APPLY | IAL APPLICATION DEADLINE IS 1 MARCH 21

APPLICATION DEADLINE
1 MARCH 2021

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This year-long postdoctoral fellowship seeks to recognize and foster ground-breaking scholarship on issues related to Palestine and Palestinians. The award will support a scholar working on a book project in any field of the humanities or social sciences who will spend the academic year at Columbia University in New York, pursuing their research and writing, contributing to curricular matters, and participating in the intellectual life of the Center for Palestine Studies.

Established in 2010, the IAL Award was made possible through the generosity of the late Abdel Mohsin Al-Qattan in honor of his friend, the Palestinian scholar and intellectual, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod (1929-2001). Their close friendship began in the aftermath of the Nakba of 1948 and evolved into a shared commitment to justice for Palestinians to be realized through support for excellence in higher education and scholarship. Major support for the IAL Award comes from the A.M. Qattan Foundation.

For complete information about eligibility and the application process, visit the IAL section of the Center's website.

WATCH | CONVO W/ FILMMAKERS JUNA SULEIMAN + MONA BENYAMIN, MODERATED BY NADIA YAQUB

Missed our event with Juna Suleiman, Mona Benyamin and Nadia Yaqub? Watch the recording now on the Center’s YouTube channel.

Conversation + Q&A with Palestinian directors Juna Suleiman and Mona Benyamin and moderator Nadia Yaqub (UNC Chapel Hill). Discussion topics include interpersonal relationships and generational differences within Palestinian society, censorship, making film under occupation and the power of film to challenge viewers. For panelist bios and film synopses, click here.

The conversation held on 26 Jan 2021 was presented as part of 'Palestine, IN-BETWEEN,' a semester-long collaboration between the Center for Palestine Studies and LIFTA Volumes and is co-presented by Cher Asad and Lena Mansour.

The series is co-sponsored by The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities and the Center for Archaeology at Columbia University.

Don’t miss ‘Palestinian Feminist Discourses: Contemporary Views and Emerging Movements,’ the next event in the program, scheduled for 11 Feb 2021, with Riya Al'Sanah, Nour Swirki, Yara Hawari, and Ghadir al Shafie and moderated by Aamer Ibraheem.

CPS 10 Year Report

This report celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Center for Palestine Studies, a decade of achievements to be marked by special programming, reflection and planning for the future.

The original and continuing mission of CPS is to promote the academic study of Palestine by supporting research, teaching, and intellectual collaboration among scholars within Columbia and beyond. The Center provides an institutional home for faculty, visiting scholars and students at Columbia across the academic disciplines and the arts. It builds connections with artists, scholars and institutions to strengthen the academic study and artistic representation of Palestine and Palestinians throughout the United States and around the world.

We hope you enjoy revisiting highlights from our work over the last decade and learning about our current and upcoming initiatives.

EXPLORE | LIFTA Volumes Website + more

From January to April 2021, we will present ‘Palestine, IN-BETWEEN’, a semester-long collaboration with LIFTA Volumes. For more information about the program and live events, visit the program page.

Learn more about LIFTA by visiting their website and check out a new video and conversation created by the team, hosted by Printed Matter.

https://liftavolumes.com

LISTEN | Voice of Insaniyyat

Voice of Insaniyyat
Ethnographic voices on Palestine and the world.

“What began in the summer of 2019 as a modest experiment has now become a series of interviews. We are eager to share this with you and hope that you can join us in our effort to foster an intellectual community across the many forms of distance we are facing. We invite you to embrace close listening with us as we engage scholars and their work around Palestine and anthropology. Through this podcast, we also seek to bring together the varied approaches to anthropology, and the intimacy of conversation through the medium of audio.”

Recorded in English and Arabic, our first four episodes are interviews with Amahl Bishara, Ala Alazzeh, Fadi Bardawil, and Khaled Furani. These cover a wide range of topics from the first Palestinian Intifada to memory and public politics to questions of sovereignty and theology to Marxist organic intellectuals in 1960s Lebanon. All episodes are available on the Insaniyyat website and also on Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Breaker, GooglePodcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher. Follow us on Instagram @voice_of_insaniyyat.

VISIT | The new website of The Khalidi Library

Check out the new website of The Khalidi Library! The website includes information about the history of the library, how to access the library’s catalogue, Khalidi Library Publications and more.

The Center for Palestine Studies held an event about the Khalidi Library’s significant manuscript collection and how digitization of the collection has created opportunities for new scholarship. Watch the event recording here and stay tuned for the next installment in our series, Readings in the Khalidiyya, with Konrad Hirschler on February 16, 2021 at 1pm EST.

ATTEND | Virtual Tour of Jerusalem Villages with RIWAQ

Join RIWAQ for a Christmas concert and a virtual tour in Jerusalem villages

The event will take place on Saturday, the 12th of December 2020, at 1:00 pm (CST), 2:00 pm (EST), through Zoom. 

The event includes a presentation by Riwaq's director, Arch. Shatha Safi, a music concert Turathuna, "our heritage" by Al-Kamandjati ensemble, a virtual tour in Jerusalem villages, and a talk by our guest speakers, Vivian Khalaf, Attorney at Law, and Dr. Suad Amiry, Riwaq's founder.

SUBMIT | The Ibrahim Dakkak Award for Outstanding Essay on Jerusalem

The Ibrahim Dakkak Award for Outstanding Essay on Jerusalem

Ibrahim Dakkak Award for Outstanding Essay on Jerusalem is an annual award launched by the Jerusalem Quarterly in 2017 to commemorate the memory and work of Ibrahim Dakkak (1929–2016), former chairman of the Advisory Board.

It is awarded to an outstanding submission that addresses either contemporary or historical issues relating to Jerusalem. A committee selected by the Jerusalem Quarterly determines the winning essay, which will thus receive a prize of U.S. $1,000 and will be published in the Jerusalem Quarterly.