Teach-In: The War on Lebanon and Palestine
November 21, 2024
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Location
2233 ETSMW (Education, Theater, Music, and Social Work Building)
Address
1040 W Harrison St, Chicago, IL 60607
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Global Middle East Studies (GMES) and the Arab American Cultural Center (ArabAmCC) present a
Teach-In: The War on Lebanon and Palestine
with
Dr. Maya Mikdashi (Rutgers University), Dr. Munira Khayyat (New York University-Abu Dhabi), and Dr. Zeina Zaatari (UIC)
Do you want to understand the recent attacks on Lebanon? Do you want to learn about how Lebanon and Palestine are related? DO you want to hear about how our lives in the US are wrapped up in the lives of people on the ground in Lebanon and Palestine today?
Join us for a teach-in on the historical context of the current war on Lebanon and the long-standing links between freedom struggles in Lebanon, Palestine, and the Arab region more broadly.
Maya Mikdashi is an Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author of the award-winning book, Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism and the State in Lebanon (SUP, 2022). Maya sits on the editorial collectives of the Journal of Palestine Studies and Social Text, and is a co-founding editor of Jadaliyya.
Munira Khayyat is an anthropologist whose research revolves around life in war, intimate genealogies of empire, and theory from the South. Her first book, A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon (University of California Press 2022) examines resistant ecologies in a world of perennial warfare. Drawing on long-term fieldwork in frontline villages along Lebanon’s southern border with Israel, she examines war not only as a place of death and destruction, but also necessarily, as an environment of living.
Zeina Zaatari is the Director of the Arab American Cultural Center at UIC. For over 25 years Zeina Zaatari, a feminist from South Lebanon, has worked on gender and racial justice in Arab and Arab American communities both within academic and non-profit spaces in programming and producing knowledge. Zeina earned her PhD in Cultural Anthropology with an emphasis in Feminist Theory from the University of California at Davis, with dissertation fieldwork focusing on women’s groups and activists in South Lebanon. Zeina joined the ArabAmCC in January 2019 and is also adjunct Faculty in the department of Anthropology and Faculty Fellow in the Honors College. Her most recent publications include a co-edited book with Suad Joseph and Lena Meari titled The Politics of Engaged Gender Research in the Arab Region: Feminist Fieldwork and Knowledge Production (I.B.Tauris, 2022) and a co-edited book with Suad Joseph titled Routledge Handbook of Women in the Middle East (2023).
Date posted
Nov 8, 2024
Date updated
Nov 13, 2024