She will argue that in the absence of immediate redress, the transformations described will preclude any viable outcome for years if not decades to come.

Dr. Sara Roy is a senior research scholar at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. Trained as a political economist, Dr. Roy has worked in the Gaza Strip and West Bank since 1985 conducting research primarily on the economic, social and political development of the Gaza Strip and on U.S. foreign aid to the region. She has written extensively on the Palestinian economy, particularly in Gaza, and has documented its development over the last three decades.

Her current research, examines the social and economic sectors of the Palestinian Islamic movement and their relationship to Islamic political institutions, and the critical changes to the Islamic movement that have occurred over the last seven years. Her primary findings point to a restructuring and de-radicalization of the Islamist movement in the West Bank and Gaza Strip prior to the start of the second Palestinian uprising.

Dr. Roy is the author of several books including The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development (1995, 2001); The Gaza Strip Survey (1986); and Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (London: Pluto Press, 2007).

Co-hosted by Friends of Palestine WA (FOPWA) and the Centre for Muslim States and Societies

All Welcome

Enquiries: CMSS, Phone: 6488 4554, Email: cmss @ uwa.edu.au, Web: www.cmss.uwa.edu.au

Enquiries: FOPWA, Phone: 0407 850 962, Email: alexw @ iinet.net.au

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VIDEO: On The Map with Avi Lewis

Aired on June 5, 2007

Turmoil in Gaza is set against a chronic economic crisis. Soaring unemployment levels and poverty are exacerbated by border closures and international boycotts.

Avi talks to Gaza expert Sara Roy, a political economist from Harvard University. She has been studying the Palestinian economy for more than twenty years.