Spring 2017 — Center for Palestine Studies

U.S. Premiere
Sunday, July 16, 6:30 p.m.
Museum of the Moving Image - Bartos Screening Room
With director Mohanad Yaqubi in person

Palestine Festival of Literature: This Is Not A Border

The Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest) was established in 2008 with the aim of showcasing and supporting cultural life in Palestine, breaking the cultural siege imposed on Palestinians by the Israeli military occupation, and strengthening cultural links between Palestine and the rest of the world.

The Israeli-American Hammer-Lock on Palestine

Israel’s occupation is only made possible by unquestioning US support—but a day of reckoning is on the way.
By Rashid Khalidi

Citizenship and Nationality in Israel/Palestine

A Teachers Workshop

Presented by the Middle East Institute and the Center for Palestine Studies

Columbia University
Saturday, June 24, 2017
9 AM-4PM

The bulldozers of Shavuot, 1967

In a few weeks, the world will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War, which ended partition and began the occupation. Israelis will celebrate the “liberation” of Jerusalem.

Barghouti: BDS is growing as Israel becomes associated with far-right movements around the world

After overcoming multiple legal and administrative hurdles, including an Israeli-imposed travel ban, Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, appeared on a panel at Columbia University last night entitled “The Road to Freedom: The BDS Movement for Palestinian Rights and the Struggle Against Apartheid.”

Watch CPS Faculty Member Wael Hallaq's Lecture at Al-Qasimi College

*The Narrow Streets of Bourj Hammoud*

The CU Anthropology Department will host a screening of *The Narrow Streets of Bourj Hammoud* an ethnographic film by Joanne Nucho and Rosy Kuftedjian on *Friday, April 28th at 4pm in 328 Milbank (Barnard). *

Basma Al Sharif at the Whitney Museum of American Art | 2017 Biennial Film Program

April 29: 2 and 5 pm
Screenings

April 30: 3 pm
Screening followed by a conversation with Basma Alsharif and Sara Raza, Guggenheim UBS Map Curator, Middle East & North Africa, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

A Summer School for Critical Palestine/Israel Studies

Mada al-Carmel: Arab Center for Applied Social Research invites graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and post-docs, both local and international, to apply for a critical academic research seminar about Palestine/Israel

Double Exposure: Plays of the Jewish and Palestinian Diasporas

Join Theatre Communications Group (TCG) and Playwrights Canada Press as we celebrate the recent publication of Double Exposure: Plays of the Jewish and Palestinian Diasporas. As the first English-language anthology worldwide in any genre of drama, prose, or poetry by Jewish and Palestinian writers, Double Exposure is a groundbreaking and pointedly needed collection in today’s heated political climate.

A Sensorial Archaeology of Undocumented Migration in the Mediterranean

Monday, April 17, 2017 6:30pm
754 Schermerhorn Hall

How can we record, explore, and understand the materiality of the experience of forced and undocumented migration today? ...

Dislocations: Hala Alyan and Lauren Wein

Wednesday May 3, 2017
07:00 pm

Please join us for the launch of award-winning Palestinian-American poet and writer Hala Alyan’s debut novel Salt Houses. Set during Palestine’s Six-Day War in 1967, Salt Houses tracks one family from Nablus as they are torn from each other and their home. Joining Alyan is her editor, Lauren Wein.

OBLITERATED FAMILIES

The stories of families whose lives shattered during the 2014 Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip.

My East in Venice: Piecing together a fragmented Palestinian family.

By Nathalie Handal

CPS & Columbia members at Brown University

CPS and Columbia members participated in the fourth annual New Directions in Palestinian Studies conference at Brown University:
The Politics of Archives and the Practices of Memory
March 3-4, 2017

Searching for Convivencia with Nathalie Handal

CPS Faculty Nathalie Handal featured in the Columbia Spectator!

The Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture

Imaginative Geographies of the Black/White Atlantic
Thursday, March 9, 2017 6:15pm

Professor Catherine Hall will deliver the annual Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture.

SPECIAL REPORT: LAW RELATED ACTIVITIES, FALL 2016

Film Screening: On the Bride's Side

ON THE BRIDE'S SIDE
(Italy, 2014, 98 minutes)
Directed by Antonio Augugliaro, Gabriele Del Grande, and Khaled Soliman Al Nassiry

Gaza, the Peace Process & Two-States: Current & Future Prospects

Omar Shaban is an analyst on political economy of the Middle East and the founder of PalThink for Strategic Studies. Omar Shaban was candidate for the 1st Palestinian parliamentary elections in 1996

The Unlikely Story Behind a Palestinian Hip-Hop Film From Israel

Udi Aloni's Palestinian-Israeli film, “Junction 48,” featuring Palestinian rap artist Tamer Nafar, for which CPS faculty James Schamus was the Executive Producer.

Federico Busonero: The Land That Remains

The Architecture of Exile: Refugee Heritage

Within the context of Refugee Heritage, a new e-flux architecture project by Alessandro Petti, this panel seeks to address the potential for practices and institutions of conservation to be understood as a force capable of mobilizing the political constitution of built space.

Call for applications: Columbia University Seventh Annual Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Palestinian Studies

The Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University’s Middle East Institute is pleased to announce and to invite applications for the seventh annual Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Award, a post-doctoral fellowship in Palestinian Studies..

When I See Them, I See Us: Black Palestinian Solidarity in an Age of Struggle

In October 2015, more than sixty Black and Palestinian scholars and activists released a video that drew attention to the common struggles of their communities against state-sanctioned violence and oppression.

The Desert and the Law

Please join us for a panel discussion on deserts, extraterritoriality, and environmental conditions, featuring Branka Arsić, Allison Powers, Oren Yiftachel, and Eyal Weizman.

Higher Education Scholarship Palestine (HESPAL)

HESPAL is a British Council managed scheme, which offers scholarships to young Palestinian lecturers from universities in the West Bank and Gaza enabling them to study in the UK.

Condition Critical: Alice Rothchild in NYC

Dr. Rothchild, a recently retired obstetrician and long-time rights activist, will also be presenting her new book Condition Critical: Life and Death in Israel/Palestine. The book chronicles the three "health and human rights" delegations she undertook to Israel/Palestine, 2013-2015.

Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Palestine and Palestinian Studies at Brown University

Middle East Studies at Brown University invites applications for a one-year post-doctoral research associate in Palestine and Palestinian Studies with a possibility of renewal for a second year. The position is part of the ongoing initiative, New Directions in Palestinian Studies, which seeks to critically explore and facilitate innovative lines of academic inquiry in this field. We especially welcome candidates who thrive in an interdisciplinary environment and whose work is informed by comparative and global perspectives.

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