The symposium offered an extensive discussion of the issues addressed by the project, with emphasis on the erasure of official, public, cultural and private lives of the pre-1948 Palestinian city – and Jaffa in particular – by presenting and discussing a range of other projects that expose the urban history of the now hyphenated city.

• Greetings and opening statements: Debby Farber
   
• Prof. Tobi Fenster and Ronnie Schlesinger: The House as a Contact Zone in Jaffa: The -Conflicted Urban Spaces Project
   
• Architects Shamir Zalkin and Omer Bar-Oryan: Qutub House – Quasi-Modernism
   
• Keren Kinberg: Amin Nassif House on 36 Oley Zion St.
   
• Himat Zoabi: Town-less town dwellers – Haifans in post-Nakba Haifa
   
• Tamara Ben Halim, A third generation refugee from Yaffa, her family had fled in 1948 to Egypt, Skype conversation.

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