Transnational Times Podcast Host Noura Erakat Interviews Dr. Khury Petersen-Smith: U.S. Militarism, Solidarity, and Resistance (10 April)

Transnational Times Podcast Host Noura Erakat Interviews Dr. Khury Petersen-Smith: U.S. Militarism, Solidarity, and Resistance (10 April)

Transnational Times Podcast Host Noura Erakat Interviews Dr. Khury Petersen-Smith: U.S. Militarism, Solidarity, and Resistance (10 April)

By : Jadaliyya Reports

Transnational Times Podcast
Episode 3
 

U.S. Militarism, Solidarity, and Resistance

A Conversation with Khury Petersen-Smith

Hosted by Noura Erakat


Monday, 10 April 2022
2:00 PM EST


Dr. Khury Petersen-Smith is the Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at Institute for Policy Studies.

This conversation between Jadaliyya co-editor Noura Erakat and Dr. Khury Petersen-Smith will cover a broad range of topics beginning with how the Biden administration dramatically increased the US military budget and how US Congress exceeded the administration’s request. What does this ballooning budget indicate about U.S. militarism abroad and what are its domestic implications? In this episode, Petersen-Smith will touch on protests in Iran, the war in Ukraine, Black Palestinian Solidarity, policy solutions for refugees seeking asylum, and what the progressive left must do in order to organize to win. 

Guest


Dr. Khury Petersen-Smith
is the Michael Ratner  Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies.
He researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration. Khury graduated from the Clark University Graduate School of Geography in Massachusetts, after completing a dissertation that focused on militarization and sovereignty. He is one of the co-authors and organizers of the 2015 Black Solidarity with Palestine statement, which was signed by over 1,100 Black activists, artists, and scholars. 

Host


Noura Erakat
 is a human rights attorney, Associate Professor of Africana Studies  and the Program of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She recently completed non-resident fellowship of the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School. Noura is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019), which received the Palestine Book Award and the Bronze Medal for the Independent Publishers Book Award in Current Events/Foreign Affairs. She is co-founding editor of Jadaliyya and editorial board member of the Journal of Palestine Studies as well as Human Geography. She is a co-founding board member of the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival. She has served as Legal Counsel for a Congressional Subcommittee in the US House of Representatives, as Legal Advocate for the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee and Residency Rights, and as national organizer of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. Noura has also produced video documentaries, including "Gaza In Context" and "Black Palestinian Solidarity.” Her writings have appeared in The Washington PostThe New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of BooksThe Nation, and Al Jazeera. She is a frequent commentator on CBS News, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, Fox News, the BBC, and NPR, among others. 

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Katty Alhayek


Dr. Katty Alhayek is an Assistant Professor in the School of Professional Communication at Ryerson University (Renaming in process) in Toronto, Canada. Alhayek’s research centers around themes of marginality, media, audiences, gender, intersectionality, and displacement in a transnational context. Alhayek completed her Ph.D. in Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States of America with a graduate certificate in Advanced Feminist Studies. Her publications include articles in the International Journal of Communication; Feminist Media Studies; Gender, Technology and Development; Syria Studies; and Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies.

د. كاتي الحايك: أستاذة مساعدة في مجال الإعلام المهني ودراسات الجماهير الرقمية في جامعة رايرسون في مدينة تورنتو بكندا. حصلت الحايك على درجة الدكتوراة في الإعلام من جامعة ماساتشوستس في أمهيرست (الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية) ودرجة ماجستير في الإعلام والتنمية من جامعة أوهايو (الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية) وإجازة في الإعلام من جامعة دمشق (سوريا). لدى الحايك خبرة عمل تتجاوز العشر سنوات مع العديد من المنظمات والجامعات الدولية في مجال الإعلام والنسوية وحقوق الإنسان. 

 

Dr. Sahar Khamis


Dr. Sahar Khamis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Women’s Studies and the Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is an expert on Arab and Muslim media, and the former Head of the Mass Communication Department at Qatar University. Dr. Khamis holds a Ph.D. in Mass Media and Cultural Studies from the University of Manchester in England. She is a former Mellon Islamic Studies Initiative Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago. She is the co-author of the books: Islam Dot Com: Contemporary Islamic Discourses in Cyberspace (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and Egyptian Revolution 2.0: Political Blogging, Civic Engagement and Citizen Journalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). She is the co-editor of the book: Arab Women’s Activism and Socio-Political Transformation: Unfinished Gendered Revolutions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

She authored and co-authored numerous book chapters, journal articles and conference papers, regionally and internationally, in both English and Arabic. She is the recipient of a number of prestigious academic and professional awards and a member of the editorial boards of several journals in the field of communication, in general, and the field of Arab and Muslim media, in particular. Dr. Khamis is a media commentator and analyst, a public speaker, a radio host, and a former human rights commissioner.

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