Upcoming Event: New Jerusalem: Objections, a performance intervention by Hakim Bishara, Tali Keren and Lana Tatour

Upcoming Event: New Jerusalem: Objections, a performance intervention by Hakim Bishara, Tali Keren and Lana Tatour

We are happy to share that Dr. Lana Tatour, the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod post-doctoral fellow at CPS, is participating in an upcoming external event at ISCP.

The event* centers on the video work, New Jerusalem, created by Israeli artist Tali Keren and currently featured in the ISCP exhibition, Paperwork: Administrative Practice in Contemporary Art. Keren, speaking via Skype, will be joined by Palestinian writer and artist Hakim Bishara and Palestinian scholar Dr. Lana Tatour who will respond, resist, and speak about the systems of power addressed in New Jerusalem, and in particular about the way these systems impact the lives of Palestinians.

*This is event is not organized by the Center for Palestine Studies. For inquires, please be in touch with ISCP directly.

Call for Papers - A Century of Palestinian Nationalism: Modes of Political Organization and Representation since 1919

Call for Papers - A Century of Palestinian Nationalism: Modes of Political Organization and Representation since 1919

Columbia Global Centers | Amman is requesting paper proposals to present at the roundtable, A Century of Palestinian Nationalism: Modes of Political Organization and Representation since 1919. Organized in partnership with the Institut Francais Proche Orient (Ifpo), the Institute for Palestine Studies and Al Hekma Association, the roundtable will be held at Columbia Global Centers | Amman on Saturday, December 14 and Sunday, December 15, 2019.

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Gaza On Screen: An Interview with Film Festival Curator, Nadia Yaqub

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This April, Palestine Cuts presented Gaza On Screen, a three-day film festival curated by Nadia Yaqub, Professor and Chair in the Department of Asian Studies and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC Chapel Hill, showcasing films from Gaza. The program included screenings of 13 short and feature-length films, a masterclass with director Abdel Salam Shehada, a student film showcase and Q&A and an academic panel.

Read an interview with Nadia Yaqub by Laura Charney, a Master’s student in Human Rights at Columbia’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights, about Yaqub’s research and experience curating the Gaza on Screen film festival.

For more information about Gaza On Screen, visit the event listing.

Palestinian architect and academic Suad Amiry wins Tamayouz’s Women in Architecture and Construction prize

Palestinian architect and academic Suad Amiry wins Tamayouz’s Women in Architecture and Construction prize

Award winner Suad Amiry and her husband, academic Salim Tamari, will be at Columbia in Spring 2019, teaching at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Tamari will also be participating in the CPS Jerusalem Project, supported by IRCPL.