13:30-15:00 ET / 20:30-22:00 PALESTINE / 10:30-12:00 PT / 18:30-20:00 GMT

For eleven days in May 2021, the world watched in horror as Israel engaged once again in a relentless and inhumane military attack on Gaza. This outright military attack followed days of organized violence and threatened evictions in Jerusalem during Ramadan. Few international media outlets reported on a systematic series of violent attacks on Palestinian faculty and students in academic institutions across Israel. Peaceful Palestinian protesters were attacked by right-wing Jewish civilian militants while police stood by and watched; Palestinian students were assaulted or threatened by campus security; Others were arrested at random, some beaten and humiliated while in police custody; A great number of students fled their institutions mid-semester in fear of their lives and safety. Only a few academic institutions commented on these events, and none offered students any long term reassurance.

Please join us on Wednesday, June 23, from 1:30 to 3:00 pm ET, to hear directly from Palestinian scholars describing some of what they have been seeing, hearing, and experiencing on Israeli campuses over the last few weeks. We invite you to hear the testimonies, ask questions, and learn about how we might lend our support in a meaningful way.

Opening remarks:
Nadia Abu El-Haj (Anthropology Department, Society of Fellows & Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University)

Moderated by:
Areej Sabbagh-Khoury (Sociology and Anthropology Department, Hebrew University, Academia for Equality)

Speakers:
Rabea Eghbariah (Lawyer with Adalah Legal Center, and SJD student at Harvard Law School)

Arees Bishara (Sociology PhD student and researcher, Academic and social coordinator of Sawa Program, Tel Aviv University)

Eman Suliman & Khalid Ghnaem (Students, Ben-Gurion University)

Yara Shahine Gharablé (Social and political activist from Yaffa, studying history and gender studies in Tel Aviv University).

Rafat Abu Aish (Journalist and activist, law graduate, Lakiya village, Alnaqab)

Concluding remarks by Areej Sabbagh-Khoury.

The event is organized by Academia for Equality, and co-sponsored by The Center for Palestine Studies, The Middle East Institute at Columbia University, Association of Black Anthropologists, Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association, Scientists For Palestine, British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES), Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies, San Francisco State University, Department of Anthropology, University of the Western Cape (South Africa), and NYU Gallatin Human Rights Initiative.

A public talk by Abdel Razzaq Takriti and Karma Nabulsi

Wednesday, 23 June | 19:00–20:30
Place: ZOOM

About the speakers:

Professor Karma Nabulsi is Tutor and Fellow in Politics at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford. Her research is on 18th and 19th century political thought, the laws of war, and the contemporary history and politics of Palestinian refugees and representation. She is the author of Traditions of War: Occupation, Resistance, and the Law (Oxford University Press, 2005). Karma directed a civic needs assessment for Palestinian refugees, and was editor of its findings: Palestinians Register: Laying Foundations and Setting Directions (2006). She went on to design and direct the civic voter registration for Palestinian refugees to their national parliament, from 2011-2016. She initiated and directed the Palestinian Revolution digital humanities project learnpalestine.politics.ox.ac.uk (2016), co-curating and co-authoring the website with Abdel Razzaq Takriti. The project was developed with scholars, museums, research institutes, and universities across the global south, providing a bilingual open-access research and teaching resource. The online course and research materials cover the Palestinian liberation movement, during the anti-colonial era of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.

Professor Abdel Razzaq Takriti is the inaugural holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Arab History and the Founding Director of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Center for Arab Studies at the University of Houston. His research focuses on the history of revolutions, anticolonialism, global intellectual currents, and state-building in the modern Arab world. He is the author of Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman, 1965-1976 (Oxford University Press, 2013 and 2016) and co-author and co-curator, with Karma Nabulsi, of the Palestinian Revolution website. His research has appeared in a range of respected journals and scholarly venues including the American Historical Review and the Radical History Review.

In 2019, Professors Nabulsi and Takriti were awarded the Middle East Studies Association of North America Undergraduate Education Award in recognition of their pedagogical contributions to the field through The Palestinian Revolution website.

This event is co-sponsored by The Palestinian Museum, Lifta Volumes and the Center for Palestine Studies.

Join the conversation by clicking the link below at 12:00 ET / 19:00 PALESTINE

Join the Center for Palestine Studies for a conversation with Sherene Seikaly, Bashir Abu-Manneh and Nadia Abu El-Haj about the ongoing Nakba.

Sherene Seikaly
University of California, Santa Barbara

Bashir Abu-Manneh
University of Kent, United Kingdom

Nadia Abu El-Haj
Barnard College + Columbia University