The Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University's Middle East Institute is pleased to announce the 2016-17 Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Award in Palestine Studies.

In a 2004 interview Yasser Arafat, in a state of near confinement and exhaustion, reflected upon his incapacity to move without the immediate threat of assassination, about the Palestinian right of return, about American elections, and his achievements. Among these achievements was the fact that "the Palestine case was the biggest problem in the world" and that Israel had "failed to wipe us out."

A series of lectures to address the historiography of the field 'Islamic Art' by scoring the particular moments of ruptures that fractured its foundations.

The Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University is pleased to host the recipient of the Fulbright Visiting Senior Scholar Award for the academic year 2015-2016, Abdul-Rahim Al-Shaikh. The award provides an opportunity for Palestinian professors residing in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza to lecture and/or do research at institutions in the United States.

On Monday, September 21, the Israeli architect and theorist Eyal Weizman (Goldsmiths, University of London), gave a lecture entitled "Hannibal in Rafah: A Forensic Reconstruction of One Day in the 2014 Gaza War." Weizman described the innovative techniques that he and a team of researchers used to assist Amnesty International in its recent investigation of the Israeli military's mass bombardment of the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

Mada al-Carmel - Arab Center for Applied Social Research in Haifa - will hold its second conference for Palestinian PhD students on April 15-16, 2016 in Haifa.