9:30 am - Onsite Registration Begins Meet and Greet - Coffee, Tea, Manaeesh and Cookies 10:00 am - Welcome 10:10 am - Plenary "The Continuing Struggle For The Return - Celebrating 10 Years of Al-Awda" by Dr. Jess Ghannam, Al-Awda National Coordinating Committee Chair, Board Member of the Gaza Community Mental Health Program, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Chief of Medical Psychology at the University of California San Francisco 10:45 am - Student Activism for the Return Panel: To include representatives from various campuses. This session brings students to discuss progress and to coordinate plans of action. The main topic at this conference will be Student Divestment campaigns. 12:30 pm - Lunch Break - Pizza 1:30 pm - Refugee Support - Palestinians from Iraq Activist Panel: Mazen Al Moukdad, Marwan Ahmad, and others Personal Experience: Palestinian Refugee Recently Arrived from Al-Waleed Camp Will Speak of Personal Experience Filmmaker Activist Adam Shapiro to discuss and present film from the desert camps 3:30 pm - Answering 'Tough' Questions Discussion led by Dr. Zahi Damuni, co-founder Al-Awda, National Treasurer and San Diego Represenative 4:15 pm - Eighth International Al-Awda Convention Discussion of Objectives, Current Plans, Proposals, and Input - Led by Amani Barakat and Ghattas Khoury. The Eighth International Al-Awda Convention will take place April 30 - May 2, 2010 in Anaheim California. 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm - Banquet - Celebrating Ten Years of Al-Awda Keynote: Dr. Jamal Nassar, Dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at California State University, San Bernardino Dabke Concluding Remarks