* Visiting American violist, Peter Sulski, gave a concert with Palestinian pianist Lara Harb, with a program of Bach and Brahms. In addition, he participated in a recital with professors of the National Conservatory of Music (Suheil Khoury, Nadia Abboushi, Khaled Jubran, etc..) & some of its best students (Harb, Ramzi Hussein, etc..) in a mixed concert of Western (Grieg, Bach, etc..) & Arabic classical music.

* As part of the Centre’s activities marking the 50th anniversary of the Nakba, two lectures/debates were held at the Centre, with writer/journalist/translator Hassan Khader, and sociologist, Dr. Salim Tamari.

Khader is an expert on Israeli literature, and this year’s first Palestine Awards winner for journalism. He analyzed treatments of the 1947-49 events in the Palestinian & Israeli narratives (literature & historiography). Tamari is a writer & sociologist, he spoke about the "Electronic Return to Jaffa", analyzing Diaspora Palestinians relationship with the homeland, the Nakba, & with Palestinians who have remained in Palestine.

In this regard, the Centre also organized a lecture by Dr. Kamal Abd el Fattah, head of Birzeit University’s History Department on the Palestinian villages destroyed by Israel in 1947-49 & in 1967. The lecture was co-sponsored by Riwaq, the Centre for Architectural Conservation.

Finally, the Centre hosted a lecture /discussion about Rawan & Dima Damen’s oral history book " Migration in the Memory of Palestinian Children", published this year by the Palestinian UNESCO committee. The book is a series of interviews with survivors of the Nakba, regarding their experiences, & the impact it had on their lives.

* Two documentary films about dancers/choreographers Pina Bausch, Reinhilde Hoffman and Susanne Linke were screened at the Centre