If you are around, please come and join us. The Center for the Humanities at Hood College, the Middle Eastern Studies program, and the Charlotte Moran Visiting Scholar fund cordially invite you to the first installment of the 2014-2015 Humanities Colloquium series on “Home.” Dr. Donald Wright will moderate a panel on “Identity in a Forgotten Homeland” on Tuesday September 30 from 7-9 p.m. in Whitaker Campus Commons. Our esteemed panelists are Dr. Jamil Khader, Dean of Research and Professor of English at Bethlehem University, and Dr. Ibtisam Ibrahim, Assistant Professor of Arabic at George Mason University. This event is free and open to the public. Dr. Ibrahim’s talk will be titled “Social media as mechanism for activism: The case of Palestinian women within the 1948 area.” Here is a brief summary from Dr. Ibrahim: This paper will focus on the case of four Palestinian women activists from Manteqat 1948 (Referring to Palestinians within Israel) and how they utilize social media to reach out to general public to spread their ideas. They use social media to connect with the Palestinian people throughout Palestinian territories and in diaspora. In some cases social media was used to reach out and connect with the entire Arab population beyond the borders of Israel. In this case social media created an opportunity that never existed before when Arab Palestinians inside Israel were separated from the rest of Arab World. Dr. Jamil Khaders talk will titled Forgotten identity in the imagined holy land.” Here is a brief summary from Dr. Khader: In this talk I interlace my reflections about life in the occupied territories during my year-long Fulbright Fellowship at Bir Zeit University in Palestine, with an investigation of the traces of a forgotten identity within the context of Israeli apartheid policies, Zionist settler-colonialism, and the Palestinian captive economy in the post-Oslo economic liberalization process. This forgotten identity has to do with the massive polarization of wealth in Palestine, but the potential of such identity to mobilize an international solidarity politics that can affect a significant transformation in social relations remains to be seen.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 01:43:23 +0000
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