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Gaza in Context: A Collaborative Teach-In Series 鈥� Session 23

Present-Absent: Conditional Citizens with Diana Buttu

Featuring:
Dianna Buttu

Moderator:
Bassam Haddad

15 Feruary 2024
1:00 PM EST | 8:00 PM Palestine

Teach-In Session 19

Since the start of Israel鈥檚 war on Gaza, Palestinians in Israel have faced an increasing number of measures aimed at silencing them, with calls to have their citizenship revoked. In this series, we will examine what 鈥渃itizenship鈥� means and discuss some of the repressive measures.This second installment features Diana Buttu, a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and analyst based in Haifa and Communications Director to the Institute for Middle East Understanding.

Gaza in Context Collaborative Teach-In Series

We are together experiencing a catastrophic unfolding of history as Gaza endures 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 dehumanize Palestinians as the culprits, despite a context of structural subjugation and Apartheid, now 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

Diana Buttu is a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and analyst based in Haifa and Communications Director to the Institute for Middle East Understanding. Diana previously worked as a legal advisor the Palestinian negotiating team. Diana was one of the lawyers who challenged the legality of Israel鈥檚 apartheid wall before the International Court of Justice. She is a frequent commentator and writer on Palestine, with articles appearing in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Guardian, Foreign Policy as well as in other major US papers. She holds degrees from the University of Toronto, Queen鈥檚 University, Kellogg Northwestern and Stanford Law School. Ms. Buttu has held fellowships at Stanford and Harvard.

Bassam Haddad (Moderator) 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).