Moderated by : François Ceccaldi
Dima Alsajdeya holds a PhD in political science and international relations, is a research associate at the Contemporary History of the Arab World Chair at the Collège de France and at the Centre Thucydide (Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas), and is a lecturer at Sciences Po Paris. Her research focuses on the place of the Israeli-Palestinian question in Egyptian foreign policy and on power dynamics in Palestine. She is a member of the editorial board of the journal Confluences Méditerranée. With François Ceccaldi and Emilio Dabed, she co-edited " Pouvoir(s) en Palestine ", Confluences Méditerranée, 2021). Her latest publication is " La Cisjordanie, l'arrière-plan de la guerre israélienne contre Gaza "(Confluences Méditerranée, 2023).
Alain Gresh is a journalist specializing in the Middle East, director of the journal Orient XXI and former editor-in-chief of Le Monde diplomatique. He is the author of several books, including De quoi la Palestine est-elle le nom ? (Les Liens qui libèrent, 2010) and Un chant d'amour. Israël-Palestine, une histoire française, with Hélène Aldeguer (La Découverte, 2017). He also prefaced, introduced and contextualized Le Fatah. La révolution palestinienne et les Juifs, a text published in spring 1970 by Fatah and reissued in 2021 (Orient XXI - Libertalia).
François Ceccaldi is a political scientist, holds a doctorate in political studies from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) and is a researcher at the Contemporary History of the Arab World chair at the Collège de France. He is President of the Cercle des chercheurs sur le Moyen-Orient (CCMO) and also teaches at Sciences Po Paris. His research has focused on the PLO's left-wing factions and the formulation of a political opposition within the Palestinian national movement after the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993. He has published several analyses of Palestinian political dynamics, and more recently has focused on the question of power and representation in Palestine. His latest publications include " La Palestine face à la guerre en Ukraine "(Annuaire français des relations internationales, 2023), " Les relations entre Israël et l'OLP (1967-1993) : l'impossible dialogue ? ", Fréquenter les infréquentables (CNRS, 2023) and " La disqualification des interlocuteurs palestiniens par Israël "(Confluences Méditerranée, 2023).
