The United Nations (UN) estimates that more than 70 million people are currently living as refugees or asylum-seekers, or have been internally displaced due to wars and natural calamity – the largest such population in human history. A significant number of these individuals have had their education interrupted, severely impacting their potential for future success. The Columbia University Scholarship for Displaced Students (CUSDS) is an effort to combat this unprecedented humanitarian and economic loss by providing displaced students with the opportunity to pursue higher education at Columbia University, one of the leading educational institutions in the world.
Jadaliyya speaks with Lana Tatour about her new article, “Citizenship as Domination: Settler Colonialism and the Making of Palestinian Citizenship in Israel” in the Arab Studies Journal Vol. XXVII No. 2 (Fall 2019).
Nearly 70 people crowded a room at Columbia University yesterday to hear a talk on historical divisions on the left over Palestine, and the news of the day was celebrated.
The Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University is pleased to announce that the competition for the 2020-2021 Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Postdoctoral Award is now open.
Lana Tatour, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Postdoctoral Fellow at CPS, is speaking at the Bard Center for Civic Engagement.
The Center is pleased to contribute to the The Black-Palestinian Solidarity Conference Melbourne 2019, hosted by the University of Melbourne.
The Center for Palestine Studies congratulates Nadia Abu El-Haj, Co-Director of CPS, on the publication of her latest article, “A ‘Common Space’? The Impossibilities of a New Grammar of the Holocaust and Nakba,” in The Holocaust and the Nakba: a new grammar of trauma and history, edited by Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg. Read the article here.
The Center’s sold-out reading of Ghassan Kanafani’s Returning to Haifa, adapted for the stage by Ismail Khalidi and Naomi Wallace, was reviewed in the Columbia Spectator.
In odes to the Francophone diaspora and Mediterranean crisis or in vibrant celebration of American complexity, Nathalie Handal illuminates the luxuriance and longing of deracination. A contemporary Orpheus, she hymns our most urgent and ineffable truths; her poems sing.—Claire Messud, author of The New York Times Bestseller The Emperor's Children
