Wednesday, October 19, 2022. 1:00 PM ET
Palestinians in Gaza have lived under a brutal blockade for sixteen years, isolated from the rest of Palestine and the world. This distinctive anthology imagines the future of Gaza while reaffirming the critical role of Gaza in Palestinian identity, history, and the struggle for liberation.
This event is in partnership with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC).
Asmaa Abu Mezied is an economic development and social inclusion specialist working to address issues of gender, development, and climate change in the agriculture sector. Her research interests focus on the care economy, women’s collectives organizing in economic sectors, the private sector’s social accountability, and the intersection of Palestinian political, agricultural, and environmental identities.
Yousef M. Aljamal is an author, journalist, and translator. He has published widely and is the co-translator of Prisoners Diaries: Palestinian Voices from the Israeli Gulag (2013), the translator of Dreaming of Freedom: Palestinian Child Prisoners Speak (2016), and a translator/coauthor of A Shared Struggle: Stories of Palestinian and Irish Hunger Strikers (2021). He is also a Ph.D. candidate at the Middle East Institute at Sakarya University, Turkey.
Jehad Abusalim is a scholar, writer, and public speaker completing his Ph.D. in the History and Hebrew and Judaic Studies joint program at New York University. He has worked with AFSC since 2018. He contributed to other anthologies including Gaza as Metaphor (Hurst Publishers, 2016) and Palestine: A Socialist Introduction (Haymarket Books, 2020).
