Israel

2024 Apr 30

A Looming Famine: Starvation in Gaza

11:00am to 12:30pm

Location: 

Online; registration below

Join the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights on Tuesday April 30 at 11am EST for a conversation about the starvation of civilians in the Gaza Strip. According to the Human Rights Watch, Israeli forces are deliberately blocking the delivery of water, food, and fuel, and using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in Gaza which is a war crime according to international law.

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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 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

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

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2024 Feb 08

Israel’s Third Transformation: Electoral Politics and the Future of the State

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Derek Penslar, William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Harvard University, and

Shaul Magid, Dartmouth College Distinguished Fellow in Jewish Studies and Visiting Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, Harvard Divinity School

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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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2023 Oct 30

Israel-Hamas War? Tackling the Root Causes

12:15pm to 1:15pm

Location: 

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

Israel-Hamas War? Tackling the Root Causes

with

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (occupied Palestinian territories)
Moderator: Chris Williams, Clinical Instructor, HLS

Registration required: https://bit.ly/3S8NZdn
 
Description: The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, Ms. Francesca Albanese, will be discussing the current situation in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory and the international legal implications of the events that unfolded since October 7.... Read more about Israel-Hamas War? Tackling the Root Causes

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MESA Board Statement on Palestine and Israel

October 17, 2023

The Executive Committee of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies endorses the October 16, 2023, statement by the Board of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) condemning the killing of all civilians in Palestine and Israel. The statement asserts that there is no military solution to the conflict and supports "a political solution that offers safety, dignity, and equal rights for Palestinians and Israelis." It also called on universities to "affirmatively assert and protect the right to academic freedom and freedom of speech on their campuses" amidst heightened incidents of violence...

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