Political sociology and economic sociology of the Palestinian diaspora and refugees; sociology of migration; transnationalism; politics of scientific research; civil society; elite formation; transitional justice.

From February 7, 2005: Associate professor of Sociology in American University of Beirut.

*1994	・Ph. D. in Sociology (new regime), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales-Paris. Thesis on "Les ingenieurs en Syrie. Modernisation, technobureaucratie et identite", supervisor: Michel Wieviorka. First class with distinction (mention: Tres Honorable)
*1989	・Master's degree (D.E.A.) "Sciences et Techniques dans l'Histoire, la Culture et l'Organisation des societes", University of Strasbourg. Thesis on "La formation des ingenieurs en Syrie et son adaptation aux besoins de la societe", supervisor: Philippe Breton.
*1987	・B.A. Sociology, Damascus University, First class.
*1984	・B. SC. Civil Engineering, Damascus University, First class.

*10/2000-   1/2005	・Director of Palestinian Refugee and Diaspora Centre, Shaml. ・Duties: administration of Shaml; coordinating of 6 research programs; fundraising of 15 projects; team leader of the research program "Sociology of the Palestinian Return Migration"
*1/1998-   2001	・Associated Researcher at Muwatin (the Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy) conducting two researches: ・Team leader of Research project: 'Donors, International organization and Local NGOs: Agenda Setting and Networking' ・Participant of the joint project involving Muwatin and CMI (Bergen- Norway) to examine the Impact of Rent-Seeking and Corruption on State Formation in Palestine during the Oslo Interim Period. The three year project employed three external consultants and seven Palestinian economists and sociologists to produce a comprehensive edited volume on state formation in Palestine.
*10/1998-   9/2000	・Senior Researcher at the Centre d'etudes et de documentation economique juridique et sociale in Cairo (CEDEJ) (French research center) ・Duties: coordinator of two research programs: 'Economic Sociology of the Palestinian Diaspora' and 'NGOs in the Arab World'.
*5/1998-   11/1998	・Senior Researcher at Welfare Association in Jerusalem, coordinator of a survey and database on donors assistance to the Palestinian NGOs.
*2/1995-   9/1997	・Senior Researcher at the Centre d'etudes et de documentation economique juridique et sociale in Cairo (CEDEJ), team leader of the research program "Palestinian Economy in the Diaspora".
*2/1991-   6/1994	・Associated Researcher at GREMO (Groupe de Recherches et d'Etudes sur le Moyen-Orient), Maison de l'Orient Mediterraneen - CNRS, Lyon, France.
*8/1984-   9/1986	・Researcher in the Social Research Center in Damascus. Participation in the fieldworks and analysis of a research project on rural development.

*2004	・Cooperation for Scientific and University Research (program of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs): 'Modes of Entrepreneurship of Locals, Transmigrants and Return migrants in Palestinian Territories' (coordinator and researcher of a 4-scolor research team)
*2003	・L'Institut des Sciences et des Techniques de l'Equipement et de l'Environnement pour le Developpement (ISTED- France) : 'Study of the rehabilitation of historical centers in Bethlehem and Hebron'. (Researcher of a 4-scolor research team)
*2002	・International Development Research Center (IDRC- Ottawa): 'Critical Perspectives on the Absorption of Palestinian Refugees in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel'. (Team leader of a 8-scholar research group)
*1999-   2001	・Muwatin Center (Ramallah) and CMI (Bergen- Norway): 'Impact of Rent-Seeking and Corruption on State Formation in Palestine during the Oslo Interim Period'. (Core member of a 9-scholor research group).
*1996-   1998	・International Development Research Center and Muwatin center: 'Donors, International organization and Local NGOs: Agenda Setting and Networking' (Team leader and researcher)
*1995	・Middle East Awards (Population Council and Ford Foundation): 'Palestinian Return Migration'
*1995-   1996	*European Commission and CEDEJ (Cairo): 'Palestinian Economy in the Diaspora' (team leader and researcher of a 6-scholor research group)
*1995	・Social Sciences and the Middle East Research Competition (MERC) (Ford Foundation -Cairo): "Palestinian Diaspora: Economy and Identity'
*1993	・Ibn Khaldoun Center (Cairo): 'Civil Society in Palestinian Territories'
*1992	・CEDEJ (Cairo): 'Palestinian Economy in Syria'
*1990-   1993	・French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ph. D. Grant: 'Les ingenieurs en Syrie. Modernisation, technobureaucratie et identite'

*2007-	・Editor, Idafat, Arab Journal of Sociology, Association of Arab Sociology
*2007-	・Research Committee Member, Mustaqbal al-Arabi [Arab Future]. Beirut: Center of Arab Unity Studies.
*2007-	・Research Committee Member, Institute of Palestine Studies.
*2007-	・Advisory Board of Journal of Diaspora Studies. School of International Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University. New Delhi.
*2006-	・Correspondance for the Middle East, Revue Europeenne des Migrations Internationales. Poitiers (France): CNRS
*2005-	・Advisory board of De l'autre cote, Paris.
*2004-	・Advisory board of Forced Migration Review, Oxford, UK.

*Forth-coming	(With Monique Hirschhorn and Elena Qleibo) Urbanism and Conflict. The Case of Hebron and Bethlehem. Paris: Harmattan.
*2009	(With Adi Ophir and Michal Giovanni) (Ed.) The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. New York: Zone Books.
*2008	(Ed.) Crossing borders, shifting boundaries: Palestinian Dilemmas. American University in Cairo Press. 2008, In Arabic: Crossing borders, shifting boundaries: Sociology of the Palestinian Return. Beirut: Center of Arab Unity Studies.
*2007	(With Eyal Benvenisti and Chaim Gans) (Ed.) Israel and the Palestinian Refugees. Berlin: Springer and Max-Planck Institute. 510p.
*2005	(with Linda Tabar) Donors, International organizations, local NGOs. Emergence of the Palestinian Globalized Elite. Washington: Palestinian Studies Institute and Ramallah: Muwatin. in Arabic: 2006, Ramallah: Muwatin and Institute for Jerusalem Studies.400 p.
*2005	(with S. Ben nefissa, N. Abdel Fattah and C. Milani) (Eds.) NGOs and Governance in the Arab World. Issues, Problems and Case Studies. Cairo: American University of Cairo Press. In French: 2004, ONG et gouvernance dans le monde arabe. Paris: Karthala and CEDEJ. In Arabic: 2004. Cairo: Center of Political and Strategic Studies of Al Ahram
*2002	(with Sarah Bennefissa) (Eds.) Pouvoir et associations dans le monde arabe, Paris: CNRS.
*2001	Hona wa honaq : nahwa tahlil lil 'alaqa bin al-shatat al-falastini wa al markaz (Here and There: Towards an Analysis of the Relationship between the Palestinian Diaspora and the Center), Ramallah : Muwatin, Jerusalem : Institute of Jerusalem Studies (distribution Beirut : Institute of Palestine Studies)
*1998	Business Directory of Palestinian in the Diaspora, Jerusalem: Biladi, (In English, French and Arabic).
*1997	Entre Deux Mondes. Les hommes d'affaires palestiniens et la construction de l'entite palestinienne, Cairo : CEDEJ.
*1997	La Syrie des ingenieurs. Perspective comparee avec l'Egypte, Paris : Karthala.
*1996	Bayna 'alamayn. Rijal al-a'mal al falastiniyyin fi al-shatat wa bina al qayan al falastini (Between Two Worlds: Palestinian Businessmen in the Diaspora and the Construction of a Palestinian Entity), two editions: Cairo, Dar al-Mostaqbal al-arabi, & Ramallah: Muwatin (Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy), January (in Arabic).

*forth-coming	"Flexible Citizenship and the Inflexible Nation-State. Assessing the Palestinian Refugees Movements". J. Husseini & Aud Signole (Eds.) Palestinian Diaspora. Paris: Karthala.
Forth-coming	"Coupling Refugees Issues with Land Issue. Spatio-cide and Bio-politics in the Israeli Project" and "Sociology of the Palestinian Return" in S. Hanafi (ed.) Palestinian Sociology of Return. American University in Cairo Press.
2008	"Palestinian Return Migration: Toward New Understanding". S. Hanafi (Ed.) Crossing borders, shifting boundaries: Palestinian Return Migration. Beirut: Center of Arab Unity Studies. (in Arabic)
2008	"Virtual and Real Returns". S. Hanafi (Ed.) Crossing borders, shifting boundaries: Palestinian Dilemmas. American University in Cairo Press. 2008, In Arabic: Beirut: Center of Arab Unity Studies.
2008	"Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon: Laboratories of State-in-the-Making, Discipline and Islamist Radicalism". Ronit Lentin (Ed.) Thinking Palestine. London: Z books, pp. 82-100.
2007	'Dancing tango during the Peacebuilding: Palestinian- Israeli People to People programs for Conflict Resolution', Judy Kuriansky (ed) Beyond Bullets & Bombs. Grassroots Peacebuilding between Israelis and Palestinians. Westport, Connecticut, London: Praeger, pp. 69-80.
2007	(with R. Brooks, R. Khamaisi, A. Hidmi & Sh. Wa'ary) "IPCC Survey of Jerusalemite Perceptions of the Impact of the Wall on Everyday Life" . Robert Brooks (Ed.) The Wall. Fragmenting the Palestinian Fabric in Jerusalem. Jerusalem: International Peace and Cooperation Center, pp.137-151.
2007	"Social capital, transnational kinship and refugee repatriation process: some elements for a Palestinian sociology of return" Rex Brynen and Roula El-Rifai (Eds.) Palestinian Refugees. Challenges of Repatriation and Development. London: I.B. Tauris/IDRC, pp. 46-78.
2007	"The Sociology of Return: Palestinian Social Capital, Transitional Kinships and the Refugee Repatriation Process" in S. Hanafi E. Benvenisti and C. Gans (eds.) Israel and the Palestinian Refugees. USA: Springer, pp. 3-40. Some elements of this article were published in the book by Brynen and El-Rifai.
2007	"Palestinian Refugees, Citizenship and the Nation-State". Francoise De Bel-Air (Ed.) Migration et politique au Moyen-Orient. Amman: IFPO, pp. 145-162. This is an Advanced version of the article published at PASSIA (2006).
2006	"Revenir dans les territoires : retournees, zones de souverainete et crise de l'etat-nation" Nadine Picaudou & Isabel Rivoal. (eds.) Retours en Palestine. Trajectories, role et experiences des returnees dans la societe palestinienne apres Oslo. Karthala, pp. 19-45.
2006	(with Linda Taber) "The 'Women and Development' Discourse and Donor Intervention in Palestine". Ulrika Auga and Christina Von Braun (Eds.) Gender in Conflict. Berlin: LIT VERLAG, pp. 199-234.
2006	"Spacio-cide" in Philipp Misselwitz and Tim Rieniets (Eds.) City of Collision. Jerusalem and the Principles of Conflict Urbanism. Birkhauser- Publishers for Architecture, pp. 93-101. This is a short version of the article that was published in Sorkin's book.
2006	"Palestinian return migration. Lessons from the International Refugee Regime" in Michael Dumper (Ed.) Palestinian Refugee Repatriation. Global Perspective. Routledge. pp. 273-287
2006	"Opening the Debate of the Right of Return" in by Joel Beinin and Rebecca L. Stein (Ed.) The Struggle for Sovereignty Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005. Stanford University Press.
2005	"Finding a Just Solution for Palestinian Refugee Problem. Toward an Extra-territorial Nation-States" in Mahdi Abdul Hadi (Ed.) Palestinian-Israel Impasse. Exploring Alternative Solutions to the Palestine-Israel Conflict. Jerusalem: PASSIA. pp. 187-204
2005	"Spacio-cide and bio-politics: Israeli colonial project. From 1947 to the Wall". Michael Sorkin (Ed.) Against the Wall. Israel's Barrier to Peace. New York: The New Press.
2005	"Palestine: the social and political dimension of migration" in Philippe Fargues (Ed.) Mediterranean Migration. 2005 report. Florence: European University Institute. pp.251-261.
2005	"Diaspora with Fragile Center of Gravity: the Virtual Return of the Palestinian Communities", in Lisa Anteby-Yemini, William Berthomiere and Gabriel Sheffer (Eds.) Les Diasporas. 2000 ans d'Histoire. Rennes (France): Presses Universitaires de Rennes, pp. 225-245.
2005	"The impact of Social Capital on the Eventual Repatriation Process of Refugees. Study of Economic and Social Transnational Kinship Networks in Palestine/Israel", in Ann Lesch and Ian Lustick (eds.) Exile & Return. Predicaments of Palestinians and Jews. University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 57-84.
2005	'Physical return, Virtual return. Palestinian Communities in Europe and the Homeland', Abbas Shiblak (ed.) The Palestinian Communities in Europe. Issues of integration. Ramallah: Shaml and Institute for Jerusalem Studies. (In Arabic)
2004	(with Linda Tabar) "Donor Assistance, Rent-Seeking and Elite Formation." Inge Amundsen, Mushtaq Husain Khan and George Giacaman (Ed.) State formation in Palestine: viability and governance during a social transformation. London/N.Y.: Routledge Curzon 250 p.
2004	'Rethinking the Palestinian abroad as diaspora. The Relationships between the Diaspora and the Palestinian Territories', in Andre Levy and Alex Weingrod Diasporas and Holy Lands and Other Places. Standford University Press.
2004	"The Palestinian Diaspora during the Intifada. Right of Return and New Form of Mobilization without Radicalization" in Nitza Nachmias & Rami Goldstein (eds.) The politics of forced migration: A conceptual, operational and legal analysis. Baltimore: Publish America.
2004	"Humanitarian Movement and Humanizing the Political Conflict: the Case of the Second Intifada" in Arab Commission for Human Rights, Relief of Needed People. Paris: Editions Eurabe and Damascus: Al Ahali. (Arabic)
2004	(With Linda Taber) "The Intifada and the Aid Industry: the Impact of New Liberal Agenda on the Palestinian NGOs" in Yasser Akawi, Gabriel Angelone and Lisa Nessan (Ed.) From Communal Strife to Global Struggle: Justice for the Palestinian People. Jerusalem: AIC.
2004	"Flexible Transnational Survival Practices of Palestinian Transmigrants/Returnees, and Inflexible State Policies: Crafting the Palestinian Extraterritorialized Nation State" in International Organization for Migration and League of Arab States (Ed.) Arab Migration in a Globalized World. Cairo: International Organization for Migration and League of Arab States pp. 299-253.
2003	(with Mohamed Kamel Dorai) "Des refugies avant le H.C.R.: les Palestiniens" in Michelle Guillon, Luc Legoux, Emmanuel Ma Mung L'asile politique dans l'immigration. Paris : L'Harmattan.
2003	'La diaspora palestinienne a l'heure de l'intifada : Droit de retour et nouvelle forme de mobilisation sans radicalisation', in Alain Dieckhoff and Remy Leveau (ed.), Israeliens et Palestiniens. La guerre en partage, Paris : Balland, coll. "Voix et regards".
2002	'Les ONG palestiniennes et les bailleurs de fonds. Quelques elements sur la formation d'un agenda' in Sarah Bennefissa et Sari Hanafi (ed.) Les associations dans le monde arabe. Pouvoir et politique, Paris: Edition CNRS.
2001	"Dubai comme Carrefour du trafic humain. La communaute d'affaires palestinienne dans son insertion economique et sa marginalite sociale " in Roland Marchal (ed.), Dubai. Cite globale, Paris: CNRS.
2000	"Penser le rapport diaspora, centre. La contribution de la diaspora palestinienne a l'economie des Territoires", in Houchan Hassan-Yari (Ed.) Le processus de paix au Moyen-Orient, Paris: Harmattan.
1999	"The Image of Others, between Arabic and French Agendas", in Seteney Shamy & Linda Herrera (ed.), Social Science in Egypt: Emerging Voices, Cairo: AUC.
1999	"Investment by the Palestinian Diaspora in the manufacturing Sectors of the West Bank and Gaza Strip", in ESCWA (ed.), Proceedings of the Expert Group Meeting on the Impact of the Peace Process on Selected Sectors, Amman: USCWA, p. 201-26.
1997	"Capital desobeissant? Les hommes d'affaires palestiniens de la diaspora et la construction de l'entite palestinienne", in Riccardo Bocco, Blandine Destremau & Jean Honnoyer (ed.), Palestine, palestiniens. Territoire national, espaces communautaires, (Cahier du CERMOC n 17), Amman: CERMOC.
1996	(with Olivier Sanmartin) " Border Stories : Palestinians in Northern Sinai" in Sari Hanafi, Olivier Sanmartin & Abdel Qader Yassin (ed.) The Palestinians in Egypt and Northern Sinai, Ramallah: Palestinian Diaspora and Refugee Center, Shaml (in Arabic). (English version in www.shaml.org)
1995	"Les entrepreneurs palestiniens en Syrie" in Philippe Fargues and Louis Blin (ed.), Economie en Proche-Orient dans une perspective de paix, Paris: Maisonneuve.
1990	"La formation des ingenieurs en Syrie", in E. Longuenesse (ed.), Batisseurs et Bureaucrates - ingenieurs et societe au Maghreb et au Moyen-Orient, Lyon : Maison de l'Orient.

2009	'Spacio-cide. Colonial Politics, Invisibility and Rezoning in Palestinian territory.' Contemporary Arab Affairs. London: Routledge and CAUS Vol. 1-4.
Forth-coming	"Cultural Difference or Cultural Hegemony? Contextualizing the Danish Cartoon Controversy within Migration Spaces". Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication. London: Roudledge.
forth-coming	(With Age A. Tiltnes) "The Employability of Palestinian Professionals in Lebanon: Constraints and Transgression". Knowledge Work and Society. Vol 5, n°1-2. Paris: Harmattan.
2008	"Nahr al-Bared Refugee Camps in Lebanon As a Space of Exception". Asylon. Numero 5, Sept. Paris : online Journal http://terra.rezo.net/rubrique146.html (Eds. of Kamel Dorai [CNRS] & Nicolas Puig [IRD])
2008	"Refugies palestiniens, citoyennete et Etat-nation". Hommes & Migrations. Special issue : Mondialisation et migrations Internationales. Coordinated par Catherine Wihtol de Wenden, CNRS, CERI, Sciences-Po. Issue no 1272. March- April.
2007	"Kulturelle Differenz oder kulturelle Hegemonie?" (Cultural Differences or Cultural Hegemony?). Polylog. Zeitschrift Fur Interkulturelles Philosophieren. Wien (Austria): Institute of Philosophy. No 17, pp. 25-39.
2006	(With Linda Tabar) "The New Palestinian Globalized Elite". Majallat al-Dirasat al-Filastiniyah (Arabic Quarterly of the Journal of Palestine Studies). Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies. No 67, Summer, pp.73-95. (in Arabic)
2006	"Vivre dans le camp, vivre ailleurs : Les Palestiniens refugies en Egypte et dans les Territoires palestiniens" GEOGRAPHIES. Bulletin de l'Association des Geographes Francais. Association de Geographes Francais. Vol. 83, N°. 1, Paris, pp. 76-92.
2006	"Spacio-cide and bio-politics: Israeli colonial project. From 1947 to the Wall". Naqd. Revue d'Etudes et de Critique Sociale. No 21, Fall 2005, Alger. (in Arabic)
2006	"Penser les Palestiniens de l'exterieur comme diaspora". De l'Autre Cote. Paris: La fabrique. pp. 42-56.
2005	Reshaping geography: Palestinian community networks in Europe and the new media. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, v31 (3), p581(18).
2005	(With Linda Tabar) "Les ONG Palestiniennes et la Palestine" in Outre-Terre- Revue Francaise de Geographie, Numero 13 (Revue trimestrielle), Paris: Universite de Marne-la-Vallee.
2005	"Civil Society in North-South Relations. The Case of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership". ORIENT, (Vol.46, No.3), Germany. 414-428.
2005	(avec Linda Tabar) "Le role des ONG pendant le deuxieme intifada" in Confluences Mediterranee. Paris: l'Harmattan. pp. 41-54.
2005	"Being in Camp, Being Outside. Palestinian Refugees in Egypt and Palestinian Territories". pp. 83-96. Kolor. Journal on Moving Communities. Vol. 5:1. May. Brussels: Foyer and IMMRC.
2004	" Spatio-cide, refugies, crise de l'Etat-Nation. Vers un Etat palestinien Extraterritorialise ", in Multitudes. No 18, Fall. Paris.
2004	"The Role of the NGOs: Scream if You Want to be Heard" in Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics and Culture, vol. 11, no 2. pp. 25-31.
2003	"Rethinking the Palestinians Abroad as a Diaspora: The Relationships Between the Diaspora and the Palestinian Territories". International Social Science Review (HAGAR), Volume 4 :1-2.
2003	"L'impact du Capital Social sur le Processus de Rapatriement des Refugies.Une etude preliminaire des reseaux economiques et sociaux de parente en Palestine et en Israel", in Revue Europeenne des Migrations Internationales. Poitiers (France): CNRS. Vol. 19: 3. (full text: http://remi.revues.org/document468.html)
2003	(with Linda Taber) 'The Intifada and the Aid Industry. The Impact of the New Liberal Agenda on the Palestinian NGOs' in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Chicago University Press.
2003	(with Linda Tabar) "Palestinian Human Rights Organizations and the Global Human Rights Agenda", Palestine Israel Journal. Jerusalem
2001	"La Diaspora palestinienne et la conversion des capitaux issus de la rente petroliere" Tiers Monde, Paris, 2001, no 163, p. 623-643.
2000	"The Education of Engineers in Syria", in International Higher Education, The Boston College Center for International Higher Education, no 18, winter.
1999	"'Mosahamat al-shatat al-falastini di al-istithmarat wa al-musa'adat al'insaniyya fi falastin (Palestinian Diaspora Contribution to Investment and Philanthropy in Palestine", Majalet al Dirassat Al Falastiniyya, no 40, December. (In Arabic)
1999	"Insertion economique et marginalite sociale des Palestiniens aux Emirats arabes", Les cahiers de l'Orient, Paris: CERPO, n 55, 3eme trimestre, p.133-145.
1998	"Contribution de la diaspora palestinienne a l'aconomie des Territoires : investissement et philanthropie", in Maghreb-Machrek, no 161 novembre. (In English: http://www.passia.org/conferences/main_conferences.htm).
1997	"The Ideological Positions of Engineers in Syria" in International Sociology, London, Sage December 1997, Vol 12(4) p.457-473.
1997	'La mise en cause conjoncturelle de l'Occident dans les discours des ingenieurs syriens et egyptiens', in Egypte- Monde arabe, Cairo: CEDEJ, no 30-31 2e & 3e trim.
1996	"'Al falastiniyyen fi soria wa 'amaliyyet al-salam" (The Palestinian refugees in Syria and the peace process)" in Al Dirassat al Falastiniyya, Beyrouth: Institute for Palestine Studies, n° 28, Autumn, pp. 85-103.. (In Arabic)
1996	(with Olivier Sanmartin) "Histoires de Frontieres : les Palestiniens du Nord-Sinai" in Maghreb-Machrek, Paris, La Documentation francaise, n° 151 janvier-mars.
1995	"Ingenieurs et ouverture economique en Syrie et en Egypte. Un groupe professionnel en quete d'identite", in Tiers-Monde, Paris, n° 143, July- September.
1994	"Le secteur prive industriel en Syrie" in Cahiers de l'IRMAC, Lyon, Institut de Recherches sur le Monde Arabe Contemporain, n° 3.

2008	"Palestinian return migration Lessons from the International Refugee Regime". Sedek: A Journal on the Ongoing Nakba. Issue number 3 edited by T. Gardi. Tel-Aviv: Zochrot, Parrhesia, Pardes, pp. 22-31. (in Hebrew)
2006	"Spacio-cide and bio-politics: Israeli colonial project. From 1947 to the Wall" Al Adab. No. 54 #10-11-12/2006. Beirut: Dar Al Adab. pp. 53-61. (In Arabic)
2006	(with Hossein Shahidi) "In Defense of Enlightenment". Cornerstone. Bethlehem: Sabeel.
2005	"Palestina. Fara dreptul de intoarcere nu exista solutie" lumeam. Romania.
2002	(with Linda Tabar) "NGOs, Elite Formation and the Second Intifada", Between the Line, Jerusalem, October 2002, Vol. II #18.
2002	'Opening the Debate on the Right of Return', Washington: Middle East Report, no 222, Spring.
2002	"Riconsiderare i Palestinesi all'estero come oggetto di diaspora", Nuove Effemeridi. Rassegna trimestrale di cultura, Palermo (Italy), no 53, XIV, 2001/I.
2001	"A Moral Victory in Durban", Palestine Report, Jerusalem: JMCC, 10 September, Vol. 8:14
2001	"Return: a sacred cow or dialogue", Palestine Report, Jerusalem: JMCC, 21 November 2001.
1998	"The Palestinian community in the United Arab Emirates. Economic Integration and Social Segregation" in Shaml Newlettre, Ramallah, No 12, July.
1996	"Palestinian Businessmen in the Diaspora: Economic activities & investments in Palestinian territories" in Forum (Newsletter of the Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran & Turkey), Cairo, Vol. III, n° 2, June. (In English et in Arabic)
1993	"L'image de l'Autre: colloque de l'Association arabe de Sociologie", in Maghreb-Machrek, Paris, La Documentation francaise, n° 140, April-June. (With E. Longuenesse)

2008	Review of Joel Beinin and Rebecca L. Stein (ed.) The Struggle For Sovereignty Palestine and Israel. 1993-2005. Stanford University Press, 2006, 416 p. Arab Affaire Journal. London: Center of Study of the Arab Unity (English). Adafat: Arab Journal of Sociology. Beirut: Arab Association of Sociology. (Arabic)
2008	Review of Salim Tamari: Al-jabal did al-baher; dirasat fi ishkaliyyat al-datha al-filistiniyya (The mountain against the sea: studies in the varieties of Palestinian Modernity), by, Ramallah, Muwatin - The Palestinian Foundation for the Study of Democracy, 2005, 252 p. Adafat: Arab Journal of Sociology. Beirut: Arab Association of Sociology. (Arabic) 2008: Arab Affaire Journal. London: Center of Study of the Arab Unity.
2007	Review of Mohamed Kamel DORAI : Les refugies palestiniens du Liban. Une geographie de l'exil, 2006, CNRS editions, 256 p. for Revue Europeenne des Migrations Internationales. Poitiers (France): CNRS. Volume 23 n° 2, pp 218-219.

2007	"The Nahr al-Bared camp as a space of exception". Dailystar. December 06. In Arabic: Alnahar Beirut, December 09.
2007	"Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon: Laboratory of Islamic Radicalism" al-Akhbar. Beirut, August, 18. (in Arabic)
2007	"Lebanese refugee camps as space of exception" Dailystar. Beirut, July 18. In Italian: Liberatione. August, 25. In Arabic: al-hayat. London, August, 12.
2007	"Academia, Aid and Politics". Outlook. Beirut: AUB, March 22, p.3.
2007	"The politics of funding". Al Ahram Weekly, 18 - 24 January, Issue No. 828.
2007	"Why did the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation Withdraw Refugee Conference Funding at the Last Minute?" The Electronic Intifada, 31 January, in http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6475.shtml.
2006	"It Is a War Seeking the Abolition of Territory". Outlook. Beirut: AUB, issue 4 volume XXXVI, October 31, p.3.
2004	'Why a 'right of return' is necessary', Daily Star. Beirut. Thursday, October 07
2002	'Le mouvement associative in Territoires palestiniens', Ici et Maintenant, Jerusalem : Consulat de France, novembre.
2001	"A Moral Victory in Durban", London: Al Quds Al Arabi 11 September and Ramallah: Al Ayyam in 15 September.
2001	"Right of Return? What about the Right of Opening the subject for Discussion?" London: Al Quds Al Arabi 11 November and Ramallah: Al Ayyam in 9 November. (In Arabic)
2001	'Ici et la-bas. Vers une analyse de la relation entre la diaspora palestinienne et le centre', in Ici et Maintenant, Jerusalem : Consulat de France, Septembre 2001.
2000	"The Palestinian refugees between the truth and five illusions", Al Hayat, London, 17 February. (in Arabic)
1999	"The Economy of the Palestinians in Israel: a Palestinian economy or an Israeli one?", Nazareth: Fasl Al Maqal, 23 Mars. (in Arabic)
1995	"Palestiniens de l'exil, refugies et hommes d'affaires", Liberation, Paris, 25 March.

2007	De Soto. Published in Journal of Palestine Studies (in Arabic)

2007	Country report of Syria and Gulf countries for the "Study on National Research Systems. A Meta-Review." UNESCO.
2002	Report on the 'Destruction to Palestinian Institutions in Nablus and Other Cities (Except Ramallah), Caused by IDF Forces Between March 29 and April 21.
2002	(With Rema Hammami and Elizabeth Taylor) Destruction of Palestinian Institutions. Preliminary Report. April 13.
2000	"Les modes d'action des ONG palestiniennes. La problematique d'un mouvement social emergent ?", Working Paper, CEDEJ, Cairo.
1999	"Profile of Donors Assistance to Palestinian NGOs: Survey and Database", Welfare Association, Jerusalem.
1998	"Social Impact Assessment of Commercial Development of Historic Beit Sahour", PGF Consultants- Canada.
1998	"Report on the survey and database of research on population issues in Palestine", Population council, Cairo.

April 7-8, 2008	"Human Rights Watch and Addressing the Responsibility of Victims The Risk of Postmodern Non-politics". International Workshop "Development, Cooperation and Migration". University of Ravenna- Italy.
March 28-30, 2008	"Camps in Lebanon as Space of Exception" paper presented at International Workshop "L'Urbanite des marges Refugies, migrants et relegues dans les villes du Proche-Orient" Organized by l'Institut Francais du Proche-Orient (IFPO- Damascus), Migrinter (CNRS) and L'Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement. IFPO - Damas
January 7-10, 2008	"Human Rights Watch and Addressing the Responsibility of Victims The Risk of Postmodern Non-politics". International Conference "Liberty and Justice: America and the Middle East", Center for American Studies & Research (CASAR)-AUB.
December 14-15,2007	"Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon. Laboratory of Indocile Identity Formation". Institute for Palestine Studies and Institut Francais du Proche-Orient With Support from the French Foreign Ministry (CORUS Project) and the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences (AUB).
December 7-10,2007	"Spacio-cide and Israeli Bio-politics". DI/VISIONS: Culture and Politics of the Middle East. HKW, Berlin.
November 10-21,2007	"Arab National Research Systems". Symposium on the on Comparative Analysis on National Research Systems. UNESCO. Paris.
September 12-14,2007	"Palestinian refugees, citizenship and the nation-state". International Conference Beyond The Nation? Critical Reflections on Nations and Nationalism in Uncertain Times. Queen's University, School of Politics, International Studies & Philosophy, Belfast.
September 7-9, 2007	Keynote lecture: "Refugee camps in Lebanon: Laboratories of state-in-the-making, discipline, and Islamist radicalism". International workshop: "From Exodus to Exile: Palestinian Lives in the Levant". CMI and Muwatin. Bergen.
May 26-27, 2007	"Remittance Flows to the Palestinian Territory", International Workshop organized by The Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) at Georgetown University.
April 29, 2007	"The Emergence of the Globalized Elite", lecture and signature of my book with L. Tabar The Emergence of the Palestinian Globalized Elite. Donors, International Organizations and Local NGOs. Book Faire, Tripoli.
April 28, 2007	"Civil Society between Euro-Mediterranean Partnership and Neighborhood Policies: A View from the South". First Euro-Mediterranean Youth Meeting. Organized by Euro-Med Non-Governmental Platform. Antilias, Beirut.
April 1-3, 2007	"Palestinian Refugees camps" in regional workshop on Palestinian Refugees in Arab Region. Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs). Cyprus.
March 20, 2007	"Palestinian Refugee Camps: Territory of Exception and Disciplinary Space". Organized by Center for Research on Population and Health - Faculty of Health Sciences. Room 309 - Van Dyck hall.
March 9, 2007	"Spacio-cide and State of Exception in the Israeli Colonial practices". Brown Bag presentation to Center of Behavioural Research, AUB.
March 2, 2007	"Palestinian Professional employability in Lebanon". International Meeting: Mapping Palestinian Refugee Employment. The Secretariat of the Follow-up Committee for Employability of Palestine Refugees in Lebanon (FCEP) and UNRWA, from 9:00, at the Crown Plaza, Hamra-Beirut.
February 22-23, 2007	"Spacio-cide and bio-politics: The case of Palestinian-Israeli Conflict". An international conference Law and Economic Development: Towards Constructive Engagement in the Middle East. Organised by the Faculty of Law and Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel.
February 3, 2007	" Palestine ? l'heure du gouvernement de Hamas ". Plumes Rebelles, Salon du livre d'Amnesty International France 7e edition, Rennes
January 28-29,2007	"The NGOization, neoliberalism and the construction of a globalized elite in Palestine". International Conference: The Economy and Economics of Palestine: Past, Present and Future.
January 26-27,2007	" Palestinian Refugee Camps. Disciplinary space, Territory of exception, and Locus of Resistance ". International workshop Nationalisme en Mutation et Espaces en Devenir. Le Cas Palestinien.
January 22-24,2007	"Remittance Flows to the Palestinian Territory. Figures and Forms". International Seminar organized by the Euro-Mediterranean Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM) on remittances and investments in origin countries of migrants. European University, Florence.
December 7-9, 2007	"Donors Funding to the Research Agenda in the Arab East". International Workshop: Research Dynamic in the Arab Region. Organized by French Institute of Research on Development (IRD) in the framework of the ESTIME Program (Evaluation of Scientific and Technological capabilities in Mediterranean countries). Lebanese University.
November 29-December 1, 2006	UNESCO Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge "The Social Sciences Research in Palestinian Territories. The Dilemmas of the Production of the Research Outside of the Universities". Colloquium on Research and Higher Education Policy "Universities as Centers of Research and Knowledge Creation: An Endangered Species?". Paris: UNESCO.
November 25-26,2007	"Palestinian Refugee Camps: Place out of the Place". The International Conference on the Palestinian Refugees: Conditions and Recent Developments. Al-Quds University. Jerusalem.
November 15, 2006	"Crisis of Development in Palestinian territory and the International Aid System". International Conference "Development in the Post conflict Areas", organized Consultative Center for Documentation and Studies, Beirut.
September 13-15,2006	"Reshaping Geography: Palestinian Community Networks in Europe and the New Media". International Conference: Connecting Europe and the Middle East: On Migrants and Simultaneity. Copenhagen, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen and Department of Cultural Encounters, Roskilde University in cooperation with Images of the Middle East
August 27-30,2006	"Danish Cartoon Controversy and Freedom of Expression? Cultural Difference or Cultural Hegemony" in German-Arabic Media Dialogue: The political instrumentalisation of cultural values -The media as victim and perpetrator. Organized by Institut f?r Auslandsbeziehungen, Neuhardenberg
July, 23-30, 2006	"Spacio-cide and bio-politics: The case of Palestinian-Israeli Conflict", XVI ISA World Conference of Sociology, in Research Committee on Sociology of Migration RC31, Durban, South Africa. (Impossible to attend because of the war. Paper presented by the head of the panel)
July 23-30, 2006	"Palestinian Refugees, Citizenship and the Nation-State", XVI ISA World Conference of Sociology, in Research Committee on Sociology of Migration RC31, Durban, South Africa. (Impossible to attend because of the war. Paper presented by the head of the panel)
July 7-9, 2006	Discussant of a Panel on Migrations forcees et asile. Colloque international 1985 - 2005 : 20 ans de recherche sur les migrations internationales. Poitiers.
June 8-10, 2006	"Palestinian Refugees, Citizenship and State. Towards the New Model of Nation-State" in Asylum in the South: Africa and Mediterranean Area. Organized by Institut de recherche pour le developpement IRD (France). Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
May 12-15, 2006	Consultation with the international community representatives in charge of the Arab-Israeli Peace Process. In "Prospects for a Two-State Solution: Implications for the Refugee Issue. Scenario-Building Exercise". Organized by Chatham House. Minster Lovell, UK
May 4, 2006	"Aid, NGOs and Professionalization. (Palestine & Egypt) in URPL660 - Development Aid in the MENA: Impacts on Cities & Spatial Planning.
March 10, 2006	"The Emergence of a Palestinian globalized Elite. Donors, International Organizations and Local NGOs" in The Brown Bag Series of The CAMES Department, AUB.
October 8, 2005	"Why the human rights International organizations do neglect the right of return?" in the conference The Palestinian Refugees: International Law, Human Rights Conventions, UN resolutions. Past - Present and Future Perspectives. Copenhagen, Denmark.
September 23, 2005	"The Palestinians Refugees, Citizenship and Nation-states in the Middle-East" in the workshop Mouvements de refugies et migrations irregulieres au Moyen-Orient, Centre d'Etudes de Relations Internationales (CERI), Paris.
September 16-18,2005	"Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon" in consultation workshop on Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon. Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs). Cyprus.
May 25-26, 2005	"Palestinian economic and social transnational ties: some notes about gender and class stratification" in the international workshop Stratification Within Transnational Migrant Communities. Migrinter, University of Poitiers - France
March 16-20, 2005	"The impact of Social Capital on the Eventual Repatriation Process of Refugees. Study of Economic and Social Transnational Kinship Networks in Palestine/Israel" in the Panel "New Migrations and Transnational Practices in the Middle East" in Sixth Mediterranean Social and Political Research (MSPR) Meeting. The Mediterranean Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, Florence (Italy).
February 3, 2005	"Specio-cide, Bio-politics and resistance in Palestine/Israel", in Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths College, London.
January 31, 2005	'Refugies, diaspora et crise de l'Etat-nation' in Seminaire 'Palestine - Identites, citoyennetes, territoires', Institut d'Etudes sur les Societes du Monde Musulman, Paris.
January 28, 2005	'Les refugies palestiniens dans les camps : un statut suspendu dans un espace d'exception', in Atelier de reflexion 'Territoires d'exil, les camps de refugies', organise par l'Association de Geographes Francais et Migrinter, Universite de Poitiers.
December 3, 2004	'Le Spatio-cide et l'Etat-Nation : le cas de la Palestine' in seminaire "Frontieres" de l'UMR LOUEST. Ecole Architecture Paris Val Seine.
November 19-25,2005	'The impact of Social Capital on the Eventual Repatriation Process of Refugees. Some Gender insights from a Study of Economic and Social Transnational Kinship Networks in Palestine/Israel' in Association of Middle East Studies (MESA) Annual Meeting, San Francisco.
October 11, 2004	"Sociology of the Palestinian return migration: some methodological notes," in bi-weekly 'Brown Bag' Sessions of the Center for Behavioral Research in American University of Beirut.
July 3-5, 2004	"Space-cide and bio-politics in the Israeli colonial practices", in the 3d International Conference on "An End to Occupation. A just Peace in Israel-Palestine", Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
June 9-12, 2004	"Palestinian return migration. Lessons from the International Refugee Regime", paper presented in International Conference: "Transferring Best Practice: An international workshop on the comparative study of refugee return programmes with reference to the Palestinian context", University of Exeter, UK.
12 May, 2004	"The Extra-Territorial Nation-State and the Question of Refugees" PASSIA Roundtable, Ramallah
April 24, 2004	"Territories in Camps and Towns: the Palestinian Diaspora" in workshop Diasporas in Cairo: Transit Territory and the Transient Condition, organized by CEDEJ- FMRS/AUC.
March 6-8, 2004	"Space-cide and Refugees: Coupling land issues with Refugee issues", International Conference: "Refugee Repatriation Process, Patterns and Mode of Transnationality a Comparative Perspective", organized by Shaml center and International Migration, Spaces and Societies (Migrinter) (Poitiers - France).
November 21-22,2003	(With Lena Jayyusi) "Oral History and Land Use" in Abu Lughod Institute Conference "Between the Archival Forest and the Anecdotal Trees: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Palestinian Social History", Birzeit University.
October 6-8, 2003	Participation on a Workshop, 'The Palestinian Refugee Issues', organized by the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the Centre for Lebanese Studies. Limassol (Cyprus).
August 29-31,2003	"The Cultural Logic of Globalization", in International Confererence "International Seminar on the Palestinian Struggle and Globalization", organized by Alternative information Center, Bethlehem.
July 11-13, 2003	"Sociology and Right of Return", in international conference "Right of return and resolving Palestinian refugees issue", organized by Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany.
June 5-8, 2003	"Sociology of Palestinian Return Migration", in "The Predicaments of Palestinians and Jews: the Meaning of Catastrophe, Historical Knowledge, and the Return of Exiles", Conference organized by Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethno-political Conflict.
May 26-27, 2003	"Using network analysis in Transnational kinship ties in Palestinian Territories and Israel" in International Seminar "Conceptualisation of Social Network in Migration: empirical production and Theoretical challenge", MIGRINTER, CNRS/MSHS, Poitiers.
January 20, 2003	(with Salim Tamari) "Future of the Palestinian refugees: an open or closed file?", lecture, organized jointly by Shaml and Muwatin centers (Ramallah).
January 8, 2003	"Humanitarian and Political Aspects of the Palestinian Condition", in Panel discussion on "Catastrophes and human disasters in Palestinian Territories", Shaml and the Alternative Information Center, at the Ambassador Hotel, East Jerusalem.
December 21, 2002	"The relationship between the Palestinian in Israel and the Palestinian abroad", Second Conference of the Association of Palestinian Researchers in Israel.
March 20-24, 2002	'Flexible Transnational Survival Practices of Palestinian. Transmigrants/Returnees, and Inflexible State Policies: Crafting the Palestinian Extra-territorialized Nation-State', in Workshop II 'Transnationalism, Gender and Generation: Views from the Middle East and North Africa', at the Third Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting, Florence.
January 18-19,2002	"New Frontiers-New Horizons", Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Migration, Refugees, Human Rights, Trieste (Italy).
February 14-16,2002	'Diaspora with fragile center of gravity. The virtual return of the Palestinian communities', International Conference: Diasporas, organized by Migrintern/CNRS, MSHS, Poitiers, France.
September 19-22,2001	'Human Rights Global Agenda and its Encounter with the Palestinian Organizations Agenda', in Regional Seminar "The Defense of Human Rights in the Euro-Mediterranean Region and the Issue of Funding Rights NGOs", Beirut.
July 3-4, 2001	'Globalization without Regionalization. The paradoxical Effects of the political economy of the United Arab Emirates', in Workshop on Globalization in the Gulf, University of Exeter.
June 13-14, 2001	'Deconstructing the Diaspora Relationship to the Center. The Quest of a Palestinian Rothschild', in Workshop: "Palestinian Return Migration: Socio-economic and Cultural Approaches", organized by the Population Council and Shaml: Ramallah.
April 27, 2001	'La construction sociale de l'identite palestinienne', conference at the margin of the Exposition "Palestine" at Maison Robert Doisneau, Paris.
March 21-25, 2001	'Reshaping the Geography: Palestinian Communities Networks in Europe and the New Media', in Workshop 'Muslim Networks and Transnational Communities in and Across Europe', Second Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting, European University Institute, Florence.
February 2-4, 2001	'Refugee Absorption Capacity in Palestinian Territories: The Misleading of an Economistic Approach', in the Second Conference of the Arab Human Rights organizations, organized by Cairo Center for the Study of Human Right, Rabat.
November 13, 2000	'La seconde Intifada : est-elle celle de l'independance', Lecture organized by Association Bien joue, Nantes, France.
November 10, 2000	'La vie associative en Palestine et les organisations internationales Europeennes: un partenariat manque ?', in workshop 'Les Enjeux des echanges et du Developpement de la vie Associative', Conseil Regional du Cote d'Azure, Marseille.
October 30, 2000	'The Second Intifada and the Palestinian Political Agenda', lecture in Cairo Center for the Study of Human Right, Cairo.
September 8-9, 2000	'The Social Sciences Research in Palestine. The dilemma of a Research field without researchers' in Workshop 'Middle East research Awards Program: Past Achievements and future prospects', Population Council, Cairo.
August 24, 2000	(with Linda Tabar) Session of sociological intervention and presentation of preliminary findings of the Research 'The relationship between donors, INGOs and Palestinian NGOs (the constitution of agendas and the establishment of networks)', Muwatin Center (Ramallah).
August 5-9, 2000	'Dancing tango during the Peace process. The Palestinian- Israeli People-to-People program as a Mechanism of Conflict Resolution', 18th General International Peace Research Association (IPRA) Conference, Tampere, Finland.
May 5-6, 2000	"Physical return, Virtual Return. Palestinian Communities in Europe and the Homland', lecture organized by Shaml (Ramallah) and Refugee Studies Center (Oxford), St. Antoine, Oxford.
March 22-26,2000	"Modes of entrepreneurship of the Palestinian Communities in Europe", in Workshop 'The Palestinian refugees in Europe", in Workshop VII "Migration in the South and East Mediterranean" to participate at the First Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting, organized by the Mediterranean Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.
February 26-27,2000	'Capitaux et entrepreneurs palestiniens de retour. Une approche a partir des modes d'entreprenariat', in Workshop 'Le role des emigres a l'etranger : Nouveaux entrepreneurs et nouveaux acteurs des villes du monde arabe', Tours (France): URBAMA.
October 4, 1999	"Les modes d'action des ONG palestiniennes. La problematique d'un mouvement social emergent ?", in Workshop "La structuration des espaces d'action : saisir les protagonistes et les processus engages dans la diffusion des normes et l'allocation des ressources", Cairo : CEDEJ.
June 3, 1999	"Profile of Donor Assistance to Palestinian NGOs: Survey and Database", in Workshop "Palestinian NGOs and International Organizations: Development Priorities and Coordination", organized by the Welfare Association, YMCA, Jerusalem.
April 16, 1999	"Population in transit. The Weak Diasporatization in the Palestinian Case", in Conference "Euro-Mediterranean Partnership: The Human Rights in Mediterranean Area", organized by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the Reseau Euro-Mediterraneen des Droits de l'Homme and the Forum des Citoyens de la Mediterranee, Stuttgart, Germany.
March 15, 1999	"Research and Society: some remarks from the findings of the survey on the population issues in Palestine", in seminar "Research and policy making in Palestine", organized by Association of Palestinian Policy Research Institutions (APPRI), Ramallah.
February 24/25,1999	"ONG palestiniennes et Nouvel Etat : equilibrage des faiblesses", in the Workshop "La structuration des espaces d'action : saisir les protagonistes et les processus engages dans la diffusion des normes et l'allocation des ressources", Cairo : CEDEJ.
December 15, 1998	"Research Profile on population issues in Palestine", in Workshop "International Population Agendas and Regional Responses", organized by MEAwards program, the Population Council, Cairo.
June 10, 1998	"Palestinian Diaspora Contribution to Investment and Philanthropy in Palestine " Roundtable meeting organized by PASSIA, Jerusalem.
March 23-24, 1998	'Classifying the Palestinians Abroad. Towards a Critique of the Supremacy of the Economic Factor', in Warwick Refugee Conference, Organized by Warwick University, UK.
February 6, 1998	"The Palestinian Abroad: Refugees, Diasporized, Economic Migrants", in Workshop 'Forced Migrations in the 20th Century: Context and Consequences' organized by European Institute University, Florence.
July 21-23, 1997	"The Economy in the Middle-East: Very High Political Economy", in Expatriate Palestinian Businessmen Conference, organized by Department of Expatriate Affairs in the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, Gaza.
June 23-25, 1997	"Industrial Investments of Palestinian businessmen in the Diaspora in Palestinian Territories", in Expert Group Meeting on "Impact of the Peace Process on Selected Sectors" organized by USCWA.
March 20-23, 1997	"Self and Others within the Palestinian Diaspora: Capital and Capitals", in Conference "Globalization, Cities and Youth", organized by Population Council, Cairo.
January 15, 1997	"Between Two Worlds: Palestinian Businessmen in the Diaspora and the Construction of a Palestinian Entity", lecture in Muwatin Center (Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy), Ramallah. (In Arabic)
January 8, 1997	"Internationalization of the Palestinian Economy in the Diaspora", Lecture in Abdel Hamid Shouman Institute, Amman. (in Arabic)
January 7, 1997	"Les entrepreneurs palestiniens de la diaspora et la construction de l'entite palestinienne", Lecture in French Research Center (CERMOC), Amman.
November 16, 1996	"Frontieres imagees et image des frontieres chez la diaspora palestinienne", in the Conference "L'image de l'Autre dans le monde arabe". Arab Association of Sociology, Hamamet, Tunisia.
October 23, 1996	"L'economie palestinienne de la diaspora", seminar of the CEDEJ.
October 7, 1996	"La mise en cause de la conjoncture politique. L'image de l'Occident chez les ingenieurs syriens et egyptiens", in the Conference La vision de l'Occident dans le monde arabe, Agnelli Foundation, Turin- Italy.
July 4, 1996	"Entre deux mondes. Les hommes d'affaires palestiniens de la diaspora et l'Autorite palestinienne", in the Panel "Le capital obeissant ? entrepreneurs et Etats au Proche-Orient", AFEMAM Annuel meeting, Aix-en-Provence- France.
July 3, 1996	'Les hommes d'affaires de la diaspora et les investissements en territoires palestiniens'. Panel "Territoires et espaces communautaires" (CERMOC/CEDEJ), AFEMAM Annuel meeting, Aix-en-Provence, France.
February 15, 1996	"Palestinian businessmen in Egypt". Lecture. General Union of Palestinian Women in Egypt, Cairo. (In Arabic)
February 2-3, 1996	"Disobedient Capital. Palestinian Business People in the Diaspora and the Palestinian National Authority", in Conference of the CERMOC "State of Research on Palestine", Amman- Jordan.
March 5, 1996	"Palestinian Refugees: Which Future?", lecture in MERC (Middle East Research Competition), Cairo. (In Arabic)