Solidarity with Palestine: organising against scholasticide
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Birkbeck Clore Management Centre
Birkbeck Institute for Social Research presents the annual lecture on the theme of Solidarity with Palestine: organising against scholasticide.
This event responds to a recent call by Palestinian academics and staff of Gaza universities who came together to “affirm our existence, the existence of our colleagues and our students, and the insistence on our future, in the face of all current attempts to erase us” (https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/5/29/open-letter-by-gaza-academics-and-university-administrators-to-the-world).
In this event Dr Nadia Naser-Najjab will explain the meaning of scholasticide, the role it plays in Israel's genocidal strategy, and the ways of organising to resist it. She will explain the historical context of targeting Palestinian education as a colonial tactic aimed at eliminating Palestinian narrative.
Nadia Naser-Najjab is a Senior Lecturer in Palestine Studies at the European Centre for Palestine Studies, University of Exeter, UK. Previously she was Assistant Professor at Birzeit University, Palestine. She is the author of Dialogue in Palestine: The People-to-People Diplomacy Programme and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (I.B.Tauris, 2020). Her research is based on first-hand experience and original data collection and focuses on the Palestine-Israel peace process, Palestinian education and Palestinian resistance.
Nadine El-Enany will speak on poetry and writing in a time of genocide, taking her cue from a line from a poem by Mahmoud Darwish - 'Singing in a cage is possible'
Professor Nadine El-Enany teaches and researches in the fields of migration law, EU law, protest and racial state violence. Her current research projects focus on race and justice in death in custody cases, and the role of law in addressing health inequalities arising from environmental harm.
She is the recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize. Her book (B)ordering Britain: Law, race and empire (2020) is published by Manchester University Press and was awarded the Socio-Legal Studies Association Socio-Legal Theory and History Prize in 2021. Her writing has appeared in various media outlets, including the Guardian, LRB Blog, Verso Blog, MAP Magazine, Truthout, New Humanist, Open Democracy and Critical Legal Thinking. Her poetry has been published in Butcher's Dog, Magma, Propel Magazine, 14 Magazine, fourteen poems, Poetry Wales, Gutter Magazine and Black Iris. She is a contributor the forthcoming collection Palestine in a World on Fire (2024) edited by Katherine Natanel and Ilan Pappé.
Hadeel Awadallah, will join by video link and share her experience on the struggles of academia under occupation with us.
Hadeel Awadallah is a human rights and international law student at Al-Quds Bard (AQB) College for Arts and Sciences in East Jerusalem. Her research focuses on scholasticide in Gaza, particularly how it constitutes an assault on Palestinian continuity and self determination. She also interns at the NGO Anera.
Sami El-Enany will talk about his work at the The Cremisan Valley located in Palestine on the seam line between the West Bank and Jerusalem.The valley is the last green area accessible to Palestinians in Bethlehem, with vast stretches of agricultural and recreational grounds and is currently being annexed by Israeli forces.
Sami El-Enany is an artist who works with sound, fraying the edges of modern classical, electronica, storytelling and found sound. His work includes multi-channel installation, electroacoustic composition, sound design, record production and image-sound collaboration.As a musician and improviser, Sami is currently developing tape collage techniques as a tool for listening and reflection. The source material for the tapes are a scrapbook of exploratory recording sessions, off-cuts from film scores, and found sound spanning his travels as a field recordist. Sami narrates the tape collages with improvisations at the piano. Through his practice and research, Sami is delving into the sonics of solidarity, exploring sound as resonance for union. Sami’s compositions have received accolades from the Africa Movie Academy Awards, Grand Prix Nova, BBC Drama Awards and Phonurgia Nova. He is a visiting lecturer at Sandberg Institute.
Speakers from student encampments at Goldsmiths and SOAS will share their experiences of organising solidarity with Palestine from within the university. Sew4Palestine will speak on their protest: a katipunan of Birkbeck students, alumni, staff and supporters who are hand-sewing a flag on the lawn between SOAS and Birkbeck as a symbolic protest against the genocide and to create space for public recognition of the genocide and discussion about what the university can do in support of Palestine.
Contact name:
Matthew Barrington
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Dr Nadia Naser-Najjab
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Nadia Naser-Najjab is a Senior Lecturer in Palestine Studies at the European Centre for Palestine Studies, University of Exeter, UK. Previously she was Assistant Professor at Birzeit University, Palestine. She is the author of Dialogue in Palestine: The People-to-People Diplomacy Programme and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (I.B.Tauris, 2020). Her research is based on first-hand experience and original data collection and focuses on the Palestine-Israel peace process, Palestinian education and Palestinian resistance.
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Professor Nadine El-Enany
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Professor Nadine El-Enany teaches and researches in the fields of migration law, EU law, protest and racial state violence. Her current research projects focus on race and justice in death in custody cases, and the role of law in addressing health inequalities arising from environmental harm.
She is the recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize. Her book (B)ordering Britain: Law, race and empire (2020) is published by Manchester University Press and was awarded the Socio-Legal Studies Association Socio-Legal Theory and History Prize in 2021. Her writing has appeared in various media outlets, including the Guardian, LRB Blog, Verso Blog, MAP Magazine, Truthout, New Humanist, Open Democracy and Critical Legal Thinking. Her poetry has been published in Butcher's Dog, Magma, Propel Magazine, 14 Magazine, fourteen poems, Poetry Wales, Gutter Magazine and Black Iris. She is a contributor the forthcoming collection Palestine in a World on Fire (2024) edited by Katherine Natanel and Ilan Pappé.