A night of Arab-American comedy and performance with Daoud Heidami, Dean Obeidallah, Mariam Abu Khaled, and Ismail Khalidi.

The Center for International History and the Center for Palestine Studies present a discussion with Julia Bacha, a Columbia History graduate and director of Budrus, an award-winning documentary film about the nonviolent resistance movement to save a Palestinian village from destruction.

Please follow this link to view the lecture or read the transcript.

The master class is in English, and is free and open to the public. Filmmaker Simone Bitton -- a citizen of both France and Israel and self-defined "Arab Jew who likes neither walls nor borders" -- works and makes films in Israel and Palestine. 

The Middle East Institute at Columbia University will host author Gideon Levy, to mark the launching of his new book The Punishment of Gaza.

Meet Al Jazeera Television Gaza correspondents AYMAN MOHYELDIN and SHERINE TADROS, the only international English-language broadcasters in Gaza throughout the December 2008 and January 2009 conflict.