Lies, Deceit, and Criminality:

Israel & The United States Attack Iran (Part II)

Featuring:
Assal Rad
Sina Toossi
Negar Razavi
Mouin Rabbani
Naveed Mansouri
Bassam Haddad

Tuesday, June 24
2:00 PM ET

Click here to watch Part I: Israel's Aggression Against Iran

Gaza in Context: A Collaborative Teach-In Series

We are together experiencing a catastrophic unfolding of history as Gaza awaits a massive invasion of potentially genocidal proportions. This follows an incessant bombardment of a population increasingly bereft of the necessities of living in response to the Hamas attack in Israel on October 7. The context within which this takes place includes a well-coordinated campaign of misinformation and the unearthing of a multitude of essentialist and reductionist discursive tropes that depict Palestinians as the culprits, despite a context of structural subjugation and Apartheid, a matter of consensus in the human rights movement.

The co-organizers below are convening weekly teach-ins and conversations on a host of issues that introduce our common university communities, educators, researchers, and students to the history and present of Gaza, in context. 

Co-Organizers: Arab Studies Institute, Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, George Mason University’s Middle East and Islamic Studies Program, Rutgers Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Birzeit University Museum, Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Brown University’s Center for Middle East Studies, University of Chicago’s Center for Contemporary Theory, Brown University’s New Directions in Palestinian Studies, Georgetown University’s Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies, Georgetown University-Qatar, American University of Cairo’s Alternative Policy Studies, Middle East Studies Association’s Global Academy, University of Chicago’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, CUNY’s Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center, University of Illinois Chicago’s Arab american cultural Center, George Mason University’s AbuSulayman’s Center for Global Islamic Studies, University of Illinois Chicago’s Critical Middle East Studies Working Group, George Washington University’s Institute for Middle East Studies, Columbia University’s Center for Palestine Studies, New York University’s Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, Security in Context

Featuring

Assal Rad is a scholar of Middle East history. Her writing can be seen in Newsweek, The National Interest, The Independent, Foreign Policy and more. She is the author of The State of Resistance: Politics, Culture, and Identity in Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Follow Assal on X/Twitter: @AssalRad

Sina Toossi is a Senior Non-resident Fellow at the Center for International policy. His work focuses on producing research and analysis on U.S.-Iran relations, U.S. foreign policy towards the Middle East, and nuclear policy issues. His writings have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and USA Today, among other outlets.

Negar Razavi is an Associate Research Scholar at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University. Razavi is working on her first book on the role of policy experts in shaping U.S. security policies toward the Middle East. She is a Co-Editor of the Iran Page on Jadaliyya. 

Mouin Rabbani served as Principal Political Affairs Officer with the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Head of Middle East with the Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation, and Senior Middle East Analyst and Special Advisor on Israel-Palestine with the International Crisis Group. Rabbani is Co-Editor of Jadaliyya,

Naveed Mansoori will be a lecturer in Government at Smith College. His areas of research include political theory, Iranian Studies, and Middle East Studies. Mansoori is a co-editor of Jadaliyya's Iran Page. 

Bassam Haddad is Founding Director of the Middle East & Islamic Studies Program and Associate Professor at the Schar School at George Mason University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience. Bassam is Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya &  Executive Director of the Arab Studies Institute.