Bassam Haddad is 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).
Palestine As a Universal Cause:
Israel’s Genocide in Gaza and Its Reverberations in France
Featuring
Alain Gresh
In Conversation with
Bassam Haddad
Thursday, 27 June 2024
1:00 PM EST | 8:00 pm Palestine
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In this sit-down interview in Paris, Alain Gresh discusses Israel’s Genocide in Gaza and its reverberations in Europe, with a focus on France and its domestic politics. He also addresses Islamophobia, accusations of Antisemitism, protests, censorship, the Left, and the history of the French position in relation to Israel-Palestine. Gresh also discusses his new book 7 octobre.: Palestine, un peuple qui ne veut pas mourir (2024).
Featuring
Alain Gresh is Publication Director of Orient XXI. A specialist in the Near East, he is the author of several books, including De quoi la Palestine est-elle le nom ?, Les Liens qui libèrent, 2010 and et Un chant d’amour. Israël-Palestine, une histoire française, with Hélène Aldeguer, éditions La Découverte, updated in 2023 by Liberalize. Among his latest books that have been translated in Arabic are الإسلام والجمهورية والعالم (Dar al Saqi: Beirut) and علام يطلق اسم فلسطين ؟ (الدوحة : المركز العربي للأبحاث ودراسة السياسات، 2012. He worked for Le Monde Diplomatique until 2015 and was his editor in chief from 1995 to 2005. Gresh is the author of the recent book, 7 octobre.: Palestine, un peuple qui ne veut pas mourir (2024).