Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
On 30 October 2025, The Forge hosted a talk titled “Ceasefire in Gaza: What Does It Mean and What Comes Next?”
Speaker → Dr. Ramzy Baroud is a US-Palestinian journalist, media consultant, author, and internationally syndicated columnist. He is the Editor of Palestine Chronicle, former Managing Editor of the London-based Middle East Eye, former Editor-in-Chief of The Brunei Times, and former Deputy Managing Editor of Al Jazeera Online. Dr. Baroud holds a PhD from the University of Exeter and is a Senior Research Fellow at Centre for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA).
Speaker → Dr. Nadia Naser-Najjab is Senior Lecturer in Palestine Studies and co-director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter. Prior to this, she was an Assistant Professor, Birzeit University, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies and the MA program in Arab Contemporary Studies. Nadia holds a PhD in Middle East Studies form the University of Exeter.
Speaker → Na'eem Jeenah is a Senior Researcher at the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA), and Executive Director of the Afro-Middle East Centre
(AMEC). He is also Deputy Chair of the Denis Hurley Peace Institute. Na'eem has a Master's Degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, where he also lectured in Political Studies.
Chair Professor Erin McCandless serves as the Qatar-South Africa Centre for Peace and Intercultural Understanding and is a Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Johannesburg. With three decades of academic and practical experience across 25 countries, her research explores rising complexity in conflict and crisis contexts, emerging and non-Western actors in mediation and sustaining peace, principled movements for a just international order, and the humanitarian-development-peace (and climate) nexus.
On 30 October 2025, The Forge hosted a talk titled “Ceasefire in Gaza: What Does It Mean and What Comes Next?”
Speaker → Dr. Ramzy Baroud is a US-Palestinian journalist, media consultant, author, and internationally syndicated columnist. He is the Editor of Palestine Chronicle, former Managing Editor of the London-based Middle East Eye, former Editor-in-Chief of The Brunei Times, and former Deputy Managing Editor of Al Jazeera Online. Dr. Baroud holds a PhD from the University of Exeter and is a Senior Research Fellow at Centre for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA).
Speaker → Dr. Nadia Naser-Najjab is Senior Lecturer in Palestine Studies and co-director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter. Prior to this, she was an Assistant Professor, Birzeit University, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies and the MA program in Arab Contemporary Studies. Nadia holds a PhD in Middle East Studies form the University of Exeter.
Speaker → Na'eem Jeenah is a Senior Researcher at the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA), and Executive Director of the Afro-Middle East Centre
(AMEC). He is also Deputy Chair of the Denis Hurley Peace Institute. Na'eem has a Master's Degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, where he also lectured in Political Studies.
Chair Professor Erin McCandless serves as the Qatar-South Africa Centre for Peace and Intercultural Understanding and is a Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Johannesburg. With three decades of academic and practical experience across 25 countries, her research explores rising complexity in conflict and crisis contexts, emerging and non-Western actors in mediation and sustaining peace, principled movements for a just international order, and the humanitarian-development-peace (and climate) nexus.
