Thursday, July 7th 2022
12:00 PM Eastern Time
Rabab Abdulhadi (PhD) is the founding Director and Senior scholar of Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies Program, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and affiliated faculty in Sexualities Studies at San Francisco State University. Before joining SFSU, she served as the first Director of the Center for Arab American Studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. A co-founding Editorial Board member of Islamophobia Studies Journal, she has published over 80 articles and book chapters in seven languages, in academic, print and social media. She is lead editor of several anthologies.
Dr. Haidar Eid Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Postmodern Literature at Gaza’s al-Aqsa University in Palestine. He has published papers on cultural studies and literature in a number of journals and books. He has also written widely on the Arab-Israeli conflict. He is a policy advisor with Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network and on the advisory board of The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. His books are “Worlding (Post)modernism: Interpretive Possibilities of Critical Theory” and “Countering the Nakba: One State for All.”
Ismail Khalidi Born in Beirut to Palestinian parents and raised in Chicago, Ismail Khalidi is a playwright, screenwriter and director. Khalidi’s plays include Truth Serum Blues (Pangea World Theater ‘05), Tennis in Nablus (Alliance Theatre ‘10), Foot (Teatro Amal ‘16), Sabra Falling(Pangea ‘17), and Dead Are My People (Noor Theatre ’18). He co-adapted two novels for the stage with Naomi Wallace; Ghassan Kanafani’s Returning to Haifa (Finborough Theatre ‘18) and Sinan Antoon’s The Corpse Washer (Actors Theatre of Louisville ‘19). Khalidi’s work has been published in numerous anthologies, and he co-edited “Inside/Outside: Six Plays from Palestine and the Diaspora” (TCG ‘15). His writing has been featured in American Theatre Magazine, The Kenyon Review, The Nation, Mizna, Guernica, Al Jazeera, The Dramatist and ReMezcla. Khalidi holds an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and is currently a Directing Fellow at Pangea World Theater.
In case you missed it, you can access the recorded event below
