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From: The Palestine Center <info@thejerusalemfund.org>
Date: October 14, 2021 at 1:03:18 PM EDT
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Subject: 2021 Edward Said Memorial Lecture with Susan Abulhawa
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2021 Edward Said Memorial Lecture - Visualizing Israel's Global Arms Hustling with Susan Abulhawa | | | |  | Friday, October 22
1:00 - 2:30 PM Eastern Time | In this year's Edward Said Memorial Lecture, Susan Abulhawa will provide valuable insight into Israel's global arms trade and exports, and how this ties into Israeli settler colonialism and oppression of Palestinians. Susan Abulhawa is a novelist, poet, essayist, scientist, mother, and activist. Her debut novel Mornings in Jenin (Bloomsbury, 2010), translated into 30 languages, is considered a classic in Anglophile Palestinian literature. Its reach and sales has made abulhawa the most widely read Palestinian author. Her second novel, The Blue Between Sky and Water (Bloomsbury, 2015), was likewise an international bestseller. Her third novel, Against the Loveless World , was published by Simon & Schuster in August 2020. She is also the author of a poetry collection, My Voice Sought The Wind (Just World Books, 2013), contributor to several anthologies, political commentator, and frequent speaker. | | | | | | Israel's Collective Punishment of Palestinians | Budour Hassan is a Palestinian writer and legal researcher at the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center (JLAC). She will talk about Israeli measures of collective punishment including the policy of withholding Palestinian martyrs' bodies, punitive home demolitions, mass detentions, closures against neighborhoods and the spraying of entire residential areas with skunk water, and of course the blockade against the Gaza Strip. | | Click Here to Watch > | | | The Palestinian Nakba: From Ethnic Cleansing in 1948 to Apartheid in 2021 | Dr. Shafeeq Ghabra will discuss the history of the Nakba and what it means to Palestinians. During his presentation he will answer some major questions on the establishment of Israel, the forced ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population, stories about the land, and refugees. He will conclude with an analysis of the present situation in Palestine as a case of ongoing and deepening ethnic cleansing and apartheid. This event will be moderated by Said Arikat. | | Click Here to Watch > | | | 2021 Hisham Sharabi Memorial Symposium | Michael Arria, Omar Baddar, and Lamis Deek discuss their thoughts on how the new Biden administration will impact the future of Palestine, how Trump altered the right on the question of Israel, increasing support for Palestine among Democratic voters, and the current dynamics and politics on the ground in Palestine. Moderated by Said Arikat. | | Click Here to Watch > | | | | |
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