Thursday, August 23
Tunisia: political Islam, the left and the future of the democratic revolution
Presiding: Daniela Di Marco
• Ajmi Lourimi, member of the political leadership if the Islamic movement Enahda
The left in crisis over Libya: the NATO attack and the civil war
Presiding: Massimo De Santi
• Hamza Piccardo, former leading member of the Union of Islamic Communities in Italy (UCOII), former spokesperson of the European Muslim Network, Islam online
• Moreno Pasquinelli, speaker of the Anti-imperialist Camp
Syria: democratic transition or civil war?
Presiding: Wilhelm Langthaler
• Haitham Manna, speaker of the National Co-ordination Body for Democratic Change (NCB)
Friday, August 24
Greece: elections or revolution?
Presiding: Gernot Bodner
• Petros Al Achmar, leading activist of the Communist Organisation of Greece (KOE) which is member of Syriza
• Yiannis Rachiotis, candidate of Antarsya (Anti-capitalist Left Co-operation for the Overthrow) and leading member of the left lawyers association Alternative Intervention of Athens Lawyers (AIAL)
• Mikhalis Tiktopoulos, senior activist of the Greek antagonist opposition
Presiding: Thomas Zmrzly
• Zaher Birawi, leading Islamic Palestine activist, London
• Attia Rajab, Palestine Committee Stuttgart, Germany
• Yoav Bar, promoter of the Haifa conference for One Democratic State in Palestine
• Leo Gabriel, member of the int’l council of the World Social Forum (WSF)
Egypt between military, Islamists and Tahrir
Presiding: Mohamed Aburous
• Amal Ramsis, price-rewarded Egyptian film director, Tahrir activist and affiliated with the revolutionary left group “We are all Resistance”
• Angela Lano, InfoPal, Italy
Cinema: Forbidden by Amal Ramsis
Saturday, August 25
The threat of an attack on Iran, the Zionist design and the struggle for peace
Presiding: Massimo De Santi
• Prof. Mohammad Reza Dehshiri, university of Tehran
• Paul Larudee, member of the executive committee of the Global March to Jerusalem (GMJ)
• Aldo Bernardini, docent for international law
• Vanna Vannuccini, journalist of La Repubblica daily newspaper
Bahrain: the omitted struggle for democracy
Presiding: Mohamed Aburous
• Dr. Jasim Husain Ghuloom, Wifaq opposition party MP
• Prof. Intissar Masri, secretary of the Arab-Italian center Assadakah
The Arab springs, the Syrian conflict and the imperialist regional design
Presiding: Moreno Pasquinelli
• Ali Fayyad, Hezbollah MP and leading member
• Prof. Mohammad Reza Dehshiri, university of Tehran
• Dr. Vangelis Pissias, Professor in International Economic Affairs, leading organiser of the Gaza Freedom flotilla, Greece
Sunday, August 26
The Italian crisis within the European one – a popular front to emerge as an alternative?
Presiding: Nello De Bellis
• Alberto Bagnai, economist
• Marino Badiale, university of Turin
• Leonardo Mazzei, secretary of the People’s Liberation Movement (MPL)
• Alberto Perino, leader of the NO TAV movement
• Mariano Ferro, leader of the Sicilian popular protest movement Forconi (by audio link)
• Felice Flori, leader of the Sard shepherds