Priya Singh

As Fellow at the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata, Priya has also been the programme coordinator of the West Asia programme and has organized various international seminars in collaboration with and active participation from the University of Cairo, the American University of Cairo, the American University of Beirut, Haigazian University of Beirut, University of Jerusale. [...] In addition to being the principal coordinator of the West Asia programme at the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, she along with her colleagues has been part of the core coordination team for the annual conference of the Institute, The Asia Perspectives. [...] Phil students at the University of Burdwan, and on various issues in the Asian context at the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Calcutta, the Institute of Foreign Policy Studies (IFPS) at the University of Calcutta, the West Bengal State University, Barasat, the Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, and at the Hacetteppe University at Ankara, Turkey. [...] “Consigned to the Margins: The Bedouins of the Naqab/Negev,” in The Asia Annual 2013 International Conference on ‘Margins' and 'Marginal communities' in the Asian Perspective: Identity and Resistance, December17- 18, 2013 at the Maulana Abul kalam Azad Institute of Asia Studies, Kolkata. [...] These trips consisted of visits to the Tel Aviv University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Bar-Ilan University at Ramat Gan, the Ben Gurion University at Beersheba, the University of Haifa, the Central Zionist Archives and The Israel Democracy Institute at Jerusalem.