Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, presents "The Genocide of Gaza in Context: the Political Economy of 100 years of Settler-Colonial Occupation of Palestine."
With commentary on the racialized political discourse of the American support for foreign occupation by Marc Lamont Hill, Presidential Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Moderation by Ibrahim Shikaki, Assistant Professor of Economics at Trinity College and NSSR Economics alum.
This event took place on February 20, 2024.
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Introduction by Clara Mattei, Associate Professor of Economics at NSSR:
"As a faculty member of the Economics department at The New School, I am honored to introduce world-famous scholars who will help us shed light on the long term historical and economic processes of the ongoing tragedy in the Middle East. It is at once a duty and a privilege to strive to gain profound knowledge of the history and political economy of the region. The fact that there are so many of us here speaks to the urgency of the conversation.
Rashid Khalidi the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia. He received a B.A. from Yale University in 1970 and a D. Phil. from Oxford University in 1974, and has taught at the Lebanese University, the American University of Beirut, and the University of Chicago.
He was President of the Middle East Studies Association, and was editor and co-editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies for 20 years. He served as an advisor to the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid and Washington Arab-Israeli peace negotiations from October 1991 until June 1993.
It is impossible to do justice to the scope of contribution as a world acclaimed scholar who has been working on the history of Palestine for more than 50 years. He is indeed the author of more than 100 academic articles and 8 books. His latest book is in my hands that I highly recommend, ":The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917- 2017" (2020) is the recipient of the MEMO Book Award; his previous book "Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. has Undermined Peace in the Middle East," 2013, winner of the Lionel Trilling Book Award and the MEMO Book Award and his book "The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood," 2006, winner of the 2007 Arab American National Museum Book Award.
Rashid Khalidi has written op-eds in the New York Times, Washington Post, and many other newspapers, and has appeared widely on TV and radio in the US and abroad.
Marc Lamont Hill is Presidential Professor of Urban Education, Anthropology at CUNY Graduate Center. He received a BS from Temple University and a Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. His work explores issues of race, education, citizenship, and state violence in the United States and Middle East.
Using ethnographic methods, for over two decades has explored Blackness and perceptions of identity amongst Afro-Palestinians in East Jerusalem’s Old City. This research has also provided the foundation for Black In The Holy Land, an ethnographic film that unpacks the racial complexities of Israel and Palestine through the experiences of Afro-descendant populations.
He is the author of innumerable articles and 7 books. His 2021 book, "Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics", won the 2021 - Palestine Book Award. It explores the inability of progressive Western media to adequately understand the oppression of Palestinian people. His 2016 book, "Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond," won the Nautilus Book Award and was a New York Times editor of choice.
Ibrahim Shikaki is Assistant Professor of Economics at Trinity College, Hartford, CT. He earned his PhD from The New School for Social Research, and held teaching and research positions in Palestine, Italy and the U.S. Ibrahim teaches courses in macroeconomics, inequality, growth and history of thought, and his research revolves around using heterodox economics to study the political economy of Palestine. His recent publications include a journal article Shikaki, I. (2023). “A Structuralist Model of the Palestinian Economy: Who bears the economic burden of the Israeli occupation? Review of Political Economy, a book chapter on the political economy of dependency and class formation in Palestine, and a Foreign Policy piece on the dangers of “economic peace”.
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