CPS co-Director Rashid Khalidi participates in a roundtable organized by Al-Shabaka - The Palestinian Policy Network in occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, the British statement that paved the way for the state of Israel.

Were there any points during the past century when the Palestinians could have influenced the course of events for a different trajectory? Al-Shabaka’s historians and analysts identify six forks in the road where things might have gone differently, and draw lessons for the future.

CPS faculty Lila Abu-Lughod moderates an upcoming panel on Gender and the Technologies of State Violence. The program, part of a series of critical lectures in Reframing Gendered Violence, comprises a panel discussion with Sherene Razack (UCLA), Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian (Hebrew University and Columbia Law School), and Miriam Ticktin (The New School).

November 16 @4:30PM
Case Lounge, Jerome Green Hall
Columbia University Law School

Sixty Palestinian and Arab students from the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, and citizens of Israel participated in the 12th annual law students’ camp organized by Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel on 12-14 October 2017.

Students participated in lectures and workshops on Friday and Saturday led by leading lawyers, academics, and civil society activists. The lectures focused on varying aspects of the Palestinian Nakba, Israeli law, legal challenges to Israeli policies such as land and property appropriations, citizenship and status revocation, the rights of internally displaced Palestinians, and the right of return and its potential practical implementation.

Professor Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and Co-director of the Center for Palestine Studies lectures at the United Nations on the Balfour Declaration and the impact it has had on the Palestinian people. Full video available here.