Gaza On My Mind
غزّة علي بالي
A Freeform Engagement with All Things Gaza
Featuring:
Hind Khoudary
Laila Al-Arian
Afeef Assouli
Moderators:
Jenan Matari
Bassam Haddad
Adel Iskandar
Thursday, 16 May 2024
2:00 PM EST | 7:00 PM London | 9:00 PM Gaza
This Thursday! Heroic Journalism from Gaza, and Media Representation in the “West!” Join our second episode of Gaza On My Mind \ غزّة على بالي, as we host Hind Khoudary, reporting from ground zero in Gaza, Laila Al-Arian from Washington DC, and Afeef Nessouli from Lebanon. Hosted by Jenan Matari, Bassam Haddad and guest moderator Adel Iskandar.
Featuring
Jenan Matari (Moderator) is a 2x award-winning Palestinian storyteller and Producer. She is so busy, we are still waiting for the rest of her bio.
Bassam Haddad (Moderator) is Founding Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program and Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford University Press, 2011) and co-editor of A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2021). Bassam is Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine and Executive Director of the Arab Studies Institute. He serves as Founding Editor of the Arab Studies Journal and the Knowledge Production Project. He is co-producer/director of the award-winning documentary film, About Baghdad, and director of the acclaimed series Arabs and Terrorism. Bassam is Executive Producer of Status Podcast Channel and Director of the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI). He received MESA's Jere L. Bacharach Service Award in 2017 for his service to the profession. Currently, Bassam is working on his second Syria book titled Understanding The Syrian Tragedy: Regime, Opposition, Outsiders (forthcoming, Stanford University Press).
Adel Iskandar (Moderator) is an Assistant Professor of Global Communication at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. He is the author, coauthor, and editor of several works including Egypt In Flux: Essays on an Unfinished Revolution (AUCP/OUP), Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism (Basic Books), Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation (University of California Press), and Mediating the Arab Uprisings(Tadween Publishing). Iskandar`s work deals with media, identity and politics and has lectured extensively on these topics at universities worldwide. His forthcoming publication is the coedited volume Media Evolution on the Eve of the Arab Spring (Palgrave Macmillan). Iskandar taught for several years at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and the Communication, Culture, and Technology program at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He is a co-editor of Jadaliyya.