Washington D.C. - Eti Livni & Nazir Magally
Challenges to Israeli Arab Society
Speaker: Eti Livni, Former Deputy Speaker of the Knesset
Speaker: Nazir Magally, Israeli Arab Journalist
Facilitator: Ori Nir, Spokesman, Americans for Peace Now
Eti Livni
Eti Livni is committed to human and women’s rights causes in Israel. She is a member of the leading committee of the Geneva Accords and a member of numerous NGOs, including TIKUN, which targets national issues of corruption and change in democratic patterns, along with one that calls for negotiations with Syria. From 2005-2006, she was a member of the International Women’s Commission (IWC) for a just and sustainable Palestinian-Israeli peace. From 2003-2006, she was the Deputy Speaker of the Knesset where she was also a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee; the Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee; and the head of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Knesset. By profession, she is a lawyer specializing in commercial law, intellectual property, human rights, and women’s rights. She was also an active member of the Israel Bar Association, serving on several committees.
Nazir Magally Zubeidat
Nazir Magally Zubeidat is an Israeli-Arab journalist, whose articles have appeared in the London Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Ha’aretz, Eretz Acheret, and the Palestinian Al-Ayam. He is also a frequent television commentator who has appeared on several Arab television stations including, Al-Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Palestinian Television. He was a professor at Ben-Gurion University from 2004-2006. Mr. Magally has published four books on journalism, including Free Journalism and Journalism and Human Rights. In 2003, Mr. Magally organized, together with Priest Emil Shufanni of Nazareth, a joint visit of senior Arab and Jewish Israelis to Auschwitz. He is the head of N.A.S.-remembering the Pain for Peace, a program that fosters dialogue between Jews in Israel and around the world and Arabs in Israel and around the world on the basis of understanding pain.
Ori Nir
Ori Nir, currently the spokesman of Americans for Peace Now (APN), has spent much of his career as a journalist covering Palestinian and Arab affairs. Most recently, he was the Washington Bureau Chief of the Forward. Before joining the Forward, Mr. Nir covered Israel’s Arab minority for Ha’aretz Daily, Israel’s leading newspaper, from October 2000 to July 2002. He has held several journalistic positions at Ha’aretz, including Washington Correspondent and U.S. West Coast Correspondent. He also covered Palestinian affairs for Ha’aretz during the first years of the Palestinian uprising (intifada) and through the troubled implementation of the first phases of the Oslo Accords.