ATTEND | Zoom in for Rashid Khalidi's session of the Arab Center's Fifth Annual Conference

Rashid Khalidi will take part in the Arab Center’s Fifth Annual Conference, “ The 2020 US Election: Domestic and Global Implications,” on Wednesday, September 30, 2020. Khalidi will join other experts for the panel “The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Between Trump and Biden.”

The Arab-Israeli Conflict Between Trump and Biden
10:15 AM, Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Peter Beinart
American columnist, journalist, and political commentator
Professor of Journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and Professor of Political Science, The City University of New York.
 
Zaha Hassan
Human rights lawyer and Visiting Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
 
Lara Friedman
President, Foundation for Middle East Peace
 
Rashid Khalidi
Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University;
Co-Editor, Journal of Palestine Studies;
President of the Institute for Palestine Studies-USA
 
Yousef Munayyer – Moderator
Non-resident Senior Fellow, Arab Center Washington DC

CPS Co-Director Brian Boyd Receives Funding Renewal for Collaborative Project with Birzeit

Brian Boyd received renewed funding for his collaborative project “Building Community Anthropology Across the Jordan Valley” from the Columbia University President’s Global Innovation Fund for academic years 2020-22.

A collaborative Columbia University/Birzeit University archaeology and museum anthropology community project, focusing in and around the West Bank village of Shuqba, northwest of Ramallah. This project involves collaboration with local communities in producing a deep history of their village and its cultural landscapes; the establishment of a community museum; and anthropological/archaeological training and opportunities for local students. Project partners include the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, Shuqba Village Council, Riwaq, and the Columbia Global Center in Amman, Jordan. The project’s research and training is focused around the important local archaeological site of Shuqba Cave, in the Wadi Natuf, excavated in the late 1920s by Cambridge University (UK) archaeologist Dorothy Garrod and a team of Shuqba villagers. Shuqba Cave is a foundational site for the entire prehistory of the Middle East and is of global significance for the study of the origins of agriculture, domestication and settled village life around 10,000 years ago. Shuqba Cave and the Wadi Natuf were placed on the UNESCO World Heritage Sites Tentative List in 2013. The current stage of the project will culminate in the opening of the first public Shuqba Museum exhibition, titled Natufian +100: stories from Shuqba 1924-2024.

Attend | Right to Narrate: Policy Roundtable on Centering Palestinian Voices

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Wednesday, August 19th  at 11:30am ET | 8:30 am PT | 6:30pm Palestine

Join Adalah for a policy roundtable by Palestinian analysts and organizers including Sahar Francis of Addameer, Yara Hawari of Al-Shabaka, Amira Mattar of Palestine Legal, Nas Abd Elal of AlQaws, Tala al-Foqaha, University of Minnesota, and Omar Zahzah of Eyewitness Palestine and Palestinian Youth Movement to hear about what it means for Palestinians to claim their right to narrate and demand an end to US complicity in Palestinian oppression. Register

Watch | Systemic Racism in the US and Israel: Analogies and Disanalogies

The Center for Palestine Studies and the Institute for Palestine Studies co-presented, “Systemic Racism in the US and Israel: Analogies and Disanalogies” on July 14.

 

Recent police violence in the US has sparked anti-racism protests around the world and ignited a discussion of systemic racism within many societies and political systems. Despite major differences in the regimes of oppression and discrimination in the US and Israel, certain parallels exist and serve to shed light on both systems. In the case of the US and Israel, the connections go beyond analogies and extend to material links between the respective security states and policing practices, including what has been called the "Israelization" of policing.

 
 

Nadia Abu El-Haj is the Ann Olin Whitney Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Chair of the BoD, SOF/Heyman Center for the Humanities, and Co-Director of the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of two books and several journal articles published on topics ranging from the history of archaeology in Palestine to the question of race and genomics today.

Johanna Fernández teaches at the Department of History at Baruch College (CUNY). She is the writer, producer of the film, Justice on Trial: the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Her Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) lawsuit against the NYPD, led to the recovery of the largest repository of police surveillance records in the country.

Maha Nassar is an Associate Professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona and the author of Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World (Stanford University Press, 2017).

Nahla Abdo is a Palestinian-Canadian political activist and Professor of Sociology at Carleton University. She is the author of several publications, most recently Captive Revolution: Palestinian women’s Anti-Colonial Struggle Within the Israeli Prison System.

Filming Revolution, Building Solidarities · Palestine Film Institute @ Cannes Film Festival 2020

 
“These round table conversations at a distance focus on the backup plan: a concept that Palestinian filmmakers are all too familiar with. These panels aim to connect these familiar experiences to one another, toward a greater understanding of how th…

“These round table conversations at a distance focus on the backup plan: a concept that Palestinian filmmakers are all too familiar with. These panels aim to connect these familiar experiences to one another, toward a greater understanding of how the Palestinian film scene will adapt - on the fly - to the latest developments in the international industry.”

Plan B, part of the virtual pavilion of the Palestine Film Institute at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival.

 

Filming Revolution, Building Solidarities · Palestine Film Institute @ Cannes Film Festival 2020

Omar Jabary Salamanca conceived of and moderated the panel "Filming Revolution, Building Solidarities" for the virtual pavilion of the Palestine Film Institute at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival. For more information and to see all of the Palestine Film Institute’s virtual pavilion, visit the Cannes 2020 section of the PFI website.

Omar Jabary Salamanca is a research fellow and lecturer based at Ghent University. He is also the leading programmer for Eye On Palestine Arts and Film Festival. Omar was previously a Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow at Columbia University (2014-16).