ArabishWay

Sam Kigar and Rokiatou Soumaré, “Translation as Territorialization: Language and Belonging in Modern Africa” | A Translation Studies Hub Colloquium
2023-05-16 11:30 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | University of Washington – Communications Building, UW Campus, Seattle, WA, 98195, United States
“Against Translation as Metaphor: Sultanic Languages of Sovereignty in Late 19th Century Morocco”
Sam Kigar (Islamic Studies, Department of Religion, University of Puget Sound) challenges a scholarly tradition of describing religions as languages that can be translated into one another. He examines the translation of two letters by Sultan Hassan I (r. 1873-1894) about his journeys to the Sūs region of southern Morocco. The Sultan was not translating forms of Islamic sovereignty into “foreign” territorial terms, instead, he was participating in the territorialization of the Sūs.
“Decentering French to re-center Wolof: Translation as a Nationalist Performance in Boubacar Boris Diop’s Work”
Rokiatou Soumaré (French and Francophone Studies, University of Puget Sound) proposes that Senegalese novelist Boubacar Boris Diop positions himself in his work as a nationalist linguistic activist by writing in Wolof instead of French, Senegal’s lingua franca. For Diop, translating these essential pieces initiated an ambitious political project that aligns with his nationalistic views, and his rejection of French hegemony.

EVENT INTERVAL
Single day event

CAMPUS LOCATION
Communications Building (CMU)

CAMPUS ROOM
202

EVENT TYPES
Lectures/Seminars

EVENT SPONSORS
Simpson Center for the Humanities, humanities@uw.edu, 206.543.3920
Department of French and Italian Studies

Kahlil Gibran ~ In Search of a Prophet
2023-05-17 18:30 - 19:30 | Virtual
This event commemorates the 100th Anniversary of the publication of Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet.
Join Paul-Gordon Chandler in conversation with Q&A about his new book, In Search of a Prophet: A Spiritual Journey with Kahlil Gibran, exploring the all-embracing spirituality of Kahlil Gibran, the Lebanese born Arab-American poet-artist, mystic and best-selling author of The Prophet.
In Search of a Prophet is a fascinating journey through the spiritual life of Kahlil Gibran. Paul-Gordon Chandler explores this beloved writer and artist, a mystic who sought to build bridges and tear down walls.
In Search of a Prophet is not a traditional biography, but a compelling spiritual journey through Gibran’s writings, art, and the places he lived. From his birthplace village high in the snowy mountains of Lebanon, Chandler leads us through his emigration to Boston, art training in Paris, career in New York, and to the far reaching places of influence his writings and art have traveled, from Cairo to Mexico City.

SUPER-UW Conversation: how to discuss Palestine with different audiences and age groups
2023-05-18 18:00 - 19:30 | UW-Seattle
Join SUPER-UW for a conversation with Laila Taji, Dr. Alice Rothchild, and Prof. Nada Elia on the ways in which we discuss Palestine with different audiences and age groups.

UW Electrical & Computer Engineering, Room 037
from 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Voices from the Holy Land: Online Film Salon
2023-05-21 12:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
Two documentary films, Voices across the Divide and Born in Deir Yassin, pull back the carefully constructed curtain of “a land without people for a people without a land.” Since 1948, a monumental effort has been made to promote a romantic mythology of Israel’s creation and to hide the brutal violence. But firsthand accounts by both the oppressor and the oppressed, the expeller and the exiled, reveal the ongoing wounds. Nothing is resolved by dialogue alone, yet nothing will be resolved without it. Any hope of coexistence begins when the historical truth is rediscovered and acknowledged. It begins here.
Watch the film for free at your convenience; then join the Q&A Discussion with:
Alice Rothchild: Author, filmmaker, and Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School (Retd.)
Emad Moussa: Palestinian-British journalist, researcher, and human rights activist
Huda Giddens: Palestinian American educator, Nakba survivor
Ahlam Muhtaseb (moderator): Author, filmmaker, and Professor of Media Studies at CSUSB
You must register to join the discussion & receive access to the film: Tinyurl.com/VFHL-May2023
Watch the Trailers: 1) vimeo.com/818747654 2) vimeo.com/818744242
How this will work:
1 – Register here for the Voices from the Holy Land Online Film Salon:
Tinyurl.com/VFHL-May2023
2 – Once you register, you will get a confirmation email from Zoom with a link to the meeting and a link with to watch the film. (Save this confirmation letter as the meeting link is unique to your email and you must have this to participate.)
3 – Watch the film at your convenience before the event. Then join us with your thoughts and questions for our speakers at the Q&A Discussion on Sunday May 21, 2023 at 3 pm ET/ 12 noon PT.

Book Talk with Dr. Jenny Lynn Kelly
2023-05-22 16:00 - 18:00 | Virtual
We are writing to invite you to a special virtual event and ask you to mark your calendar to join us on May 22, 2023, at 7:00PM EST for a book talk with Dr. Jenny Lynn Kelly. Dr. Kelly is a former Eyewitness Palestine delegate, faculty member at the University of California Santa Cruz, and author of the recently-released Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism Across Occupied Palestine. The event will be hosted via Zoom and donors of an eligible amount will receive a signed copy of Dr. Kelly’s book, so keep an eye out for the registration link coming soon!

Honoring Palestinian Fathers with PFC
2023-06-17 11:00 - 13:00
Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC) warmly invites you to join us for our June 2023 Feminist Futures Program. This month we are honoring Palestinian fathers with a virtual event meant to create space for, honor and recognize the complex lived experiences and realities of Palestinian fathers. We will be hosting two incredible speakers: Raja Shehadeh, author of the memoir We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I, and Abeer Otman, postdoctoral scholar, who will unpack how Zionist settler colonialism impinges on Palestinian fatherhood, as well as how fathers defy settler colonialism by showing love, care, and protection for their families and homes. As Palestinian feminists, we will conceptualize: What are the experiences of Palestinian fathers – diverse and complicated? How do we tell these stories of fatherhood? How can we continue to hold them and make space for them in our pursuit of Palestinian liberation?

Abeer Otman’s postdoctoral research investigates father-child connectivity under the settler-colonial context. She has a doctorate in social work from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her doctoral research focused on fathers and fatherhood in a settler colonial context: the case of occupied East Jerusalem (OEJ). As a community and social worker in East Jerusalem for more than ten years, she engages in local activities concerning fulfillment of socio-economic rights, improving physical spaces, developing social and educational services.
Raja Shehadeh is a Palestinian lawyer, human rights activist, and writer. He co-founded the Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq in 1979. He is the author of several books, including Palestinian Walks, which he won the Orwell Prize in 2008. In addition to his legal work, Shehadeh has written a number of books about Palestine through the lens of his life, including Strangers in the House (2002), Occupation Diaries (2012), and his latest, We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir (2022).

Online Class: Spotlight on Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad With Heba F. El-Shazli
2023-06-20 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
Isabella Hammad’s new novel, Enter Ghost, features an actor’s return to Palestine via the staging of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the West Bank which reflects the turmoil within Palestinian society. If you enjoyed her first debut novel, The Parisian, then please join us on another journey into Palestinian society and a quest for self-healing, political knowledge, and a painful awakening. One Tuesday, June 20th, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. EDT
Online

SWANA Style Series: Thobe Fabric Identification (1900-1948)
2023-08-03 16:00 - 17:00 | Virtual
Date/Time: August 3, 7pm EST
Format: Virtual Event
Fee: Sliding Scale $10 or $25
The SWANA Style Series is a lecture series focused on exploring the traditional dress of cultural communities living in SWANA (Southwest Asia & North Africa). The aim of this series is to bring awareness to styles that have generally been left out of the historical record, however have great historical origination stories. Our cultural memory must preserve this knowledge for the next generation.
In this lecture, the instructor will discuss the main fabrics produced and used for dresses across historic Palestine. Learn how to identify al Majdal royal fabric to Syrian silks in this informative lecture by Wafa!
Note: This lecture is recorded. You are welcome to register for the lecture and watch the recording at a later time. The recording is sent 48 hours after the event.

ONLINE CLASS: Spotlight on Newly Translated Memoirs of an Arabian Princess
2023-09-14 15:30 - 17:30 | Virtual
Price:

$50 Per Person (10% off for members)

Lecture and Discussion. This live class will be recorded and available for later viewing.
Beyond the fairy tales and exotic images, Zanzibar and Oman are real destinations, each with its own history, culture and proud people – people like Sayyida Salme, Princess of Oman and Zanzibar. After becoming Emily Ruete, she would be the first Arab woman to publish a book. The class will focus on her great-great-granddaughter Andrea Emily Stumpf’s newest and most accurate translation of these Memoirs, to be discussed with all their striking drama, bright moments and dark truths.
This class will be taught in conversation with Andrea Emily Stumpf.
One Thursday: September 14 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET Online

Required Book:
Memoirs of an Arabian Princess, translated by Andrea Emily Stumpf (9781732397538) Book is non-returnable.

Karen Leggett Abouraya is a journalist and children’s author, winning the 2013 Arab American Book Award and other honors for Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt’s Treasured Books. She is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Egypt, and with her Egyptian-born husband, chairs the Baltimore Luxor Alexandria Sister City Committee and the Friends of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) Maryland, Virginia, D.C. Together they also produce the podcast American Egyptian Women of Influence. Karen facilitates online conversations between Egyptian and American children and co-hosted a conference on informal education at the BA in 2015. She reviewed children’s books for the New York Times, is a past president of the Children’s Book Guild of Washington, D.C. and has served as a judge for children’s writing contests in Egypt and Montgomery County. She earned her B.A. in international relations from Brown University.

Art Under Occupation - Virtual Panel
2023-09-21 09:00 - 10:30 | Virtual
Eyewitness Palestine is back with the next Zoom event in our monthly series, “Art Under Occupation,” which features several globally-recognized Palestinian artists, including Saleh Bakri, Sliman Mansour, Dareen Tatour, Kher Fody, & Yazid Sadi. Saleh Bakri is a Palestinian actor who has starred in films like “The Present” (2020) and “Salt of this Sea” (2008). Sliman Mansour is the painter responsible for the one of the most iconic Palestinian artworks, “Camel of Hardships” and “Woman with Jerusalem.” Dareen Tatour is the internationally recognized poet who was jailed by Israel for one of her poems. While she was incarcerated, she spoke out about abuse she’d experienced as a child, and, by doing so, empowered Palestinian women from all over to tell their own stories. Kher Foudy is a multi-talented artist who paints pictures using Arabic calligraphy and is also the frontman of the iconic Palestinian band “Walaat,” whose music of resistance showcase the resilience of the Palestinians of occupied Akka. Yazid Sadi, embodying the Akkawi spirit, balances being a talent manager and the owner of an art gallery & cafe in the Old City of Akka, Nawaya Gallery and We look forward to hearing from these artists about the beauty and struggle of their work under occupation and hope that you’ll join us in welcoming them on September 21st at 12pm Noon ET/9am PT.
It is our goal to raise as much funding as possible. However, we do not want price to be a barrier to entry. If you do not have the capacity to donate, but would still like to attend, please email us at info@eyewitnesspalestine.org with the subject “Art Under Occupation” to receive the event link.

Conflict, Hope, Peace, and Public Health in Palestine - Lecture
2023-10-05 10:00 - 11:30 | University of Washington – Hans Rosling Center, 3980 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States
Join the DGH DEI Committee for a discussion with Professor Izzeldin Abuelaish on conflict, hope, peace, and public health in Palestine.
Thursday, October 5, 2023 | 10:00-11:30 a.m.
Hans Rosling Center Room 101
Prof. Izzeldin Abuelaish is a Palestinian Canadian physician and an internationally recognized human rights and peace activist devoted to advancing health and education opportunities for women and girls in the Middle East. Born and raised in Jabalia Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip, he is the first Palestinian doctor to receive an appointment in Medicine at an Israeli hospital. Through his work, he has experienced firsthand the impacts of conflict in many countries. His experience working as both an insider and outsider to conflict has led him to believe that doctors are particularly well-poised to serve as peacemakers, based on the moral doctrine of their profession. His work as both a healthcare practitioner and a peace advocate builds on this philosophy of health as a tool for peace. Prof. Abuelaish has been nominated five times for Nobel Peace Prize.

Dr. Abuelaish’s book, I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey, an autobiography inspired by the loss of his three daughters to Israeli shelling, has achieved critical acclaim and has been translated into 23 languages. It is available as an e-book from the UW library and the Seattle Public Library.

Interlaced Communities: The Language of Palestinian Embroidery with Wafa Ghnaim [Portland]
2023-10-28 12:00 - 16:00 | Textile Hive, Textile Hive 133 Southwest 2nd Avenue Suite 203, Portland, Oregon, 97204
Palestinian researcher, author and teacher Wafa Ghnaim will be presenting a history of storytelling in Palestinian embroidery, including a cross-stitching master class and stitching circle where participants can learn, practice, and discuss the art to connect with their heritage and preserve the craft for future generations.
Also, on display as part of the event, there will be historic Palestinian textiles from the Textile Hive Andrea Aranow collection, along with textiles from Wafa’s personal collection, to honor the important traditions that will be carried forward through this community gathering.
Schedule
12:00-1:30pm: Lecture: Palestinian Embodiment Through Adornment & Dress, Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
1:30-1:45pm: Break for questions and discussion
1:45-3:00pm: Master Class (registration required through this link) Palestinian Fellahi Embroidery Technique
3:00-4:00pm: Stitching Circle and Discussion, Reflections, Creations

Providing the Palestinian Perspective on the Current Events in Gaza [Virtual]
2023-10-29 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
Please click the above underlined title of the event to go to the registration page.

This is a Hybrid Event, meaning you can attend virtually via Zoom or, in-person at the Palestine Museum US, 1764 Litchfield Turnpike, Woodbridge, Connecticut, USA. The program begins at 2:00 PM US EDT; 20:00 Europe; 21:00 Palestine Time.
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese will participate in the Palestine Museum US Open House Event providing insight into the legal implications of Israeli actions in Gaza.
Palestine Museum US Open House
Providing the Palestinian Perspective on the Current Events in Gaza
We would like to announce that Palestine Museum US will be hosting an open house event to shed light on the current events in Gaza. In light of the Western media’s biased coverage and one-sided narrative that often favors Israel, it is crucial to provide an alternative perspective that delves into the historical context and Israel’s actions over the past 75 years that have contributed to the current situation. Our aim is to present a comprehensive understanding of the complex dynamics at play and offer an opportunity for visitors to uncover the true facts. By joining us at the open house, attendees will have the chance to learn about the rich historical background of Palestine and gain valuable insights that are often omitted from mainstream narratives. We invite all interested individuals to come and engage in meaningful conversations that have the potential to broaden horizons and foster a more comprehensive understanding of the Palestinian struggle for freedom and justice.

Information Professionals and Academic Freedom in a Time of Cultural Terrorism.
2023-11-12 12:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
Open House – Week 5
This Sunday November 5, 2023, 12:00 Noon US EST; 19:00 Palestine; 18:00 Europe.
Our Topic:
Information Professionals and Academic Freedom in a Time of Cultural Terrorism.
Please click here to register for this event.
Information Professionals and Academic Freedom in a Time of Cultural Terrorism .
Join us for a thought-provoking conversation on the pressing issue of academic freedom and the role of information professionals in today’s climate of cultural terrorism.

No Tech For Apartheid: Panel
2023-11-27 11:30 - 13:00 | Virtual
Join us in a series of discussions with an amazing group of scholars, journalists and activists to learn about tech enabled Israeli apartheid, the history of tech workers in both enabling and dismantling apartheid, and what you can do to support Palestinians.

***Register through Ticket Tailor to receive a link to the live-streamed video on the day of the event. This event will also be recorded and captioning will be provided.***
Speakers:
Caroline Hunter co-founded the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement.
Marwa Fatafta leads Access Now’s policy & advocacy work on digital rights in MENA region.
Mona Shtaya is Campaigns & Partnerships Manager (MENA) and Corporate Engagement Lead at Digital Action. She was also advocacy & communications manager at 7amleh.
Ariel Koren was pushed out of Google for advocacy on the #NoTechForAparthied and Drop Nimbus campaigns.
Antony Loewenstein is the author of The Palestine Laboratory.
Matt Mahmoudi is Researcher/Adviser on Artificial Intelligence & Human Rights at Amnesty Tech, and co-author of Digital Witness. He is a professor at University of Cambridge.
Timnit Gebru (moderator) is the founder and executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR). Prior to that she was fired by Google in December 2020 for raising issues of discrimination in the workplace, where she was serving as co-lead of the Ethical AI research team.
Alex Hanna (moderator) is Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). A sociologist by training, her work centers on the data used in new computational technologies, and the ways in which these data exacerbate racial, gender, and class inequality.
———————————————————————
This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) and is part of Until Liberation: A Series for Palestine by Haymarket Books cosponsored by Palestinian American Organizations Network, Mondoweiss, Spectre, Dissenters, Tempest, Palestine Deep Dive, The New Arab, and more. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work. A portion of the proceeds from this event will be donated to Palestine Legal and Respond Crisis Translation

The Legacies of Edward W Said: Academic Praxis and the Question of Palestine: online panel discussion
2023-11-29 07:30 - 09:00 | Virtual
Sijal Institute invites you to join the upcoming online panel discussion in partnership with TWAILR entitled “The Legacies of Edward W Said: Academic Praxis and the Question of Palestine.”
Register via the link in our bio
يدعوكم معهد سجال لحضور حلقة نقاشية باللغة الإنجليزية عبر الإنترنت بالتعاون مع Third World Approaches to International Law Review (TWAILR) عنوانها“The Legacies of Edward W Said: Academic Praxis and the Question of Palestine”.
نرجو التسجيل لمن يرغب بالحضور عبر هذا الرابط (يمكن إيجاده على صفحتنا الرئيسية أيضًا):
https://rb.gy/kh3j6b

Author Meets BookTok: Sim Kern and Rashid Khalidi on “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine”
2023-12-04 07:00 - 08:30 | Virtual
10am EST / 3pm GMT / 5pm Gaza
Register: https://tinyurl.com/msmdep3u
Join us for this can’t miss event: Sim Kern in conversation with Rashid Khalidi, author of the New York Times bestseller, and Booktok favorite, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017. Hosted by Librarians and Archivists with Palestine, we will explore Palestinian history, learn about Gaza’s place in it, and how history can help all of us, especially book influencers, meet this moment of mobilization against genocide and war. We are proud to host this event as part of Read Palestine Week.
This event will be recorded.

PFC Teach In: War on the Diaspora
2023-12-10 17:00 - 18:30
We are a hosting a teach-in on the ongoing history of violence and repression on the Palestinian/Arab community in the U.S. We look at this violence as part of the larger imperial, supremacist, colonial Western strategy in the region. We’ll discuss surveillance, violence, censorship and more.
Watch the Livestream Here

The Palestinian Revolution: Then and Now: A Two-Part Study
2023-12-15 18:00 - 20:00 | Register for Location
Join PYM and PSL on December 15th from 6-8pm for a two-part study of Ghassan Kanafani’s book: The Revolution of 1936-1939 in Palestine, a foundational analysis of Palestinian resistance from one of Palestine’s most influential voices. Come prepared to engage in a discussion and connect with your community about Palestinian liberation! 🇵🇸🇵🇸
Registration required!
Visit bit.ly/Kanafani or screenshot this post and view it in your photos, and scan! See you there!

Author Talk: Israel and Gaza in the News
2023-12-29 18:30 - 20:30 | Ada’s Technical Books and Cafe, 425 15th Avenue East, Seattle, Washington, 98112
The fast-paced news cycle coupled with demands from social media to “pick a side” have confused audiences trying to follow the events in Israel and Gaza. This talk aims to provide context behind popular circulating narratives and tools for detecting misinformation.
This talk will be hosted by Sara Shaban, author of Iranian Feminism and Transnational Ethics in Media Discourse.
About the Author: Sara Shaban identifies as a critical/cultural scholar focused on the intersections between media, women’s social movements, and geopolitics in the Middle East. Shaban’s academic work is rooted within the theoretical frameworks of transnationalism and femonationalism. Her award-winning research is published in the International Journal of Communication, Communication and Critical Cultural Studies, and Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism.
Prior to life in academia, Shaban worked in U.S. local news as a producer before pursuing freelance journalism in Israel, the West Bank, and Sierra Leone. Shaban is fueled by her passion for social justice, specifically for immigrants and refugees. She was involved in initiatives to improve conditions for incoming refugees during the 2015 crisis and served as a volunteer and board member for the Immigrant and Refugee Women’s Program in St. Louis. Additionally, she served as the communications director for the St. Louis based NGO Project Peanut Butter — an organization committed to the eradication of child malnutrition throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
Free to Attend
in the Programming Room

Curious About Gaza: Virtual Discussion
2024-01-07 15:00 - 17:00 | Virtual
Curious About Gaza?
Join us for an online panel discussion on Sun Jan 07 2024 at 15:00:00 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time) .
After registering here and before the event date, you will receive an email with more information about how to join us online.

We will share the Palestinian Peace Perspective, in light of the crisis that has continued since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. Discussion will provide insight into the 75 year conflict and how we arrived where we are today. Panelists will include a Muslim Palestinian, a Christian Palestinian, a secular Jew, and an observant Jew. There will be opportunity for questions after the panel presentation.
We will deepen our understanding and awareness of the situation in occupied Gaza
in order to combat misinformation and censorship regarding what is happening to the
Palestinian people and the roots of the conflict.
Inquiries to CuriousAboutGaza@gmail.com

In Conversation: Sophia Al-Maria and Arbella Bet-Shlimon
2024-01-11 17:30 - 19:30 | Henry Art Gallery, 15th Avenue NE + NE 41st Street, Seattle, WA, 98195, United States
Join us for an evening with artist Sophia Al-Maria in conversation with University of Washington Williams Family Endowed Associate Professor in History, Arbella Bet-Shlimon. Al-Maria is a Qatari-American artist, writer, and filmmaker whose current Henry exhibition, Not My Bag, interrogates histories of colonial authority in contemporary culture. Bet-Shlimon’s teaching and research focuses on the politics, society, and economy of twentieth-century Iraq and the broader Persian Gulf region, as well as Middle Eastern urban history.
Through sharing of personal stories and literary, journalistic, and scholarly references that have been crucial to their work, Al-Maria and Bet-Shlimon will explore how historical fiction and a critical study of histories can be acts of dissent while looking toward global social change.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Sophia Al-Maria has had solo exhibitions at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Qatar; the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow; the Tate Britain, London; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; among other institutions. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London; LUMA Arles, France; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the New Museum, New York; the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy; and numerous other venues. She has been writer in residence at the Whitechapel Gallery, London. She is the author of three books: Sad Sack (Book Works, London, 2019), Virgin with a Memory (Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester, 2014), and The Girl Who Fell to Earth (Harper Perennial, New York, 2012).

Arbella Bet-Shlimon is a historian of the modern Middle East. In her research and teaching she focuses on the politics, society, and economy of twentieth-century Iraq and the broader Persian Gulf region, as well as Middle Eastern urban history. Among others her teaching has been recognized by the UW’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Bet-Shlimon’s first book, City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk (Stanford University Press, 2019), explores how oil and urbanization made ethnicity into a political practice in Kirkuk, a multilingual city that was the original hub of Iraq’s oil industry.

Discussion: Intersection of Global Struggles for Liberation
2024-01-26 13:00 - 15:00 | Evergreen State College, 2700 Evergreen Pkwy NW, Olympia, WA, 98505
The Reinterpreting Liberation program and the Center for Community-Based Learning and Action (CCBLA) at The Evergreen State College present a discussion about how global struggles for liberation intersect.

With a focus on the genocide in Gaza, Nada Elia and Jesse Hagopian will discuss how global struggles for liberation intersect and how this informs their work as activists and educators. This event, which is open to the community, is moderated by Jen Marlowe, founder of DonkeySaddle Projects, author, and filmmaker.

Jesse Hagopian has been an educator for over twenty years and taught for over a decade at Seattle’s Garfield High School, the site of the historic boycott of the MAP test. He is an editor for the social justice periodical Rethinking Schools and the book More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing. He is a co-editor of Black Lives Matter at School, Teaching for Black Lives, Teacher Unions and Social Justice, and an organizer with the Black Lives Matter at School movement. In 2011, Jesse participated in the Interfaith Peace Builder’s historic first African Heritage Delegation that brought 14 African Americans to Israel and Palestine to meet with civil society organizations, human rights groups, and grassroots activists to better understand the conflict. Jesse will join the panel over Zoom.

Nada Elia teaches Arab American Studies and Cultural Studies at Fairhaven College, WWU, where she is affiliated with the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program. A scholar-activist, Nada is a member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective, and regularly publishes editorials about gender, activism, and transnational struggles. She is the author of Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine. She has co-edited Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader, the INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence Activist Toolkit, and the award-winning The Revolution Will Not Be Funded, and has contributed chapters to numerous anthologies, including, most recently, Palestine: A Socialist Introduction. T

lack Palestinian Solidarity: Struggle for
Joint Liberation
Friday, January 26
1:00-3:00PM
Purce Hall 1 – The Evergreen State College

The ICJ, Biden Lawsuit and Conditioning U.S. Military Funding to Israel
2024-01-30 07:00 - 09:00 | Virtual
Our first briefing – “The ICJ, Biden Lawsuit and Conditioning U.S. Military Funding to Israel” – is co-sponsored by the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU), +972 Magazine and Jewish Currents and will take place Tuesday, January 30 at 10:00 am ET. A panel of experts will unpack legal efforts to hold Israel to account for human rights violations in Gaza and explore the latest efforts on Capitol Hill to condition U.S. military funding to Israel.
You can register for the event here.
The briefing comes after a pivotal week in ongoing efforts to halt Israel’s destruction of Gaza and its people. Tomorrow, the ICJ is scheduled to respond to South Africa’s request for provisional measures in its case against Israel. Meanwhile, in a courtroom on the other side of the Atlantic, plaintiffs will testify before a U.S. federal court in the case of Defense for Children International – Palestine v. Biden, a lawsuit against senior Biden administration officials for their failure to prevent, and for their complicity in, the Israeli government’s unfolding genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
I look forward to moderating the briefing with our speakers, who include:

Chantal Meloni, a criminal lawyer and professor at the Università degli Studi di Milano Statale, Italy who represents victims in Palestine before the International Criminal Court. She is a senior legal advisor to the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights for the program International Crimes and Accountability.

Diala Shamas, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, which is representing the plaintiffs in Defense for Children International – Palestine v. Biden.

Matt Duss, executive vice-president at the Center for International Policy and former foreign policy advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders.

Amjad Iraqi, a senior editor at +972 Magazine and policy member of the think tank Al-Shabaka.

Please join us on Tuesday, January 30, from 10:00-11:00 am ET. Click here to register. The briefing will be on-the-record and conducted virtually. A Zoom link will be provided upon registration.

Lecture: The Question of Palestine and the Evolution of Solidarity and Resistance in the U.S
2024-01-30 17:00 - 18:30 | UW – HUB, 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA, 98195, United States
Join us for The Question of Palestine and the Evolution of Solidarity and Resistance in the U.S., a talk and discussion featuring Karam Dana, Alyson McGregor Distinguished Professor of Excellence and Transformative Research University of Washington – Bothell, as part of our War in the Middle East Lecture Series on the aftermath of Oct. 7, the war in Gaza and responses worldwide. RSVP here. Walk-ups welcome. This is an in-person event with a livestream option.
This event is free and open to the public.
About the speaker
Karam Dana is an Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell. His research examines Palestinian political identity and the impact of Israeli occupation on Palestinian society. He also studies American Muslims, how they are racialized, and what affects their political participation in the US. Professor Dana is the Director of the American Muslim Research Institute (AMRI), and the principal investigator of two ongoing projects: The Middle East Public Opinion Project (MEPOP), and the Muslim American Public Opinion Survey (MAPOS). His articles are widely published in leading social science and interdisciplinary journals on the Question of Palestine and American Muslims.
Tuesday, Jan. 30 | Husky Union Building (HUB) 211B-South Ballroom
Time: 5:00-6:20 p.m.
Title: The Question of Palestine and the Evolution of Solidarity and Resistance in the U.S.
Speaker: Karam Dana (UW Bothell)
RSVP here

This event has a livestream option. To watch it, click here.

Voices of Women Under Occupation: Panel
2024-01-31 09:00 - 10:30
Join Eyewitness Palestine on Wednesday, January 31st at 12 noon ET for our Voices of Women Under Occupation, featuring a variety of women speakers who will share stories about their lives under Israeli occupation. During this webinar, you will also hear from advocates who work with the Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling (WCLAC). WCLAC is responsible for the only women’s shelter in Palestine and has helped provide resources and counseling to women throughout historic Palestine.
Participation in this event is free as Eyewitness Palestine is seeking to highlight voices in Palestine as broadly as possible. Donations are appreciated. 50% of all proceeds will go to WCLAC

K-12: Curriculum Share w/ Teaching While Muslim and NYC Educators for Palestine
2024-02-03 07:00 - 09:00 | Virtual
On February 3rd from 10AM-12PM Teaching While Muslim and NYC Educators for Palestine will be hosting a virtual “curriculum share” geared to K-12 classroom teachers. At this session, teachers will have the opportunity to present and share original lessons and materials they have developed on topics such as Palestinian history, the history of Israeli occupation, and the ongoing genocide in Gaza–every teacher who attends the curriculum share will leave with a collection of lessons they can use with their students.
Our hope is that by creating space to share resources and build meaningful connections, that we can empower each other to serve as changemakers within our individual schools. We especially want to highlight the incredible work educators are doing right now to combat hate, misinformation, and misunderstanding during this critical time. If you are an educator who has developed a lesson around Palestinian history, or the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and you’d like to present it to other teachers on February 3rd, please fill in the form below! Generous humans who donate lessons will be contacted by event organizers to answer questions and provide further details.
Teaching While Muslim and NYC Educators for Palestine will highlight the incredible work educators are doing right now to combat hate, misinformation, and misunderstanding during this critical time.
RSVP HERE to attend this free, virtual event.

Live from Gaza: Arts for Survival webinar
2024-03-13 09:00 - 10:30 | Virtual
Join Eyewitness Palestine on Wednesday, March 13th at 12PM ET for our Live from Gaza: Arts for Survival webinar, in partnership with the Delia Arts Foundation located in the Gaza Strip. This webinar will feature Gaza’s program manager, Ayman Jamal Mghamis, who is based in Gaza. Delia Arts Foundation’s Executive Director, Joelle Khayat, will also be joining the webinar to discuss the ways Delia Arts is shifting their work in the midst of genocide to support artists.
Participation in this event is free as Eyewitness Palestine is seeking to highlight voices in Palestine as broadly as possible. Donations are appreciated and 50% of monies raised will support the Delia Arts Foundation.

ISRAELISM: Film Screening
2024-03-16 19:15 - 21:00 | Tacoma Community College, 6501 South 19th Street, Tacoma, WA, 98466, United States
ISRAELISM” Film Screening and
Q&A with the Creators

Saturday, March 16, 7:15 PM
Tacoma Community College
6501 South 19th Street, Tacoma
Auditorium in Building 2, off South 12th Street

This is a timely screening of a documentary about the experiences of two American Jews and their subsequent ‘unlearning’ of unconditional support for Israel and the negation of all things Palestinian.

Following the film, there will be a discussion and Q&A with Erin Axelman, the film’s director, and Simone Zimmerman, one of two people featured in the documentary. Zimmerman is also a co-founder of If Not Now.

The Rachel Corrie Foundation is pleased to cosponsor this event, which is hosted and sponsored by our colleagues at Jewish Voice for Peace-Tacoma.
The film and presentation are free and open to the public. For more information, find the event on Facebook.

Online Film Salon Discussion: Films on "Hydropolitics"
2024-03-17 12:00 - 15:00 | Virtual
Register: Tinyurl.com/VFHL-March2024Watch the films at your convenience!
Join the panel at 12pm!

www.voicesfromtheholyland.org/salonrecordings

Invitation to an Online Film Salon
Sunday March 17, 2024

Controlling the supply, distribution, and cost of water to an occupied people is apartheid in action. Israel, through legal and illegal means, maintains near-complete control over the region’s freshwater aquifers, severely restricting Palestinians’ abilities to drill wells, install pumps, build water tanks, or even collect rainwater. The average Israeli consumes over 3 times the water used by Palestinian on the water grid in the West Bank (9 times the water used by those off the grid). West Bank Palestinians pay 1/3 or more of their income to Israeli companies for drinking water. Meanwhile, Gazans are now consuming less than 3 liters per day—hardly enough for survival.
VFHL offers three short videos describing the “hydropolitics” and structural water apartheid in the Holy Land. Our panel discussion will explore designed inequalities in water distribution; the physical, economic and regulatory controls; as well as the ecological problems of pollution and over-extraction
Watch the videos for free at your convenience; Join the Q&A Discussion with:
Nancy Murray–Co-founder of Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine
Mazin Qumsiyeh–Director of the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability
Eyal Hareuveni–Author, Parched: Israel’s Policy of Water Deprivation in the West Bank
Jeff Halper (Moderator) – Israeli-American anthropologist, author, lecturer, and political activist; founder of Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)
You must register to join the discussion & receive access to the film: Tinyurl.com/VFHL-March2024
Watch the Trailer: Tinyurl.com/VFHL-March2024Trailer
How this will work:
1 – Register here for the Voices from the Holy Land Online Film Salon:
Tinyurl.com/VFHL-March2024
2 – Once you register, you will get a confirmation email from Zoom with a link to the meeting and a link with to watch the film. (Save this confirmation letter as the meeting link is unique to your email and you must have this to participate.)
3 – Watch the film at your convenience before the event. Then join us with your thoughts and questions for our speakers at the Q&A Discussion on Sunday March 17, 2024 at 3 pm ET/ 12 noon PT.
Please share this announcement with your friends, family, and community. Download the event flyer and post it to your social media.
Download the event flyer here. (Download the jpg version here)
Download information about the Panelists and moderator here. (Download the jpg version here)
Don’t forget to watch recordings of previous Online Film Salon recordings in their entirety here, including for the January 21, 2023 Online Film Salon on Israelism. An article in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs on the December Salon can be found here. Also read an article on the November 2023 Salon on Marketing the Occupation – Part Two: Media and the Palestine Problem in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. Here is an article on the July Salon on My Tree inMondoweiss here.
The March 2024 VFHL Online Film Salon is co-sponsored by
Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine
Progressive Workers Union – Palestine Solidarity Group
