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Join our Third session of the Pedagogic Series “Teaching Palestine Today.”This session addresses Zionism, curated from our speakers’ responses to the question “What have we learned about Zioinism in the past year+?”. Featuring 

Our project, titled "Settling Shadows: Cartographic Analysis of Settler Colonialism in the West Bank," is part of a larger research initiative on border geographies. It explores the dynamics of Israeli settler colonialism by analyzing land use and environmental transformations i..

This is the second book we have edited together, and the third that Alaa and Tim have edited together. This project continues our work to understand power, domination, and resistance in Palestine. 

Most of the available literature on climate and energy in North Africa and the Arab region is produced by international neoliberal institutions. Their gaze is biased and imbued with orientalist tropes which maintain and reinforce old colonial relations, even wh..

A lot of the writing on climate change, the ecological crisis, and the energy transition in North Africa and the Arab region is dominated by international neoliberal institutions. Their analyses are biased and leave out questions of class, race, gender, justice..

“Memory is ephemeral,” Italian author Natalia Ginzburg writes in the preface to her novel Family Lexicon, a mot that inspired this article. "Because books based on reality are often only faint glimpses and fragments of what we have seen and heard," Ginzburg adds. There are no whole stor..

Despite a major potential to develop solar power and an ambitious program of renewable energy production (RE) by 2030, Algeria has been struggling for a decade to launch its green energy transition. Neither the depression of crude oil prices from 2014 to 2020 nor the strong dependence of the nat..

The Cross CUNY Working Group Against Racism and Colonialism is proud to present a two-panel symposium, Reckoning with Colonialism: Anti-Racist Struggle at CUNY & Beyond. A distinguished group of scholar-activists, including Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Noura Erakat, Johanna Fernández, and Alexandra..

The materials presented here contextualize current events in Palestine, offering analyses and histories of expulsion, occupation, settler colonialism, forced evictions, home demolitions, and annexation—situating the current struggle as part of the ongoing Nakba of 1948 and in rel..

There is a common belief that immigrants must submit to the social and cultural norms of the receiving country, and while it is riddled with exclusive and discriminatory measures and reinforces a nationalist agenda, it nevertheless has become one of the foundations of the practice and understand..

This is the third episode of the Environment in Context podcast. In it, Malihe Rezazan interviews Wael Tarabieh and Muna Dajani on the Israeli wind farms in the occupied Golan Heights.

Date: Friday 24^th of January 2020. Location: Sultan Al Atrash’s square in Majdal Shams, the ‘capital’ of the 5 remaining Syrian villages in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights (oSGH). Thousands of Jawlanis (Arabic for people of the Golan Heights) fill up the square; young and old, relig..

We are far from comprehending the full scale of potential harm to people’s lives and the economy due to the COVID-19 outbreak. In the complicated reality of Palestine/Israel, where the outbreak is just beginning, it requires a deeper analysis. We know from history that the poor and oppressed bea..

In 2016, I worked on a collaborative photography exhibit titled 2Gether – Portraits of Duos in Harlem and the Bronx

This article has been in the works for few years. My interest in thinking about the making of Israel’s citizenship regime was born out of my dissertation research on ’48 Palestinians (also known as Palestinian citizens of Israel). While reading the literature o..

The Trump administration has announced it no longer views Israel settlements in the occupied West Bank to be a violation of international law, in another blow to possible Israel-Palestine peace negotiations.

The houses on Rothschild Street, where I live, line up like a column of soldiers. Since I was born, Tel Aviv’s houses have been washed up in the city’s whiteness, or vice versa. There are things that are born all at once. A building is memory. Cities and places without old buildings have no memo..

In his recent lecture series, The Great Derangement, the novelist of the Indian Ocean world, Amitav Ghosh, asks his fellow artists and scholars to join him in considering our present intellectual production from the perspective of a future reader: 

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In recent years, much proverbial ink has been spilled debating whether or not Israel can be accurately labeled a settler-colonial state. Numerous studies on the early years of the Zionist movement leave little doubt about Israel’s settler-colonial origins, while recent works on Israel’s treatmen..

Since the 1990s, official silences in France surrounding the Algerian War for Independence (1954–1962) have increasingly been lifted, and sensitive archival collections have been brought to light by historians such as Benjamin Stora and Raphaëlle Branche. Yet given the ensuing “memory wars” tha..

In early January – the New Orleans City Council passed a resolution imposing a human rights screen to prevent municipal investments in initiatives that make the city complicit in human rights abuses. That resolution included projects that enhance Israel’s apartheid regime.

This talk took place in November of 2017, and it was meant to introduce Minawi's colleagues to his current research project. His goal for the talk was to present a trajectory for his research as it morphed and developed over the past two years, from the first book to the current project. Even th..

Please join us for a series of films and discussions on grassroots struggles for land, dignity, the means of subsistence, and self-determination in Brazil, Morocco, Tunisia, Haiti and the U.S.