Join CUNY Law Students for Justice in Palestine in welcoming guests Jamil Dakwar (Director, ACLU Human Rights Project), Rashid Khalidi (Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University), and Rebecca Vilkomerson (Executive Director, Jewish Voice for Peace) for a meaningful panel discussion. Moderated by Diala Shamas, Liman Fellow, Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility (CLEAR) project at the CUNY School of Law.

What does Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) mean, and how has the BDS movement on U.S. campuses and local communities affected public discourse?

Screening from the making of The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012) followed by a conversation with the following: Mira Nair, Mabel Wilson, Anupama Rao; moderated by Lila Abu-Lughod, Director, Center for the Study of Social Difference.

We are pleased to welcome Ahmad Sa'di to Columbia University as the Arcapita Visiting Professor for the Fall semester. Ahmad H. Sa'di comes to us from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev where he is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and Government