ATTEND | Technology and (Anti) Colonialism on 03/04/24

UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences will host, Technology and (Anti)Colonialism, on March 4, at 4pm.

Panelists: Zaid Shuaibi, Nour AbuZaid, and Majd Shehabi, Helga Tawil-Souri, Ali H.Musleh

Moderator: Gina Dent and Jumana Abbas

This event is organized by Al-Haq FAI Unit as part of the programming for They Are Shooting at Our Shadows, their debut exhibition.

This event is online. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.

Zaid Shuaibi is the Arab World and Palestine Coordinator for the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)

Nour AbuZaid is an architect and advanced researcher at Forensic Architecture, conducting spatial research and creating computational tools for automation and visualisation. In her role as the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) liaison, she teaches FA research methodologies to collaborators in the region. She works on developing publicly accessible (web-based) research tools to disseminate to non-expert actors on the ground and support grassroots activism.

Majd Shehabi is a systems design engineer, based in Beirut. He works with a wide range of academic and cultural institutions and archives in the region to build openness into their information systems. His most recent project is Palestine Open Maps, a platform for open sourcing historical maps of Palestine.

Helga Tawil-Souri is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at NYU. Helga’s work deals with spatiality, technology, infrastructure and politics in the Middle East, with a focus on contemporary Palestine.

 Ali H. Musleh is the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University. His research explores how weapons make the worlds of war we inhabit. At CPS, he is working on his first book manuscript, To What Abyss Does This Robot Take the Earth, on the automation of settler colonialism in Palestine. Musleh is also Associate Researcher at the Hawaiʻi Research Center for Futures Studies at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (UH-M).

APPLY | Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Fellowship Application Cycle 2024-25

We are pleased to announce that the competition for 
the 2024-2025 Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Award is now open!


The Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Award is a year-long fellowship that recognizes and fosters innovative and 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.

The competition is open to all post-doctoral scholars who share the mission of the Center for Palestine Studies to advance the production and circulation of knowledge on Palestinian history, culture, society, and politics through outstanding scholarship. Special consideration will be given to projects that focus on Gaza this cycle.

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.


Applications are due on March 4, 2024.

Yosef Jabareen, Visiting Scholar at Columbia Spring 2024

Yosef Jabareen is a Professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion– Israel Institute of Technology. He is a Visiting Scholar at the Middle East Institute and the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University for the Spring 2024 semester. He Graduated from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, was a senior lecturer at the Urban Department at MIT, and was a visiting scholar at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture (MIT). At present, Jabareen is the Reviewer and Editor of Planning Theory.

Jabareen’s research focuses on the politics of state-society relations, and more specifically, he investigates the relations between state and social, ethnic, and racial groups through the unique lenses of state territoriality and demographic policy. In Israel/Palestine, he investigates the relations between Israel and the Jewish and Palestinian groups in the country, including Jerusalem and the West Bank. His work examines the types of bi-national geographies and segregated spaces the state has produced and their impact on future geo-political possibilities. Furthermore, Jabareen has been tracing the political collective action of the Palestinian minority in Israel (which constitutes 21% of the state population) and the Palestinians in East Jerusalem in resisting the state planning and space production policy.

He published numerous books and refereed articles regarding the politics of space production in Israel/Palestine, such as Orientalism and Architecture in Israel/Palestine (in Hebrew); Culturally Oriented Planning in the Negev/Naqab; Planning the Arab Cities in Israel; Planning and Civil Society among Indigenous People, National Hegemonic Territorial Planning in Israel (Arabic), and Israeli Planning in Jerusalem: Strategies of Domination and Control. In The Risk City (Springer), he recently expanded his research to study state-society relations in large cities worldwide. His forthcoming The Resilient City (Springer Nature, 2024) excavates the urban orders of New York City through the lens of space production and social justice.

Contact Information
yj2818@columbia.edu

APPLY | Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights

The Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights at the FXB Center at Harvard University and ICPH at Birzeit University is excited to announce the call for applications for the 2024-2025 Health and Human Rights Fellowship.

This year, the Fellowship will support a scholar with significant work in international humanitarian law and/or human rights law with an intersection in health and human rights as it pertains to the health of Palestinians to produce innovative scholarship in their respective field. You can find more details and the application here.

APPLY | 2024-2025 PARC FELLOWSHIPS

  • 12th National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) competition for field-based research in Palestine in the humanities or research that embraces a humanistic approach and methods. EXTENDED DEADLINE: Applications are due January 29, 2024.
     

  • 25th annual U.S. research fellowship competition for research that will contribute to Palestinian studies. EXTENDED DEADLINE: Applications are due January 22, 2024.
     

  • 16th annual Faculty Development Seminar on Palestine competition for U.S. faculty members with a demonstrated interest in, but little travel experience to, Palestine. EXTENDED DEADLINE: Applications are due January 8, 2024.
     

  • 4th Media Development Seminar on Palestine competition for U.S. faculty members in the fields of journalism, film, communication, or media with a demonstrated interest in, but little travel experience to, Palestine. EXTENDED DEADLINE: Applications are due January 8, 2024.

For complete fellowship details, including eligibility and travel contingency plans, visit the PARC website.