This is a contact I sent to this list almost a year ago. When I was asked to reach out to anyone and see if there is someone interested in coordinating with the WM11 team. I was told by my Palestinian-American friends that this university and its dean have campuses in East Jerusalem and the WB, making it easy for Israelis to contact. The dean's cv has his phone and email. It would be good if he is contacted to see if he is willing to help.
http://sari.alquds.edu/cv_sari.htm http://www.alquds.edu/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Quds_University http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sari_Nusseibeh On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Asaf Bartov <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:33 AM, Kim Bruning <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The problem is that BDS (and others?) are explicitly acting against >> wikimania. I'd love to hear more reports >> on this. I think having a wikimania in haifa is actually going >> to be beneficial to all parties. :-) >> > > Strictly speaking, we don't actually know this to be a problem. There is > no proof of the BDS campaign having dissuaded large numbers of potential > attendees, especially from Arab countries. Any such potential attendees > would have been dissuaded by other reasons, already discussed extensively on > this and other lists, -- political climate in their countries, personal > perception of attendance as implicit support of the Israeli government > policy, etc.. > > By all means go on publicizing WM2011 among Arabic speakers. Once again, > the local team has made it clear it is committed to helping anyone who would > like to attend. But perhaps it's time to stop pretending it is entirely up > to us whether Arabic speakers would be well-represented in this Wikimania or > not? > > Asaf > -- > Asaf Bartov > (personal opinion) > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > > -- Best Regards, Muhammad Yahia
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