Join us for the biggest Palestine event online
PalestineExpo Online
Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th July
What is Palestine Expo?
Palestine Expo is a unique experience, which proudly celebrates Palestinian art, history and culture whilst fostering discussion and activism in the UK. Palestine Expo combines the use of traditional forms of education with cutting edge technology to raise awareness about Palestine. Palestine Expo brings people together to celebrate Palestine like never before!
Meet Our Speakers & Contributors
Jeremy Corbyn
Former Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 2015 to 2020. Corbyn has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Islington North since 1983.
Jeremy will deliver a Major Speech on Palestine on Sunday at 2.05pm.
Diana Buttu
Diana Buttu is a Palestinian lawyer and analyst who served as a legal advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team from 2000 to 2005.
Wadah Khanfar
Wadah Khanfar is the co-founder of the Sharq Forum and the former director general of the Al Jazeera Network. He has been named as one of Foreign Policy's Top 100 global thinkers of 2011 as well as one of Fast Company's 'Most Creative People in Business' of the year.
Ismail Patel
Chair of Friends of Al Aqsa, Author and PHD in Islamophobia and the politicization of Muslim identity
Yousef Jabareen
Yousef Jabareen, has been a member of the Israeli Knesset for Hadash since 2015. Jabareen is a qualified attorney and has filed numerous motions in Israel’s High Court on issues regarding Arab equality.
Chief Zwelivelile Mandela
Chief Zwelivelile Mandela is the Chief of the Mvezo Traditional Council and is the grandson of former president Nelson Mandela. He is serving as an MP in the South African Parliament.
Nada Elia
A Diaspora Palestinian writer and political commentator, currently working on her second book, Who You Callin' "Demographic Threat?" Notes from the Global Intifada. She is a member of the Steering Collective of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI).
Ilan Pappé
Professor at the University of Exeter. He is the author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, The Modern Middle East, A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples, and Britain and the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
Karen Abu Zayd
Senior official of the United Nations. Karen has spent 19 years working with Palestinian refugees with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Sanyika Bryant
Sanyika Bryant was trained by the Labor/Community Strategy Center where he worked on the Bus Riders Union and Frontlines Press projects. Sanyika’s ideology is rooted in Pan-Africanism, anti-imperialism and internationalism.
Hatem Bazian
Hatem Bazian is a co-founder and Professor of Islamic Law and Theology at Zaytuna College. He is also a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley.
Gideon Levy
An Israeli journalist and author. Levy writes opinion pieces and a weekly column for the newspaper Haaretz that often focus on the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. Levy has won prizes for his articles on human rights in the Israeli-occupied territories.
Mustafa Abu Sway
Mustafa Abu Sway is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Islamic Studies and Director of the Islamic Research Center at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem.
Zamzam Ibrahim
Zamzam Ibrahim is the former President of the National Union of Students in the UK.
Awad Abd AlFattah
A political writer and the former general secretary of the Balad party. He is the coordinator of the Haifa-based One Democratic State Campaign.
Daniel Levy
Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations. From 1999-2001, Levy served as an adviser to the Israeli government led by Prime Minister Ehud Barakvy
Oroub El-Abed
A specialist on Palestinian refugees in Jordan. She has consulted for several UN agencies and international NGOs, and written about political economy of development and forced migration, particularly in relation to Palestinian refugees in the Middle East. She is the author of Unprotected: Palestinians in Egypt since 1948.
Ibrahim Khatib
Lecturer at Harvard University and his current research is focusing on the conflict in the Middle East (Arab-Israeli) and the role of religious beliefs and political aspirations.
Kamel Hawwash
Chair of Palestine Solidarity campaign. He is a British Palestinian engineering professor based at the University of Birmingham
Dudu Masango-Mahlangu
Board Member of Africa4Palestine and member of the SA Council of Churches
Maha Salah
Middle East Monitor’s resident chef Maha Salah who is also a translator and food blogger.
Baha Hilo
Baha is a graduate of Bier Zeit University in Ramallah, where he earned his BA in Sociology. Baha is the co-founder of To Be There, which provides educational tourism programs, information, and services that seek to bring about justice, equality, and freedom for all Palestinians.
Hamde Abu Rahma
An award winning Palestinian photojournalist, activist and author of Roots Run Deep - Life in Occupied Palestine. His work as a photojournalist focuses on the life of Palestinians living in Israeli occupied territories of the West Bank.
Chef Muayad Ali
Palestinian born Chef Muayad Ali has worked alongside several top Michelin Chefs including Gordon Ramsey. He has lead successful restaurants in London and is currently the owner of La Maison, a rooftop garden restaurant in Tulkarm in the West Bank.
Osama Abu Irshaid
Osama Abuirshaid is the National Policy Director and a board member of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP). He is a board member of the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), an umbrella organization of eight major national American Muslim organizations.
Salman Abu Sitta
A Palestinian researcher most known for his ground-breaking project mapping historic Palestine and developing a practical plan for implementing the right of return of Palestinian refugees.
Sami Abu Shehadeh
Member of the Joint List representing the Arab nationalist Balad party. Previously Director of the Yaffa Youth Movement.
Leanne Mohamad
President of KCL Palestine Society. She is a well known British Palestinian Public Speaker.
Farah Koutteineh
Founder of KEY48 . A student created and led movement calling for the Palestinian right of return for all Palestinian refugees.
Robert Andrews
Public Relations officer for Europal Forum.
Yahya Abu Seido
Founder of Association of Student Activism for Palestine. He is a well know British Palestinian Activist.
Abdurrahman Sultan
Student Activist
