Mini Film Festival (Part 2)

"The Encampments"

Tuesday, 13 May 2025 | 1:0..

 Kids Under Fire (2025)

Speakers:

Holding an event on Palestine in the era of Genocide and Teslocracy has become slightly complicated, even as Nazi salutes are bravely defended by the ADL. The stenc..

In this extended conversation, Bassam Haddad @4bassam hosts Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges for a bold discussion on changes and continuities in the political landscape of the United States, its policies in the Middle East, and its role in Israel’s genocide in Gaz..

Join a conversation between Laila el-Haddad and Michael Fakhri. Leila el-Haddad is a renowned journalist and writer and co-author of critically acclaimed The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey (2013). She brings with her a wealth of experience and knowledge about Palestinian f..

Join us on Monday, November 4 for the premiere and discussion of

In this panel six professors from the Gaza Strip discuss their efforts to sustain higher education in the face of genocide and scholasticide. Our guests will also address avenues for rebuilding higher education in Gaza as well as the sorts of contributions others can make.

International journalists are barred from entering Gaza. Coverage persists solely through Palestinian Journalists, mostly freelancers, despite the grave risk of losing all their media equipment, and/or their lives. ARIJ (Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism) stepped in to replace equipmen..

Dr. Halim Barakat was a celebrated novelist, a prolific scholar, and a public intellectual committed to social justice, equality, and freedom in the Arab World— especially in his beloved Syria and Lebanon. His novels boldly engaged the biggest public debates, as well as the most deeply personal ..

The recent wildfires in Maui have left historic Hawaiian communities devastated, with 99 confirmed dead, one thousand missing people and thousands more displaced from their homes and lands. As Kanaka Maoli have taught us, these wildfires are not “natural,” but are settler colonial disasters with..

From the microscopic to the regional, the local to the imperial, Jennifer L. Derr’s book, The Lived Nile: Environment, disease, and material colonial economy in Egypt, places the environment at the center of questions about politics, knowledge,..

On the US publication of Alaa Abd el-Fattah's You Have Not Yet Been Defeated (Seven Stories Press), please join us for a conversation with Dr. Laila Soueif (Cairo University) and Nora Younis (al-Manassa) about Alaa, his case, and incarceration in Egypt.

Join us for a conversation with scholar, writer, and Jadaliyya co-editor Sinan Antoon where he will trace formative literary and intellectual influences and the confluence of politics and poetics in his scholarly work, novels, poetry, and essays. Antoon will also read excerpts from his most rece..

War silences academic freedom. Scholars are being uprooted once again as the war in Ukraine escalates. New University in Exile Consortium fellow scholars from Ukraine, Syria, and Manipur, India will reflect on the irreversible damage caused by war and conflict on academic freedom both ..

Artists participating in the Geographies of the Future exhibit contemplate futurity and the stakes of virtual collaboration in a live discussion. Featuring Ala Younis, Majd al-Shihabi and Ahmad Barclay of Palestine Open Maps, Ali Yass and Ahmed Isamaldin, Areej Huniti and Eliza Goldox, and Barış..

How has the social movement in Syria come to be so dramatically and so quickly transformed from, first, peaceful protests centred around popular demands for political reforms, to the broadly national movement calling for ‘Revolution for all Syrians’, and then to the ongoing bloody civil war with..

We are pleased to announce the launch of The Bisan Lecture Series (BLS) in concert with Scientists for Palestine and the Bisan Center for Research and Development. It will ..

In the midst of the Lebanese ongoing financial, social and political crises, Lebanon will hold potentially its 2022 parliamentary elections next May. The legislative elections fuel the hope for change to save the country from its profound economic recession and political failure. This panel aims..

The 6.6 million internally displaced persons (IDP) in Syria represent the largest internally displaced population in the world. Women face distinct challenges relating to issues such as sexual harassment and limitations on their freedom of movement. Many women had a high degree of interest..

Prisoner of the Infidels is the first-person account of a young Ottoman soldier who, taken prisoner a few years after the failed siege of Vienna in 1683, spent more than a decade as an enslaved captive in Christian Europe.