Award winner Suad Amiry and her husband, academic Salim Tamari, will be at Columbia in Spring 2019, teaching at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Tamari will also be participating in the CPS Jerusalem Project, supported by IRCPL.

The Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) announces three fellowship competitions for the year 2019-2010. PARC has two research fellowship competitions for scholars of Palestine and a travel seminar competition for scholars who are not Palestine experts but who are eager to learn more about Palestine. Applications are due in January 2019.

Essay adapted from Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo, written by Seth Anziska and published by Princeton University Press.

“We are publishing here for the first time these English-language excerpts from the secret Kahan Commission Appendix, in their original form and as an open source, so that researchers in Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, and farther afield can consult these primary sources directly. This appendix is another historical source that can elicit shock: a chilling set of memoranda that paints a more complete picture of Israeli and Phalange eagerness to foment violence against the Palestinians as part of a wider war to remake the Middle East. […] In practice, this pattern of false and dehumanizing rhetoric about “terrorists” served to countenance unrelenting violence, leading to the deaths of hundreds of innocent civilians in September 1982.”

What We CAN Do When There’s Nothing To Be Done: Strategies for Change
How can we imagine justice, practice solidarity and create change across barriers of social difference in today’s political landscape? As the acceptance of inequality has become the new norm to a degree we might have deemed unthinkable, and as public dialogue has reached an impasse, protest and resistance continue.

This conference brings together scholars, artists, and activists from around the globe whose work can inspire new ways of thinking, seeing and listening, and productive strategies of intervention for our time.

September 28, 9:30AM - 7:30PM
The Forum at Columbia University
605 W 125th St.
New York, NY 10027

CPS Co-Director Rashid Khalidi, one of the leading academics in the study of the 20th century Palestinian national movement, received the 5th WOCMES Award on Wednesday 18th of July 2018.

You can read here Prof. Khalidi's acceptance speech.

Book Launch: Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo

Dr. Seth Anziska (University College London) in conversation with CPS Faculty Prof. Rashid Khalidi (Department of History, Columbia University).

Thursday, September 20th, at 5PM
Deutsches Haus
420 West 116th Street
New York, NY 10027

Based on newly declassified international sources, Preventing Palestine charts the emergence of the Middle East peace process, including the establishment of a separate track to deal with the issue of Palestine.