Common Threads: First-hand experiences of being a prisoner in Palestine and in The North of Ireland.

Eyad Elyan is Palestinian and Professor of Machine Learning at Robert Gordon University. Tommy McKearney is Irish and a socialist republican, former Republican political prisoner, author and journalist.

They will discuss the background and circumstances leading to their detention within the context of military occupation, their treatment at the hands of the prison authorities and their response to that treatment, the factors surrounding their release and their lives following release.