forward from Sara Mills: IGALA 4 conference Fes, Morocco

[Mills, Sara]

Dear all,
Just to clarify the issue of the connection between Palestine and the IGALA conference, the political situation in Morocco in
relation to the issue of Israeli actions in Palestine means that if international conferences are organised in Morocco, they need
to exclude Israeli academics, as a protest.  The Executive made the decision that because IGALA is an international organisation,
it could not be involved in such exclusions, and for this reason, the conference will regrettably take place elsewhere.
Sara Mills

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Subject: Re: forward from Sara Mills: IGALA 4 conference Fes, Morocco


I'm sure I'm not the only one who is curious about the connection between the war crimes committed by Israel in Palestine and a
gender and language conference in Morocco. Can anyone who is in the know elaborate on this?

Thanks,
Uri

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On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Mary Bucholtz wrote:

> IGALA 4 conference Fes, Morocco
>
> As many of you know, the IGALA4 conference was planned to be held in 
> Fes, Morocco in 2006, and the planning for this was at a fairly 
> advanced stage. However, unfortunately, we have run into some 
> institutional and political difficulties with holding the conference 
> in Fes, due to the continuing conflict over Palestine and political 
> sensibilities about this within Morocco.  It is for this reason that, 
> very regretfully,  we are having to change the venue for the 
> conference and we will send you more information about the new 
> location and date in due course.  On behalf of the IGALA executive I 
> would like to extend our thanks to Fatima Sadiqi the organiser of the 
> conference who has put so much into the planning and organisation of 
> this conference so far and we hope that at some stage in the future it 
> will be possible to hold the conference in Morocco.
>
>
>
> Prof. Sara Mills, English, Sheffield Hallam University, Collegiate 
> Crescent, S10 2BP; tel: 0114-225-2257; e.mail: s.l.mills at shu.ac.uk
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>
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