The Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University’s Middle East Institute is pleased to announce that the competition for the 2018-2019 Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Post-Doctoral Award is 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 28, 2018. Apply here.
CPS was recognized as "Bethlehem Ambassador" by Open Bethlehem, and was accorded with an honorary citizenship of the city of Bethlehem, formally conferred with the granting of a Bethlehem Passport.
In the picture, the filmmaker Lila Sansour with CPS faculty holding their Bethlehem passport, which acknowledges their contribution and confirms their pledge to act as an Ambassador for the city.
Read more about Open Bethlehem here. Full event description here.
CPS hosted an evening of Break the Wall plays to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the Balfour Declaration.
Break the Wall aims to provide a continually growing collection of short, free theatrical works that illuminate the central dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and cut through the fog of deliberate distortions while challenging complicity, complacency, and ignorance in mainstream discourse on Palestine/Israel.
Full event description here.
The session was organized as a workshop during which the participants discussed the Balfour Declaration and the US Immigration Act, as well as other supplemental readings. The workshop was led by Prof. Darryl Li of the University of Chicago and Pro. Maryanne Rhett of Monmouth University.
The workshop took place at Knox Hall on November 10, 2017.
CPS co-Director Rashid Khalidi participates in a roundtable organized by Al-Shabaka - The Palestinian Policy Network in occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, the British statement that paved the way for the state of Israel.
Were there any points during the past century when the Palestinians could have influenced the course of events for a different trajectory? Al-Shabaka’s historians and analysts identify six forks in the road where things might have gone differently, and draw lessons for the future.
CPS faculty Lila Abu-Lughod moderates an upcoming panel on Gender and the Technologies of State Violence. The program, part of a series of critical lectures in Reframing Gendered Violence, comprises a panel discussion with Sherene Razack (UCLA), Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian (Hebrew University and Columbia Law School), and Miriam Ticktin (The New School).
November 16 @4:30PM
Case Lounge, Jerome Green Hall
Columbia University Law School
Sixty Palestinian and Arab students from the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, and citizens of Israel participated in the 12th annual law students’ camp organized by Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel on 12-14 October 2017.
Students participated in lectures and workshops on Friday and Saturday led by leading lawyers, academics, and civil society activists. The lectures focused on varying aspects of the Palestinian Nakba, Israeli law, legal challenges to Israeli policies such as land and property appropriations, citizenship and status revocation, the rights of internally displaced Palestinians, and the right of return and its potential practical implementation.
Professor Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and Co-director of the Center for Palestine Studies lectures at the United Nations on the Balfour Declaration and the impact it has had on the Palestinian people. Full video available here.
