Nearly 70 people crowded a room at Columbia University yesterday to hear a talk on historical divisions on the left over Palestine, and the news of the day was celebrated.

The Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University is pleased to announce that the competition for the 2020-2021 Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Postdoctoral Award is now open.

Lana Tatour, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Postdoctoral Fellow at CPS, is speaking at the Bard Center for Civic Engagement.

The Center is pleased to contribute to the The Black-Palestinian Solidarity Conference Melbourne 2019, hosted by the University of Melbourne.

The Center for Palestine Studies congratulates Nadia Abu El-Haj, Co-Director of CPS, on the publication of her latest article, “A ‘Common Space’? The Impossibilities of a New Grammar of the Holocaust and Nakba,” in The Holocaust and the Nakba: a new grammar of trauma and history, edited by Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg. Read the article here.

The Center’s sold-out reading of Ghassan Kanafani’s Returning to Haifa, adapted for the stage by Ismail Khalidi and Naomi Wallace, was reviewed in the Columbia Spectator.

In odes to the Francophone diaspora and Mediterranean crisis or in vibrant celebration of American complexity, Nathalie Handal illuminates the luxuriance and longing of deracination. A contemporary Orpheus, she hymns our most urgent and ineffable truths; her poems sing.—Claire Messud, author of The New York Times Bestseller The Emperor's Children

A nongovernmental organization, RIWAQ develops alternative architectural practices with the goal of cultivating social change. Founded by architect and writer Suad Amiry, and codirected by Dr. Khaldun Bshara and Shatha Safi, Riwaq has a multidisciplinary, majority-women team. It sees the protection of historic sites as key to the reinterpretation of fragmented landscapes, and as a strategy for the recovery of precolonial identities and memories. Working among architecture, art, and spatial design, Riwaq employs speculative ideas as a means to imagine possibilities for healing a wounded land and reclaiming space. In close collaboration with rural communities in occupied Palestine, Riwaq has shifted the paradigm of architectural conservation toward a multidisciplinary approach that accounts for personal and historical narratives, environmental factors, socioeconomic conditions, and cultural identities. Its honors include the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Curry Stone Design Prize, the Prince Claus Award, and the Habitat for the Best Worldwide Architectural Practices. CPS celebrates our colleagues at RIWAQ for their contribution to the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennale