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The late Palestinian scholar, Edward Said, remarked that Palestinians had been denied permission to narrate their history and speak of the day-to-day experiences of life in the margins. Here, we reclaim that permission to narrate our own stories.
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On Panel I of the annual conference Dr. Randa Farah, Dr. Osamah Khalil, Max Blumenthal, and Dr. Elizabeth Campbell discuss the following topics: liquidating Right of Return, UNRWA, US and Israeli Policies .
Dr. Joseph Massad delivers the keynote address of the 2019 Palestine Center Annual Conference.
Palestine Center Brief No. 334 (November 19, 2019)
Palestinian-American poet and environmental scholar Sharif Elmusa, and activist artist Susan Smith present an intersectional multimedia event that includes readings of poetry of and about the refugee experience from different world-regions with an exhibition of recent artwork.
On a speaking tour in the US to address the incarceration of Palestinian children and the situation of Gaza, Yousef Aljamal sheds light on this serious subject. He is joined by activist Miko Peled.
“The only Jewish candidate in the Democratic presidential race stood in front of an audience of Jews in Washington, D.C., and suggested cutting U.S. aid to Israel. And they applauded him.”
Artist, calligrapher and jeweler Katie Miranda’s paintings explore moments of sumoud (steadfastness) and todamon (solidarity).
“‘$3.8 billion is a lot of money, and we cannot give it carte blanche,’ Sanders said, referring to the amount of military aid Washington provides Israel each year.”
The speakers of the 2019 Palestine Center Annual Conference provide their analyses of this critical moment. The keynote address is delivered by Dr. Joseph Massad, followed by two panels that respectively address issues of the Right of Return, UNRWA, US and Israeli Policies (Panel I); and Geopolitics, BDS, The Media & Palestine, and US Perspective on the Deal (Panel II). Please join us for an engaging event.
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