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The question of whether ‘States of Emergency are fast becoming the rule and not ‎an exception in the MENA region during COVID-19’ is pertinent. Thus, we ‎would like to explore in this Webinar if Palestine’s response to COVID-19 ‎demonstrates what Giorgio Agamben calls ‘the State of Exception,’ wherein ‎exceptional laws and powers become normalized.‎


Name

Title and Affiliation

Presentation

Sanaa Alsarghali

Chair  of the Panel:

Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law / Director of the Constitutional Studies Center at An-Najah National University.

“Introduction to Constitutions and State of Exception: Main Focus Palestine”

Simon Mabon

Professor, Chair in International Politics at Lancaster University / Director of the Richardson Institute.

“State of exception and MEANA region”

Nathan Brown

Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University.

“The Evolution of Constitutionalism and Emergencies in the Arab World”

Francesco Biagi

Senior Assistant Professor of Comparative Public Law at the Department of Legal Studies of the University of Bologna.

“Arab constitutional courts in times of emergency”

Asem Khalil

Professor of public law/ Chair of H.H. Shaikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani of Constitutional & International Law at Birzeit University.

“Beyond the COVID-19 Palestinian Internal Emergency Debate: Permanent State of Exception, Multiple Emergency, and the Absent Sovereign”

Discussion (6:00-6:30)

 

 


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