Columbia University Announces New Scholarship for Displaced Students

Columbia University Announces New Scholarship for Displaced Students

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.

A “Common Space”? The Impossibilities of a New Grammar of the Holocaust and Nakba

A “Common Space”? The Impossibilities of a New Grammar of the Holocaust and Nakba

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.