Our monthly seminar, titled 'My story with the Syrian revolution', was delivered on 29th January 2017 by Dr Yaser Aleiti. This seminar was via Skype from Istanbul, in which Dr Aleiti told his story with the Syrian regime and why he was politically motivated before the revolution and why he was detained by the Syrian regime in 2007.
Our monthly seminar, delivered on 27 November, was titled 'Towards a fair solution for the Syrian crisis'. This seminar was given by Dr. Yassin Al-Haj Saleh via Skype who outlined his vision for a democratic and pluralistic Syria, one which would be fair with all its people. His talk was followed by an interesting and active discussion.
Our monthly seminar was delivered on 23 October by Mr. Hamad Shihab Altalaa Aljabouri by the title of 'The Future Syria between Central Government and the Wrongly Understood Concept of Federalism'. Mr. Aljabouri talked about the different political systems of having a strong central government versus having a federal system of government.
We resumed our monthly movie nights on Sunday 16 October by showing 'Animal Farm'. Our well-attended movie was followed by a discussion on revolution, and how a revolution can be successful, and how to gauge the success of a revolution.
A very dynamic discussion at our Remembering Srebrenica film viewing of 'Women Who Refuse to Die', on 24th July, about how letting hate, such as Islamophobia, go unchecked can lead to genocide.
