Reimagining Palestine Public Lecture Series | Environmental and Land Justice in Palestine
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This talk delves into the interplay between environmental and land justice and settler colonialism in Palestine. Professor Qumsiyeh will elucidate how the colonisation of Palestine has led to the destruction of diverse human and natural communities while highlighting the inseparable connection…
CAIS Public Lecture Series | Healthcare Translation for a Diglossic Community: The Case of Arabic Speakers in Australia
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Effective access to multilingual information is essential to health literacy among culturally and linguistically diverse communities. For healthcare information to be accessible and effective, there is a need not only for quality translations, but also for effective dissemination media. In this…
MAJLIS @ANU | Virtual Excursions into Turkmen National Identity Through Women's Attires
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Turkmenistan, a country steeped in history and cultural richness, offers a fascinating lens through which one may explore national identity. During this brief talk, Gulshat Rozyyeva attempts to delve into the complex world of Turkmen national identity or Turkmenchilik through the lenses of Turkmen…
CAIS Virtual Public Lecture Series | Reimagining Palestine
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Mainstream discussions on Palestine have long been dominated by voices that have sought to sideline, if not wholly invisibilise, Palestinian narrations centring experiences ranging from the Nakba to the Israeli Occupation. This occlusion has carried with it serious implications on our collective…
CAIS Virtual Public Lecture Series | Sinews of War and Trade, Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula
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The Ansar Allah movement in Yemen, known as the Houthis, announced last November its intervention on behalf of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip targeting Israeli ships seeking to enter the Red Sea, and later on targeting any ship docking at an Israeli port. The US’s Operation Prosperity Guardian…
MAJLIS @ANU | Socio-cultural Policies as Performance Legitimation: The Case of the Gulf States
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For over fifty years, Gulf studies has been dominated by a focus on oil that has distracted attention away from a nuanced understanding of state-society relations in favour of overly deterministic and totalising accounts centred on oil. In this presentation, Tony Allison argues that the time has…
International Women Day Lecture | Palestine is a Feminist Issue
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At a UN International Conference on Women in Nairobi, Kenya in July 1985, leading Egyptian Arab feminist Nawal al-Saadawi was getting ready to give her talk when leading American feminist Betty Friedan came up to her and whispered "Please do not bring up Palestine in your speech. This is a women's…