From January to April 2021, we will present ‘Palestine, IN-BETWEEN’, a semester-long collaboration with LIFTA Volumes. For more information about the program and live events, visit the program page.
Learn more about LIFTA by visiting their website and check out a new video and conversation created by the team, hosted by Printed Matter.
https://liftavolumes.com
Voice of Insaniyyat
Ethnographic voices on Palestine and the world.
“What began in the summer of 2019 as a modest experiment has now become a series of interviews. We are eager to share this with you and hope that you can join us in our effort to foster an intellectual community across the many forms of distance we are facing. We invite you to embrace close listening with us as we engage scholars and their work around Palestine and anthropology. Through this podcast, we also seek to bring together the varied approaches to anthropology, and the intimacy of conversation through the medium of audio.”
Recorded in English and Arabic, our first four episodes are interviews with Amahl Bishara, Ala Alazzeh, Fadi Bardawil, and Khaled Furani. These cover a wide range of topics from the first Palestinian Intifada to memory and public politics to questions of sovereignty and theology to Marxist organic intellectuals in 1960s Lebanon. All episodes are available on the Insaniyyat website and also on Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Breaker, GooglePodcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher. Follow us on Instagram @voice_of_insaniyyat.
Check out the new website of The Khalidi Library! The website includes information about the history of the library, how to access the library’s catalogue, Khalidi Library Publications and more.
The Center for Palestine Studies held an event about the Khalidi Library’s significant manuscript collection and how digitization of the collection has created opportunities for new scholarship. Watch the event recording here and stay tuned for the next installment in our series, Readings in the Khalidiyya, with Konrad Hirschler on February 16, 2021 at 1pm EST.
Join RIWAQ for a Christmas concert and a virtual tour in Jerusalem villages
The event will take place on Saturday, the 12th of December 2020, at 1:00 pm (CST), 2:00 pm (EST), through Zoom.
The event includes a presentation by Riwaq's director, Arch. Shatha Safi, a music concert Turathuna, "our heritage" by Al-Kamandjati ensemble, a virtual tour in Jerusalem villages, and a talk by our guest speakers, Vivian Khalaf, Attorney at Law, and Dr. Suad Amiry, Riwaq's founder.
The Ibrahim Dakkak Award for Outstanding Essay on Jerusalem
Ibrahim Dakkak Award for Outstanding Essay on Jerusalem is an annual award launched by the Jerusalem Quarterly in 2017 to commemorate the memory and work of Ibrahim Dakkak (1929–2016), former chairman of the Advisory Board.
It is awarded to an outstanding submission that addresses either contemporary or historical issues relating to Jerusalem. A committee selected by the Jerusalem Quarterly determines the winning essay, which will thus receive a prize of U.S. $1,000 and will be published in the Jerusalem Quarterly.
If you missed our screening of Nizar Hassan’s My Grandfather’s Path (Tariq Sidi) you can now watch a recording of the Q&A with Hassan and Hamid Dabashi!
The Q&A followed the North American Premiere of the film, presented online by Palestine Cuts on December 1 and 2, 2020. In the Q&A Nizar Hassan addresses his conception of Palestine, his relationship to the land and the making and funding of the film.
Rashid Khalidi & Salim Tamari in conversation: ُThe Other Jerusalem... Tomorrow's Jerusalem
Thursday December 10, 2020
12pm EST / 7pm Palestine
Modern accounts of Jerusalem have come to privilege Zionist narratives and claims to the city. Such ideologically motivated representations deny us an understanding of Jerusalem's rich intercommunal traditions and the true scope of its modern development since the 19th century.
"The Other Jerusalem" provides a balanced approach on the history, geography, archaeology, sociology and future of Jerusalem in a featured selection of outstanding articles from the Journal of Palestine Studies and Jerusalem Quarterly.
Rashid Khalidi
Edward Said Chair in Arab Studies at Columbia University and co-editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies
Salim Tamari
Professor of Sociology at Birzeit University, Fellow at IPS, and co-editor of the Jerusalem Quarterly
Presented by the Institute for Palestine Studies
Deadline to submit extended!
December 18
Read the call for papers below and follow the link for more information on how to submit.
Over the past two decades a great deal of research on the question of Palestine has pointed to a fragmentation of the Palestinian political landscape, divisions exacerbated by the Oslo Accords. The ensuing establishment of the Palestinian Authority (PA), in particular, fostered the emergence of new political dynamics and new sources of power and legitimacy, embodied in the conflict between Fatah and Hamas that has dominated Palestinian politics since 2007. The creation of the PA also encouraged a process of capital accumulation and a restructuring of social classes after 1993. Moreover, the dispersion of Palestinians across the world, the superposition of national and international legal realities and the diversity of actors in the conflict have contributed to the multiplication of sources and resources of power. This complex set of factors has prompted questions regarding new sources, mechanisms and flows of power in Palestine, as well as resultant dynamics.