We are happy to share that Rana Barakat, the Spring 2019 Arcapita Visiting Professor in Modern Arab Studies, is participating in an upcoming event at NYU.
Columbia Global Centers | Amman is requesting paper proposals to present at the roundtable, A Century of Palestinian Nationalism: Modes of Political Organization and Representation since 1919. Organized in partnership with the Institut Francais Proche Orient (Ifpo), the Institute for Palestine Studies and Al Hekma Association, the roundtable will be held at Columbia Global Centers | Amman on Saturday, December 14 and Sunday, December 15, 2019.
The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at AUB organized a two day international conference, on June 12 and 13 2019, to launch the Palestinian Oral History Archive (POHA).
To learn more and browse the online collection, visit POHA's website.
This April, Palestine Cuts presented Gaza On Screen, a three-day film festival curated by Nadia Yaqub, Professor and Chair in the Department of Asian Studies and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC Chapel Hill, showcasing films from Gaza. The program included screenings of 13 short and feature-length films, a masterclass with director Abdel Salam Shehada, a student film showcase and Q&A and an academic panel.
Read an interview with Nadia Yaqub by Laura Charney, a Master’s student in Human Rights at Columbia’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights, about Yaqub’s research and experience curating the Gaza on Screen film festival.
For more information about Gaza On Screen, visit the event listing.
The Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University’s Middle East Institute is pleased to announce that the competition for the 2019-2020 Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Post-Doctoral Award is now open. This year-long post-doctoral fellowship seeks to recognize and foster innovative and ground-breaking scholarship on issues related to Palestine and Palestinians. The deadline for full applications including supporting letters is February 15, 2019.
