Präsentation und Gespräch mit “ALFA - A Land for All”
Sprache: Englisch ・ Auf Einladung
Info
2025 Thomas Mann Fellow and Islamic Studies scholar Sonja Hegasy will be in conversation with Omar Dajani and Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Fuller to talk about the initiative “A Land for All: Two States, One Homeland,” founded in 2012. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A.
“A Land for All” (ALFA) is a joint Israeli-Palestinian political initiative founded by people who know the conflict in their daily life. Together, they have crafted a new shared political vision rejecting zero-sum thinking on complex issues like Jerusalem, settlements, and refugees. ALFA proposes a confederation model with gradual steps toward freedom of movement and residence for all Israelis and Palestinians across a shared homeland. The model offers national self-determination without domination, shared governance without erasing identity, and security without subjugation.
Participants
Sonja Hegasy is Deputy Director of the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. She studied Arabic and Islamic Studies at Columbia University and completed her doctorate in political science at FU Berlin. In 2019–2021, she held the professorship for Postcolonial Studies at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin. In 2023, she was a Senior Fellow at the M.S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies “Metamorphoses of the Political” in Delhi.
Omar M. Dajani is the Carol Olson Professor of International Law at McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific in California. He is also the immediate past co-chair of the joint board of A Land for All, on which he continues to serve. Previously, Omar served as a legal adviser to the Palestinian negotiating team in peace talks with Israel from 1999 to 2001, participating in the summits at Camp David and Taba. He received his B.A. from Northwestern University and his J.D. from Yale Law School.
Chaim Seidler-Feller has been associated with Hillel for over 50 years and has celebrated forty years of working with students and faculty as the Executive Director of the Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA. He is currently Director Emeritus. He is currently a faculty member of the Shalom Hartman Institute, North America and is an organizer for "A Land for All" in the U.S. He was a founding member of Americans for Peace Now. Chaim is the author most recently of “The God of Possibilities: From Being to Becoming,” "'Twas the Best of Times, ‘Twas the Worst of Times: Antisemitism, Israel and the Politics of Resentment on the Campus Today,” and “A Return to a Zionism for the Future.”