CPS 10 Year Report

This report celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Center for Palestine Studies, a decade of achievements to be marked by special programming, reflection and planning for the future.

The original and continuing mission of CPS is to promote the academic study of Palestine by supporting research, teaching, and intellectual collaboration among scholars within Columbia and beyond. The Center provides an institutional home for faculty, visiting scholars and students at Columbia across the academic disciplines and the arts. It builds connections with artists, scholars and institutions to strengthen the academic study and artistic representation of Palestine and Palestinians throughout the United States and around the world.

We hope you enjoy revisiting highlights from our work over the last decade and learning about our current and upcoming initiatives.

EXPLORE | LIFTA Volumes Website + more

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

LISTEN | Voice of Insaniyyat

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.

VISIT | The new website of The Khalidi Library

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.

ATTEND | Virtual Tour of Jerusalem Villages with RIWAQ

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.

SUBMIT | The Ibrahim Dakkak Award for Outstanding Essay on Jerusalem

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.

WATCH | Palestine Cuts Q&A with documentarian Nizar Hassan

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.

ATTEND | IPS Webinar with Salim Tamari and Rashid Khalidi

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