Rosemarie Said Zahlan Gulf-Palestine Mini Lecture Series | Palestine in the Gulf: Intertwined Pasts and Possible Futures
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Gulf-Palestine relations are often viewed through official or humanitarian channels, with the latter being one-sided from the Gulf to Palestine. The lecture aims to dispel this notion by underscoring the multifaceted two-way linkages tying Palestine and the Gulf past and present. It argues for a…
CAIS Virtual Public Lecture Series | Erdogan's Islamism
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In this lecture, Prof Hakan Yavuz will delve into the crises facing political Islam, using Erdogan's Turkey as a case study. He will start by distinguishing between Islam and Islamism, and then analyze how and why Islamism has emerged as an oppositional force against Kemalist modernization. Next,…
Reimagining Palestine Public Lecture Series | Resisting Domination in Palestine: International Aid, Security, and State/Peace Building as Sites of Settler Colonial Control
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The ongoing social, political, and conceptual struggles of Palestine against a settler-colonial regime reveal a dynamic interplay between increasingly sophisticated forms of domination and the emergence of novel modes of resistance. The dialectical interaction between colonial domination and…
Rosemarie Said Zahlan Gulf-Palestine Mini Lecture Series | Popular Activism and the Israel Boycott in Kuwait, 1953-1967
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The historical literature on the Arab boycott of Israel is limited, with existing studies focusing on the Arab League’s state-led boycott. This lecture will explore the popular dimension of the boycott through the case of Kuwait, where the local branch of the Movement of Arab Nationalists (MAN) led…
CAIS Public Lecture Series | Coexistence, Sectarianism, Nation: Iraq & Wales in Ruqaya Izzidien's "The Watermelon Boys"
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Ruqaya Izzidien’s novel presents the literary critic with many challenges. Is it a story about the lost friendships between a Jew, Muslim and Christian in the Ottoman province of Baghdad? Is it a novel about Iraq’s formation? Is it narrative about a Welshman’s animosity toward imperial England? Is…
A Conversation on Wind's "Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom" (Verso 2024)
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Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy. Drawing on extensive research and making Hebrew sources accessible to the international community, Maya Wind strongly challenges this pictures and documents how Israeli universities are directly…
CAIS Virtual Public Lecture Series | A Comparative Perspective to Iran's Security Assistance
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Providing a security assistance to regional allies, either state or non-state actors, has become the centrepiece of Iran’s national security strategy since early 2000s. Tehran has introduced a unique approach to security assistance that differs in its objective and delivery models from most…