Against Erasure: Preserving Palestinian Sign Language
March 4, 2025
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Against Erasure: Preserving Palestinian Sign Language
A Palestinian Sign Language Workshop
Join the UIC Arab American Cultural Center, the UIC Disability Cultural Center, and the Olive Guardians for a workshop to learn basic words and phrases in Palestinian Sign Language, the native sign language used by the Palestinian deaf community! Follow along with lessons designed by deaf Palestinians from Gaza, Nesma Kreyyem and Noor Mohammed, and presented by Grace Lester, a deaf Chicago-based activist. Learn about language preservation in the midst of genocide and cultural erasure, and how access and resistance are necessarily intertwined.
Hybrid Event: in Person at 101 Taft Hall (ArabAmCC) and on zoom: Meeting Registration - Zoom
access info: asl interpreters + autocaptions provided. please wear a mask! contact dcc@uic.edu with any access requests
Date posted
Feb 20, 2025
Date updated
Feb 20, 2025