Gaza in Context: A Collaborative Teach-In Series — Gaza in History (Episode 2)

Episode 2: Gaza in History


Featuring: Beshara Doumani, Ilana Feldman  
Moderated by: Sherene Seikaly


26 October 2023
12:00-1:30 PM EST | 7:00 PM Palestine

Watch the livestream of this event here.

About This Event

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 existence on which most Human Rights organizations have established consensus. 

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. 

Join us for the second teach-in installment for Gaza in Context, where our speakers, Beshara Doumani and Ilana Feldman, will explore the broader history of Gaza, and how Gaza fits into the Question of Palestine in the past and the present.

Co-Sponsors: 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, 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 Doha, American University of Cairo’s Alternative Policy Studies, Middle East Studies’ Global Academy

October 26, 2023

9:00 AM

on Zoom

Sponsors

 
  • 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
  • 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 Univeristy, Doha
  • American University of Cairo’s Alternative Policy Studies
  • Middle East Studies’ Global Academy