From Lebanon to Palestine: Resisting and Returning Together

February 15, 2025
7 pm Jerusalem | 5 pm London | 12 pm New York / Lenape | 9 am San Francisco / Ohlone
Speakers:
Rania Khalek, Dr. Jamila Ghaddar, susan abulhawa, Dr. Omar Nashabe, Dr. Hanine Shehadeh

Hosted by: The People’s Forum and Publishers for Palestine

Rania Khalek is a Middle-East based journalist for Breakthrough News, where she hosts the show Dispatches. She also co-hosts the weekly Freedom Side livestream.

Dr. Jamila J. Ghaddar is a Lebanese feminist, archivist, historian, and educator. She is Assistant Professor in Archival Information & Digital Humanities at the Media Studies Department at the University of Amsterdam, and Founding Director of the Archives & Digital Media Lab (www.archiveslab.org).

susan abulhawa is a Palestinian novelist, poet, activist, founder of Playgrounds for Palestine, director of the Palestine Writes Literature Festival. Since the start of the genocide, she was able to make two trips to Gaza. She has written extensively about the horrors she witnessed there.

Dr. Omar Nashabe is an analyst in Criminal Justice and Human Rights. He has served as an adviser to the Lebanese Minister of Interior and Municipalities (2008-2011) and managed the first comprehensive monitoring of prison conditions in Lebanon.

Dr. Hanine Shehadeh is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities at NY Abu Dhabi. Her current research focuses on the intersections between settler colonialism and new media, by interrogating how new media landscapes can reinforce or resist digital colonialism, particularly in relation to indigenous identities and colonial subjugation in Palestine.