WE ARE STILL HERE
Voices of Palestinian Students
Their Daily Lives, Hopes, and Dreams...
Students
Reem Al-Astal
Maria Alhawajri
Heba Abuhussein
Obay Jouda
Mariam Malaka
Hada Mohammad Hemaid
Hosted by Bassam Haddad
Moderated by Anisa Haddadi and Zahid Praniol
Monday, September 14, 2026
1 pm EST | 8 pm Gaza
Join us for this conversation with (and a series of testimonies by) students from/in Gaza, addressing their stories as they continue to write, study, document, and organize intellectually while living through genocide, siege, forced displacement, and the systematic destruction of educational and cultural life in Gaza. All of the student speakers are authors in the co-editors of We are Still Here by Jacob Norris and Zahid Pranjol. The conversations are co-moderated by Anisa Haddadi and Zahid Praniol.
This event is the most recent installment of Jadaliyya's Gaza On My Mind - غزة على بالي series, organized by the Gaza in Context Project.
Gaza in Context Collaborative Teach-In Series
We are together experiencing a catastrophic unfolding of history as Gaza endures a massive invasion of genocidal proportions. This accompanies 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 dehumanize Palestinians as the culprits, despite a context of structural subjugation and Apartheid, now 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.
