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Gaza in Context: A Collaborative Teach-In Series 鈥� Session 12

COLONIAL NARRATIVES
BETWEEN MYTHS AND REALITIES (PART 2)

Featuring: 

RASHID KHALIDI

Moderator:

BASSAM HADDAD

Thursday, 14 December 2023
12:30 AM PST | 3:30 PM EST | 8:30 PM London | 10:30 PM Palestine

Teach-In Session 12

This particular teach-in series examines recurring colonial myths in some detail, while simultaneously juxtaposing them against actual statements made by original founders, the historical record, and enduring policies/practices of the state of Israel. From founding myths to the demographic 鈥減roblem,鈥� settlements, propensity for making/rejecting peace, and beyond, these conversations document the gap between myths and realities of Israel鈥檚 decades-long occupation and dispossession of Palestinians.

• Narratives on Zionist Displacement/Replacement of Palestinians
• Narratives on Immigration and Population/Demographics
• Narratives on the Founding of Israel 
• Narratives on Arab Jews in Arab Countries 

Gaza in Context Collaborative Teach-In Series

We are together experiencing a catastrophic unfolding of history as Gaza awaits a massive invasion of potentially genocidal proportions. This follows an incessant bombardment of a population increasingly bereft of the necessities of living in response to the Hamas attack in Israel on October 7. The context within which this takes place includes a well-coordinated campaign of misinformation and the unearthing of a multitude of essentialist and reductionist discursive tropes that depict Palestinians as the culprits, despite a context of structural subjugation and Apartheid, a matter of consensus in the human rights movement.

The co-organizers below are convening weekly teach-ins and conversations on a host of issues that introduce our common university communities, educators, researchers, and students to the history and present of Gaza, in context.

Co-Organizers: Arab Studies Institute, Georgetown University鈥檚 Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, George Mason University鈥檚 Middle East and Islamic Studies Program, Rutgers Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Birzeit University Museum, Harvard鈥檚 Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Brown University鈥檚 Center for Middle East Studies, University of Chicago鈥檚 Center for Contemporary Theory, Brown University鈥檚 New Directions in Palestinian Studies, Georgetown University鈥檚 Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, 天美mv天美鈥檚 Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies, Georgetown University-Qatar, American University of Cairo鈥檚 Alternative Policy Studies, Middle East Studies Association鈥檚 Global Academy, University of Chicago鈥檚 Center for Middle Eastern Studies, CUNY鈥檚 Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center, University of Illinois Chicago鈥檚 Arab american cultural Center, George Mason University鈥檚 AbuSulayman鈥檚 Center for Global Islamic Studies, University of Illinois Chicago鈥檚 Critical Middle East Studies Working Group, George Washington University鈥檚 Institute for Middle East Studies, Columbia University鈥檚 Center for Palestine Studies, New York University鈥檚 Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies

Featuring

Rashid Khalidi is Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. He received his BA from Yale in 1970, and his D.Phil. from Oxford in 1974. He is editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies, and was President of the Middle East Studies Association, and an advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace negotiations from October 1991 until June 1993. He is author of: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917- 2017 (2020); Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. has Undermined Peace in the Middle East (2013); Sowing Crisis: American Dominance and the Cold War in the Middle East (2009);The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (2006); Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East (2004); Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (1996); Under Siege: PLO Decision-Making During the 1982 War (1986); British Policy Towards Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914 (1980); and co-editor of Palestine and the Gulf (1982) and The Origins of Arab Nationalism (1991), and The Other Jerusalem: Rethinking the History of the Sacred City (2020).

Bassam Haddad is Founding Director of the  and Associate Professor at the  at George Mason University. He is the author of  (Stanford University Press, 2011) and co-editor of  (Stanford University Press, 2021). Bassam is Co-Founder/Editor of  Ezine and Executive Director of the . He serves as Founding Editor of the  and the . He is co-producer/director of the award-winning documentary film, , and director of the acclaimed series . Bassam serves on the Board of the  and is Executive Producer of  Audio Magazine and Director of the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (). He received MESA's  in 2017 for his service to the profession. Currently, Bassam is working on his second Syria book titled Understanding the Syrian Calamity: Regime, Opposition, Outsiders (forthcoming, Stanford University Press).