Category: Online Lectures

  • Rami G. Khouri – Diplomatic Stalemate and Democratic Revolts: Making Sense of a Middle East Transition

    Rami G. Khouri – Diplomatic Stalemate and Democratic Revolts: Making Sense of a Middle East Transition

    Editor-at-Large of Beirut’s Daily Star newspaper, columnist and journalist, Rami G. Khouri, talks about the uprisings sweeping across the Middle East and the declining role of the United States in the region.

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  • Mapping Palestine: For its Survival

    Mapping Palestine: For its Survival

    Dr. Salman Abu Sitta discusses his new atlas which spans from 1917-1966 and includes 700 pages of detailed information from British Mandate era Palestine through the Nakba and beyond.

     

    Salman Abu Sitta is a Palestinian researcher and writes about Palestinian refugees and Palestinian right to return to Palestine. He founded and is the president of the London-based Palestine Land society. Dr. Abu Sitta is a former member of the Palestine National Council.

  • Joel Beinin – Joint Palestinian-Israeli Popular Struggle: The Face of a Future of Peace and Equality

    Joel Beinin – Joint Palestinian-Israeli Popular Struggle: The Face of a Future of Peace and Equality

    Stanford University of Middle East History, Joel Beinin, talks about the direct action movement, involving Palestinians working alongside Israeli and international solidarity activists, challenging the Israeli occupation throughout the West Bank.

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  • Noam Chomsky – Prospects for Peace in the Middle East

    Noam Chomsky – Prospects for Peace in the Middle East

    Renowned linguist, author and dissident intellectual, Noam Chomsky, talks about current transformations taking place in the Middle East, the response by the United States, and the prospects for a just peace in Palestine-Israel.

    Noam Chomsky spoke at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, on April 20, 2011. His talk was sponsored by the English Department and the College of Arts and Sciences of Pacific University.

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  • Noam Chomsky – Global Hegemony: the Facts, the Images

    Noam Chomsky – Global Hegemony: the Facts, the Images

    Renowned linguist, author, and dissident intellectual, Noam Chomsky, talks about the current state of the economy, the assault on social welfare programs and the prospects for resistance and hope in the years ahead. Noam Chomsky spoke at the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Oregon, on April 20, 2011.

    The program was sponsored by The Collins Distinguished Speaker Series and the Department of English of the University of Oregon at Eugene.

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  • Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish – I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity

    Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish – I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity

    Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish’s three daughters, Bessan, Mayar and Aya, and his neice, Nur, were killed by an Israeli tank shell which struck their home in Gaza on January 16, 2009. Dr. Abuelaish talks about his experience, his work and his book, I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity. Dr. Abuelaish spoke at Powell’s City of Books in Portland, Oregon, on January 18, 2011.

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  • Nada Elia – Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions: Because We Refuse to Be Complicit

    Nada Elia – Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions: Because We Refuse to Be Complicit

    Professor of Global and Gender Studies, Nada Elia, talks about the Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions campaign, focusing on the cultural and academic boycott of Israeli institutions. Professor Elia’s talk was the keynote address at a BDS Forum held in Portland, Oregon, on October 3, 2010.

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  • Vivek Chibber, Stephen Shalom, Michael Schwartz – Imperial Agenda: from Bush to Obama

    Vivek Chibber, Stephen Shalom, Michael Schwartz – Imperial Agenda: from Bush to Obama

    New York University Professor of Sociology, Vivek Chibber, Professor of Political Science at William Paterson University, Stephen Shalom, and Professor of Sociology at State University of New York at Stony Brook, Michael Schwartz, discuss the continuities of US foreign policy from the Bush to the Obama administrations, emphasizing Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine-Israel. The panel took place at the 2010 Left Forum held on the Pace University campus in Manhattan, New York, March 19-21, 2010.

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  • Zachary Lockman – A Brief History of Zionism

    Zachary Lockman – A Brief History of Zionism

    Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and History, Zachary Lockman, provides an overview of the origins, development, and varying trends of Zionism. Zachary Lockman is chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. He is author of Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948 and Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism. He spoke in his office on the campus of New York University on March 17th, 2010.

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  • Ali Abunimah – Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions: Strategies for a Just Peace in Palestine-Israel

    Ali Abunimah – Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions: Strategies for a Just Peace in Palestine-Israel

    Co-founder of the Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah, talks about the prospects for a just resolution to the conflict in Palestine-Israel, the debate over one-state or two-state solutions, and the Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions campaign to bring an end to the illegal Israeli occupation in the West Bank and the blockade of Gaza. Ali Abunimah spoke in Portland, Oregon, on March 5th, 2010.

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