Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence, and Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression
Anthropologist Amahl Bishara in Conversation with Anthropologist Rhoda Kanaaneh
Wednesday, October 19th, at 12pm New York / 7PM Jerusalem
Palestinians living on different sides of the Green Line make up approximately one-fifth of Israeli citizens and about four-fifths of the population of the West Bank. In both groups, activists assert that they share a single political struggle for national liberation. Yet, obstacles inhibit their ability to speak to each other and as a collective. Geopolitical boundaries fragment Palestinians into ever smaller groups. Through ethnography in her new book (Stanford, 2022), Bishara enters these distinct environments for political expression and action of Palestinians who carry Israeli citizenship and Palestinians subject to Israeli military occupation in the West Bank, and considers how Palestinians are differently impacted by dispossession, settler colonialism, and militarism.
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Amahl Bishara is Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Tufts University.
Rhoda Kanaaneh, an anthropologist and author of several books and articles in Palestinian anthropology, has taught anthropology and gender and sexuality studies at a number of universities, including NYU, Columbia University and most recently Fordham University.
