Inside the Leviathand: Palestinian Experiences in Israeli Universities

Wednesday, 24/05/2023, 19:00 (Palestine)

A talk with book editors Yara Sa’di-Ibraheem and Khaled Furani, in conversation with Jamil Khader, Dina Zbeidat (delivered in Arabic)

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Yara Sa’di-Ibraheem: A postdoctoral fellow at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. She completed her PhD in Human Geography. Her research fields include indigenous geographies and time, neoliberal planning and infrastructure development under settler colonialism. She has published in various journals including Settler Colonial Studies, Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies, Urban Planning, GeoJournal, Time & Society and Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space.

Khaled Furani is a Professor of Anthropology at Tel-Aviv University, on the lands of al-Sheikh Muwannis, who studies social theory, modernity, language and literature, theology, secularism, Palestine, and the history of the anthropological field. He is a founding member of Insanniyat- the Society of Palestinian Anthropologists, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. The author of Silencing the Sea: Secular Rhythms in Palestinian Poetry (2012), an ethnography published by Stanford University Press, and Redeeming Anthropology: A Theological Critique of a Modern Science, which examines the relations between anthropology and theology, (2019) by Oxford University Press. In addition to academic articles published in several journals including American Anthropologist, Journal of Modern Arabic Literature, Journal of Palestine Studies, American Ethnologist, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Feminist Anthropology, Postscripts: Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds, Theory and Event, Annual Review of Anthropology.

Jamil Khader is Dean of Research and Professor of English at Bethlehem University. He earned his Ph. D. in English Literature at the Pennsylvania State University (USA), and taught at Bilkent University (Turkey) and at Stetson University (USA). He received various awards, including two Fulbright Fellowships and various Community Impact and Student Advocacy Awards. He is the author of two books on feminism and the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek and his numerous articles appeared in various international journals and other collections, including Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Critical Theory, The European Journal of Popular Culture, Journal of World Systems Research, the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, The Middle East Report (MERIP), Islamophobia Studies Journal, Ariel, Feminist Studies, College Literature, MELUS, The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, The Philosophical Salon, Mondoweiss, Truthout, The Palestine Chronicle, and others.

Dina Zbeidy: is a social science lecturer at the Leiden University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands and postdoc researcher on human rights education. She completed her PhD research in Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam on civil society and refugee discourse around marriage in Jordan. Her research focuses, among others, on human rights and development organizations, gender and law, refugees and displacement. She completed her Bachelor’s Degree in Jerusalem in Social and Political Sciences. In 2010 she received the Fulbright Scholarship to complete a Master’s degree in Anthropology at the University of Columbia in New York where she wrote on the construction of Palestinian and Israeli identities in Israel and the role of the Israeli education system herein. She has over eight years of professional experience in NGO work in Palestine and the Netherlands.

المُلخّص: انبثقت فكرة الكتاب من نقاشات لمجموعة من الطلبة الفلسطينيين في جامعات إسرائيلية حول سؤال شروط المعرفة الفلسطينية اليقظة في سياق حاضر استعماري ونيوليبرالي، وحول موضعة الظرف الفلسطيني في سياقه الكوني، لنفيد من تجارب شعوب أخرى في شق طريق العلم التي تناهض ولا تشارك في استنساخ القمع. يتكون الكتاب من ثلاث "جرعات": الحوارات: وهي محاولة للانكشاف على سيرورة المُحاضِر الفلسطيني أو المحاضِرة الفلسطينية فكرياً، وذلك بغية الوقوف عند محطات مفصلية في نشأة فكرهما كمشروع تحرري؛ الشهادات: وتتضمن توثيقاً لتجارب طلابية فلسطينية في الجامعات الإسرائيلية من الحاضر والماضي؛ مقارنات: وهي نصوص لتجارب جامعية لدى طلبة متحدرين من جماعات مقموعة ومقاومة في دول مختلفة.

The researchers and scholars who contributed to Inside the Leviathan book include: Raef Zreik, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Andre Mazawi, Samah Abbas, Lubaba Sabri, Amir Marshi, Amir Nassar, Jamal Abu Hanna, Adwa’ Diab, Khaled Awida, Alaa Haj Yahya, and Shihab Idris. In addition to Abdul-Salam Abdul-Ghani, Raef Zreik, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Andre Mazawi, Nahla Abdo, Khawla Abu-Baker, and Taghreed Jahshan. The introduction was written by Khaled Jamal Furani. The conclusion was written by Nadim Rouhana, and the afterword was written by Yara Sa'di-Ibraheem.