Palestinian Territories

2024 Apr 08

Book talk: "Stranger in My Own Land: Palestine, Israel and One Family's Story of Home"

1:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

On Zoom; registration info below

The HDS Religion, Conflict and Peace Initiative presents a book talk with

Fida Jiryis
Palestinian writer and editor

Moderator: Sara Roy, Associate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies

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2024 Mar 22

A Live Conversation with Motaz Azaiza, Palestinian Photojournalist

7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location: 

To be announced

Harvard Law School's Bell Collective for Critical Race Theory is hosting Palestinian journalist Motaz Azaiza in his first-ever live conversation in the United States.

He will be the keynote speaker for their 5th Annual conference entitled Censorship and Consciousness.

Check out the full conference and register for tickets now before they sell out: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/thebellcollective/censorship-consciousness-2024/... Read more about A Live Conversation with Motaz Azaiza, Palestinian Photojournalist

2024 Mar 21

Book talk: "Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba"

4:00pm to 5:15pm

Location: 

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The HDS Religion, Conflict and Peace Initiative presents a book talk with

Areej Sabbagh-Khoury
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Moderator: Nader Uthman, Senior Preceptor in Arabic, Director of the Modern Languages Programs, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

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2024 Mar 06

Palestinian Women in Gaza: War, Health, and Feminist Solidarity

11:00am to 12:30pm

Location: 

Online webinar; see registration details below

In commemoration of International Women’s Day, the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights invites you to join a webinar dedicated to the Palestinian women in Gaza. The webinar will bring together three feminist scholar-activists in conversation about Gaza, Palestinian women’s health, and resistance to genocide.

Moderator: Sawsan Abdulrahim, PhD, MPH, Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut; FXB Palestine Program Health & Human Rights Fellow

Speakers:
Zahra Ali, PhD, Asst Professor, Rutgers University;
Lila Sharif,
PhD, Asst Professor, Arizona State University;
Sara Ihmoud,
PhD, Asst Professor, College of the Holy Cross

Register here in advance: hsph.me/PPHHR-Mar2024... Read more about Palestinian Women in Gaza: War, Health, and Feminist Solidarity

2024 Feb 07

The South Africa ICJ Genocide Case Against Israel: Implications for Palestinian Health

11:00am to 12:30pm

Location: 

Online webinar; see below for registration link

The Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights, FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University presents a webinar panel discussion featuring:

Moderator: A. Kayum Ahmed, PhD, MSt, LLM, LLB, Assistant Professor, Columbia University; FXB Visiting Scientist,

Timothy Fish-Hodgson, LLM, MSc, Legal Advisor, International Commission of Justice,

Katherine Iliopoulos, LLM, Legal Adviser for Libya & Palestine, International Commission of Jurists,

Tlaleng Mofokeng, MBChB, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to health, and

Rania Muhared, Irish Research Council and Hardiman PhD Scholar

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Derek Penslar

Derek Penslar

William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History

Derek Penslar was educated at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. He taught at Indiana University between 1987 and 1998,...

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2024 Jan 30

Gaza: A Colonial War?

6:00pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

Science Center Hall B, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Rashid Khalidi
Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University

Moderated by: Kirsten Weld, Professor of History, Harvard University

**Open to Harvard ID holders only**... Read more about Gaza: A Colonial War?

2024 Mar 05

Book talk: "The United Nations and the Question of Palestine"

12:15pm to 1:15pm

Location: 

Wasserstein 1019, Harvard Law School

The Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School presents

Ardi Imseis
Assistant Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, Canada

Join us as Professor Ardi Imseis discusses his new book on Palestine at the United Nations. Based on primary archival materials and the author’s first-hand experience as a UN Official in Palestine for over a decade,... Read more about Book talk: "The United Nations and the Question of Palestine"

2023 Dec 11

A Conversation with Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sitta

11:00am to 12:30pm

Location: 

Online webinar; registration information below

Join the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights, a partnership program between the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights and the Institute of Community and Public Health at Birzeit University, in conversation with

Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah

Register in advance here: https://harvard.zoom....

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Amid Violence in the Middle East, Palestinian American Poet Shares Work at Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies

October 25, 2023

Lisa Suhair Majaj — an author and scholar of Arab American Literature — shared a collection of her poems at a Tuesday event at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Majaj, who was born in America and grew up in Jordan, shared 17 of her poems chronicling her life as a Palestinian American. Speaking to an audience of more than 30 people, she acknowledged the difficulty of the subject matter amidst the violence unfolding in Israel and Palestine....

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