Any updates on this? did you guys manage to contact him? On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Muhammad Yahia <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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 > -- Best Regards, Muhammad Yahia
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