Japanese translation of Boyarin's Powers of Diaspora has been published.

The lectures by Prof. Ilan Pappe whom UTCP invited from Haifa Univ. in Israel last year have been published as a book in Japanese language.

Ilan Pappe speaking about Palestine: From "Ethnic Cleansing" to "Bridging Narrative",
edited and translated by Midan group in Tokyo,
published by Tsuge-Shobo-Shinsha, 2008.

Kais Firro（以色列海法大学中东史学科）先生于1月28日在UTCP讲演了“双语城市海法的共生（不）可能性”之后，至31日，连续四天的研究会结束，于2月1日回国。虽说是连续四天的研究会，但每天从上午开始进行个人的研究指导，每天的讲演、答疑之后，在联谊会上又继续展开热烈的讨论，回到宾馆时已经是晚上11点以后了。其间Firro先生显示出来的博学、对任何提问都直接面对的态度以及对研究的热情，让我获得了超出知识层面的刺激。

Kais Firro (The Department of Middle Eastern History, Haifa University, Israel) pronounced a lecture on the 28th of January at UTCPunder the title “The (Im-)possibility of Coexistence in Bilingual Haifa”, had research seminars for four days until the 31st and left for Israel on the 1st of February.

Lectures by Prof. Kais Firro (Department of Middle Eastern History, University of Haifa, Israel)

Report by Koichiro Kokubun on Takanori Hayao’s talk　“The Current State of the Straying "Jewish Country"”
Koichiro Kokubun wrote his comments about Hayao’s talk under the title “The Hope-Principle”、focusing on the issues of the change in the demographic composition of Israel, the separation wall, the activities of Picture Balata and the support of the olive harvest by a leftist group.

There are several reasons to proclaim Haifa as a city of “coexistence”.

Haifa is a city in Northern Israel and partially due to its proximity to the Galilee district with a numerous Arab-Palestinian population it is known for the high percentage of citizens of Arab origin. The University of Haifa has the largest number of students with Arab background in Israel. The city is also called sometimes “a city of coexistence” or “a bilingual city” (the ideological aspect behind such notions remains to be discussed). Ilan Pappe, who was invited to UTCP last march, used to work at the University of Haifa. He is a historian, who thoroughly criticized the Israeli official history/national history from within Israel. This time we narrowly missed each other because Dr. Pappe has moved to England with his family and started work at the University of Exeter.