ATTEND | Book launch for The Cunning of Gender Violence on 9/13/23

Join us in celebrating the publication of The Cunning of Gender Violence, edited by Lila Abu-Lughod, Rema Hammami and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian.

The volume focuses on how a once visionary feminist project has folded itself into contemporary world affairs. Combating violence against women and gender-based violence constitutes a highly visible and powerful agenda enshrined in international governance and law and embedded in state violence and global securitization. Case studies on Palestine, Bangladesh, Iran, India, Pakistan, Israel, and Turkey as well as on UN and US policies trace the silences and omissions, along with the experiences of those subjected to violence, to question the rhetoric that claims the agenda as a “feminist success story.” Read more. 

The Center for the Study of Social Difference will host a panel on September 13 with contributors to the volume, including Lila Abu-Lughod and Rema Hammami. 

For more info about the launch event, click here. 

CONGRATS | Alessandra Amin: ANDREW W. MELLON POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW IN THE HUMANITIES 2023-24

The Center for Palestine Studies congratulates Alessandra Amin on her appointment as an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania!

Alessandra Amin is a historian of modern art in the Arab world, specializing in Palestinian painting and graphic arts during the second half of the twentieth century. Her work explores the aesthetic and philosophical currents mediating artists’ relationships to Palestine across chasms of space, time, and catastrophe, paying particular attention to the gendered dimensions of Palestinian futurities. Her research has been supported by the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University, the Social Science Research Council, the Palestinian American Research Center, Darat al-Funun, and the U.S. Department of Education. Her writing has appeared in Trans Asia Photography, MAVCOR Journal, and Art Journal, and is forthcoming in ARTMargins. At Penn, she will continue working on her first book project, Mother Figure: Art and the Palestinian Dream-State.

Alessandra was previously the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod 2022 - 2023 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Palestine Studies.

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READ | Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba by Areej Sabbagh-Khoury

The Center congratulates Areej Sabbagh-Khoury on the publication of her new book, Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba, available now from Stanford University Press. Areej is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was one of our first Ibrahim Abu-Lughod postdoctoral fellows in 2015.

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Among the most progressive of Zionist settlement movements, Hashomer Hatzair proclaimed a brotherly stance on Zionist-Palestinian relations. Until the tumultuous end of the British Mandate, movement settlers voiced support for a binational Jewish-Arab state and officially opposed mass displacement of Palestinians. But, Hashomer Hatzair colonies were also active participants in the process that ultimately transformed large portions of Palestine into sovereign Jewish territory. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury investigates this ostensible dissonance, tracing how three colonies gained control of land and their engagement with Palestinian inhabitants on the edges of the Jezreel Valley/Marj Ibn 'Amer.
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