ATTEND | Implications of ICC's Jurisdiction on the West Bank + Gaza

On 5 February, the ICC decided that the Court's territorial jurisdiction in the Situation in Palestine extends to the territories occupied by Israel since 1967, namely Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. On 3 March, the Prosecutor announced the opening of her investigation into the Situation in Palestine.

This webinar, organized by the Institute for Palestine Studies, will examine the legal and political implications of this decision and what it may entail. Amongst the questions this webinar will address are whether this decision constitutes a recognition of Palestinian sovereignty over the territories occupied in 1967, how this affects conflicting Israeli and Palestinian claims, what the negative reactions from the U.S. and other international parties may entail, what enforcement mechanisms are likely, and what the decision means in terms of precedents for both sides.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

Ahmad Samih Khalidi (moderator) is an academic visitor at St. Antony's College, Oxford and Associate Fellow at the Center for Security Policy, Geneva, and Senior Fellow and co-editor of the Arabic journal at the Institute for Palestine Studies, Beirut.

Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Chair in Arab Studies at Columbia University, co-editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies and President of the Institute for Palestine Studies-USA.

Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and Chair of Global Law, Queen Mary University London. He served as UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Occupied Palestine (2008-2014).

Hala Khoury-Bisharat is a lecturer and the academic director of the law school in Ono Academic College, Haifa Campus and adjunct lecturer at the law faculty in Tel Aviv University.

Katherine Gallagher is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She has represented or is representing victims before the International Criminal Court including regarding persecution by Israeli officials in the Situation of Palestine.

Camille Mansour is the secretary-general of the Board of Trustees at the Institute for Palestine Studies, and chief-editor of the Interactive Timeline of the Palestine Question, a joint IPS-Palestinian Museum project.

Visit the IPS event page, here.

WATCH | Libraries in late Ottoman + post-Ottoman Bilad al-Sham w/ K. Hirschler

If you missed the second installment of Readings in the Khalidiyya, you can watch the recording now on the Center’s YouTube channel.

Konrad Hirschler, a leading scholar on regional libraries such as the Khalidiyya gave his talk, “Libraries in late Ottoman and post-Ottoman Bilad al-Sham: The Jerusalem Khalidiyya Library in Context" on 16 February 2021 at 1pm NY/ 8pm Jerusalem.

Ahmed El Shamsy, author of Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition (Princeton, 2020), gave commentary, followed by a Q&A session with the audience.

Readings in the Khalidiyya is a series about The Khalidi Library’s manuscript collection, accessibility through digitization and new scholarly inquiries.

APPLY | IAL APPLICATION DEADLINE IS 1 MARCH 21

APPLICATION DEADLINE
1 MARCH 2021

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This year-long postdoctoral fellowship seeks to recognize and foster ground-breaking scholarship on issues related to Palestine and Palestinians. The award will support a scholar working on a book project in any field of the humanities or social sciences who will spend the academic year at Columbia University in New York, pursuing their research and writing, contributing to curricular matters, and participating in the intellectual life of the Center for Palestine Studies.

Established in 2010, the IAL Award was made possible through the generosity of the late Abdel Mohsin Al-Qattan in honor of his friend, the Palestinian scholar and intellectual, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod (1929-2001). Their close friendship began in the aftermath of the Nakba of 1948 and evolved into a shared commitment to justice for Palestinians to be realized through support for excellence in higher education and scholarship. Major support for the IAL Award comes from the A.M. Qattan Foundation.

For complete information about eligibility and the application process, visit the IAL section of the Center's website.

WATCH | CONVO W/ FILMMAKERS JUNA SULEIMAN + MONA BENYAMIN, MODERATED BY NADIA YAQUB

Missed our event with Juna Suleiman, Mona Benyamin and Nadia Yaqub? Watch the recording now on the Center’s YouTube channel.

Conversation + Q&A with Palestinian directors Juna Suleiman and Mona Benyamin and moderator Nadia Yaqub (UNC Chapel Hill). Discussion topics include interpersonal relationships and generational differences within Palestinian society, censorship, making film under occupation and the power of film to challenge viewers. For panelist bios and film synopses, click here.

The conversation held on 26 Jan 2021 was presented as part of 'Palestine, IN-BETWEEN,' a semester-long collaboration between the Center for Palestine Studies and LIFTA Volumes and is co-presented by Cher Asad and Lena Mansour.

The series is co-sponsored by The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities and the Center for Archaeology at Columbia University.

Don’t miss ‘Palestinian Feminist Discourses: Contemporary Views and Emerging Movements,’ the next event in the program, scheduled for 11 Feb 2021, with Riya Al'Sanah, Nour Swirki, Yara Hawari, and Ghadir al Shafie and moderated by Aamer Ibraheem.

EXPLORE | LIFTA Volumes Website + more

From January to April 2021, we will present ‘Palestine, IN-BETWEEN’, a semester-long collaboration with LIFTA Volumes. For more information about the program and live events, visit the program page.

Learn more about LIFTA by visiting their website and check out a new video and conversation created by the team, hosted by Printed Matter.

https://liftavolumes.com

LISTEN | Voice of Insaniyyat

Voice of Insaniyyat
Ethnographic voices on Palestine and the world.

“What began in the summer of 2019 as a modest experiment has now become a series of interviews. We are eager to share this with you and hope that you can join us in our effort to foster an intellectual community across the many forms of distance we are facing. We invite you to embrace close listening with us as we engage scholars and their work around Palestine and anthropology. Through this podcast, we also seek to bring together the varied approaches to anthropology, and the intimacy of conversation through the medium of audio.”

Recorded in English and Arabic, our first four episodes are interviews with Amahl Bishara, Ala Alazzeh, Fadi Bardawil, and Khaled Furani. These cover a wide range of topics from the first Palestinian Intifada to memory and public politics to questions of sovereignty and theology to Marxist organic intellectuals in 1960s Lebanon. All episodes are available on the Insaniyyat website and also on Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Breaker, GooglePodcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher. Follow us on Instagram @voice_of_insaniyyat.

VISIT | The new website of The Khalidi Library

Check out the new website of The Khalidi Library! The website includes information about the history of the library, how to access the library’s catalogue, Khalidi Library Publications and more.

The Center for Palestine Studies held an event about the Khalidi Library’s significant manuscript collection and how digitization of the collection has created opportunities for new scholarship. Watch the event recording here and stay tuned for the next installment in our series, Readings in the Khalidiyya, with Konrad Hirschler on February 16, 2021 at 1pm EST.