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Sarah Helm, former Middle East correspondent for The Independent, asks how far the roots of today’s tragedy in Palestine and Israel lie in the arrogance and racism of British imperialism.

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Andrew Whitley is founder and executive director of Geo-Political Advisory Services (GPAS), a UK-based consultancy that works on the alleviation of armed conflict in the Middle East and Asia. He was previously Policy Director and interim Chief Executive of The Elders, the organisation of global figures founded by Nelson Mandela. Before joining The Elders in London, in January 2011, Andrew worked for four decades around the world, first as a journalist with the BBC and Financial Times and later, from 1995 to 2010, with the United Nations. From 1990 to 1994 he was the founding director of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa division, then known as Middle East Watch. At the UN, Andrew successively held senior posts at UNCTAD (the UN Conference on Trade and Development), the Department of Peace-Keeping Operations – in UN-administered East Timor and Kosovo – and at UNRWA, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. A specialist in the Middle East, he has lived twice in Iran and twice in Israel and Palestine. The current work of GPAS is focused on Yemen as well as relations between Iran and its western neighbours. Andrew holds Bachelors’ and Masters’ degrees in History from St Catharine’s College, Cambridge.

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John McHugo is a trustee of the Balfour Project and a board member of CAABU, the Council for Arab British Understanding. He has an academic background in both International Law and Islamic studies. He is the author of three books on the history of the Middle East. In reverse order of publication, these are A Concise History of Sunnis and Shi’is, Syria: A Recent History, and A Concise History of the Arabs. His talk today is an expansion of what he says about the Palestine Mandate in A Concise History of the Arabs.

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The Balfour Project hosted an online screening of their Britain in Palestine film, followed by a Q&A with two esteemed historians, Dr Mary Embleton and Dr Peter Shambrook.

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And this is the audio recording from the Zoom Q&A session.

Welcome to the Balfour Project podcast.  Today we are very glad to have Vincent Fean, who is the chair of the Balfour Project. He will be speaking on the topics of the illegal settlements and UNRWA.

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Welcome to the new Balfour Project podcast. Today we are very glad to have Vincent Fean, who is the chair of the Balfour Project. We are going to be answering questions on annexation, recognition, we're going to touch on the topic of lobbying and peace, how to help the region of Palestine during the coronavirus, and several other issues.

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A talk by Sir Vincent Fean - Chair of the Balfour Project & former British-Consul General, Jerusalem, followed by Q&A.

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