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This is Episode 9 (dated 3 December 2023) of The War on Palestine Podcast, an approximately 20-minute regular audio program that comprises updates on what is happening on the ground in Palestine as well as some focused analysis on how to make sense of those developments. The podcast features Noura Erakat, Ziad Abu-Rish, and Bassam Haddad. Research for this program was conducted by Mayss al-Alami, Sarah al-Yahya, Anas Alkhatib, Raneem Ayyad, and Alaa Attiah Mitwali. The update component of the program addresses key developments in a combination of the following areas: Gaza and the rest of Palestine. The United Nations and legal advocacy. Regional state’s policies and statements The US media landscape Grassroots reverberations and mobilizations This program is meant to be a resource for educators, activists, researchers, and laypersons wanting to follow closely as the catastrophic situation continues to unfold.

This is Episode 8 (dated 26 November 2023) of The War on Palestine Podcast, an approximately 20-minute regular audio program that comprises updates on what is happening on the ground in Palestine as well as some focused analysis on how to make sense of those developments. The podcast features Noura Erakat, Ziad Abu-Rish, and Bassam Haddad. Research for this program was conducted by Mayss al-Alami, Sarah al-Yahya, Anas Alkhatib, Raneem Ayyad, and Alaa Attiah Mitwali. The update component of the program addresses key developments in a combination of the following areas: Gaza and the rest of Palestine. The United Nations and legal advocacy. Regional state’s policies and statements The US media landscape Grassroots reverberations and mobilizations This program is meant to be a resource for educators, activists, researchers, and laypersons wanting to follow closely as the catastrophic situation continues to unfold.

This is Episode 7 (dated 21 November 2023) of The War on Palestine Podcast, an approximately 20-minute regular audio program that comprises updates on what is happening on the ground in Palestine as well as some focused analysis on how to make sense of those developments. The podcast features Noura Erakat, Ziad Abu-Rish, and Bassam Haddad. Research for this program was conducted by Mayss al-Alami, Sarah al-Yahya, Anas Alkhatib, Raneem Ayyad, and Alaa Attiah Mitwali. The update component of the program addresses key developments in a combination of the following areas: Gaza and the rest of Palestine. The United Nations and legal advocacy. Regional state’s policies and statements The US media landscape Grassroots reverberations and mobilizations This program is meant to be a resource for educators, activists, researchers, and laypersons wanting to follow closely as the catastrophic situation continues to unfold.

This is Episode 6 (dated 16 November 2023) of The War on Palestine Podcast, an approximately 20-minute regular audio program that comprises updates on what is happening on the ground in Palestine as well as some focused analysis on how to make sense of those developments. The podcast features Noura Erakat, Ziad Abu-Rish, and Bassam Haddad. Research for this program was conducted by Mayss al-Alami, Sarah al-Yahya, Anas Alkhatib, Raneem Ayyad, and Alaa Attiah Mitwali. The update component of the program addresses key developments in a combination of the following areas: Gaza and the rest of Palestine. The United Nations and legal advocacy. Regional state’s policies and statements The US media landscape Grassroots reverberations and mobilizations This program is meant to be a resource for educators, activists, researchers, and laypersons wanting to follow closely as the catastrophic situation continues to unfold.

This is Episode 5 (dated 12 November 2023) of The War on Palestine Podcast, an approximately 20-minute regular audio program that comprises updates on what is happening on the ground in Palestine as well as some focused analysis on how to make sense of those developments. The podcast features Noura Erakat, Ziad Abu-Rish, and Bassam Haddad. Research for this program was conducted by Mayss al-Alami, Sarah al-Yahya, Anas Alkhatib, Raneem Ayyad, and Alaa Attiah Mitwali. The update component of the program addresses key developments in a combination of the following areas: Gaza and the rest of Palestine. The United Nations and legal advocacy. Regional state’s policies and statements The US media landscape Grassroots reverberations and mobilizations This program is meant to be a resource for educators, activists, researchers, and laypersons wanting to follow closely as the catastrophic situation continues to unfold.

This is Episode 4 (dated 7 November 2023) of The War on Palestine Podcast, an approximately 20-minute regular audio program that comprises updates on what is happening on the ground in Palestine as well as some focused analysis on how to make sense of those developments. The podcast features Noura Erakat, Ziad Abu-Rish, and Bassam Haddad. Research for this program was conducted by Mayss al-Alami, Sarah al-Yahya, Anas Alkhatib, Raneem Ayyad, and Alaa Attiah Mitwali. The update component of the program addresses key developments in a combination of the following areas: Gaza and the rest of Palestine. The United Nations and legal advocacy. Regional state’s policies and statements The US media landscape Grassroots reverberations and mobilizations This program is meant to be a resource for educators, activists, researchers, and laypersons wanting to follow closely as the catastrophic situation continues to unfold.

This is Episode 3 (dated 3 November 2023) of The War on Palestine Podcast, an approximately 20-minute regular audio program that comprises updates on what is happening on the ground in Palestine as well as some focused analysis on how to make sense of those developments. The podcast features Noura Erakat, Ziad Abu-Rish, and Bassam Haddad. Research for this program was conducted by Mayss al-Alami, Sarah al-Yahya, Anas Alkhatib, Raneem Ayyad, and Alaa Attiah Mitwali. The update component of the program addresses key developments in a combination of the following areas: Gaza and the rest of Palestine. The United Nations and legal advocacy. Regional state’s policies and statements The US media landscape Grassroots reverberations and mobilizations This program is meant to be a resource for educators, activists, researchers, and laypersons wanting to follow closely as the catastrophic situation continues to unfold.

This is Episode 2 (dated 31 October 2023) of The War on Palestine Podcast, an approximately 20-minute regular audio program that comprises updates on what is happening on the ground in Palestine as well as some focused analysis on how to make sense of those developments. The podcast features Noura Erakat, Ziad Abu-Rish, and Bassam Haddad. Research for this program was conducted by Mayss al-Alami, Sarah al-Yahya, Anas Alkhatib, Raneem Ayyad, and Alaa Attiah Mitwali. The update component of the program addresses key developments in a combination of the following areas: Gaza and the rest of Palestine. The United Nations and legal advocacy. Regional state’s policies and statements The US media landscape Grassroots reverberations and mobilizations This program is meant to be a resource for educators, activists, researchers, and laypersons wanting to follow closely as the catastrophic situation continues to unfold.

We are announcing the launch of The War on Palestine Podcast, an approximately 20-minute regular program available on video or audio that comprises updates on what is happening on the ground in Palestine as well as some focused analysis on how to make sense of those developments. The podcast features Noura Erakat, Ziad Abu-Rish, and Bassam Haddad. Research for this program was conducted by Mayss al-Alami, Sarah al-Yahya, Anas Alkhatib, Raneem `Ayyad, and Alaa Attiah Mitwali. The update component of the program will address key developments in a combination of the following areas: Gaza and the rest of Palestine. The United Nations and legal advocacy. Regional state’s policies and statements The US media landscape Grassroots reverberations and mobilizations We will present the analysis component during the last 5 minutes of the program. It will take stock of the developments presented both for the immediate moment and the broader trajectory of the struggle for Palestinian liberation. This program is meant to be a resource for educators, activists, researchers, and laypersons wanting to follow closely as the catastrophic situation continues to unfold.

In recent months, Fondomonte Arizona, a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia-based Almarai dairy company has been getting renewed attention for growing alfalfa in drought-prone Arizona, and sending it to Saudi Arabia to feed the country’s cows. Despite a worsening drought, several factors including political influence and lack of regulations have allowed the company to draw an unlimited amount of groundwater from the wells it operates in the area. According to the Associated Press, the two new wells would have pumped in just three minutes what a family of four uses in a month. Why did Saudi Arabia choose Arizona for its crop production? In her new book "Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arabia and Arizona" (University of Syracuse), political geographer Professor Natalie Koch explores the exchange of colonial technologies between the Arabian Peninsula and the United States over the last two centuries. She spoke with Malihe Razazan. Courtesy of Voices of the Middle East & North Africa (VOMENA).

Israeli's latest assault on Jenin refugee camp, the largest since its 2002 invasion, killed at least 12 Palestinians and injured approximately hundreds of others. Palestinian political analyst Mouin Rabbani spoke about the attack in conversation with Shahram Aghamir. In the second part of this episode, Berkeley artist Mokhtar Paki spoke to Malihe Razazan about his mural "Sinbad Voyage," which highlights the resilience of immigrants. Courtesy of Voices of the Middle East & North Africa (VOMENA).

On May 28th, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was re-elected for a third term by winning 52% of the popular vote- His main rival Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu garnered 48%. Two weeks earlier, the right wing Islamist-Nationalist coalition consisting of Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) and its allies had won the majority in the parliamentary election. Shahram Aghamir spoke with Professor Cihan Tuğal about these outcomes and how and why Erdogan was able to secure a third term in office despite a worsening economy and now chronic hyperinflation, the government's disastrous response to the deadly earthquakes, as well as his increasingly authoritarian rule. Courtesy of Voices of the Middle East & North Africa (VOMENA).

The country of Lebanon has been in social and economic upheaval over the past few years, sending many of its beleaguered citizens into international exile in search of basic economic survival. VOMENA's Khalil Bendib speaks with Lebanese activist and academic Rayan El-Amine who, after a decade in his native land, has returned to the Bay area with his family, about the travails of a country that is geographically diminutive but has always loomed large in the conscience of the world. Host: Khalil Bendib Guest: Rayan El- Amine, activist and scholar Courtesy of Voices of the Middle East & North Africa.

Now approaching seventy tons annually, gold has replaced cotton as Mali’s leading export, turning that country into Africa’s third-largest gold producer. The primary destination of artisanal gold seems to be the United Arab Emirates. By all evidence, the gold that shines in the souks of Dubai is the product of a complex web of criminal networks, terrorist groups and internationally sanctioned regimes, who use this non-industrially mined gold to launder their money. The Emirates have long been a global hub for transnational African merchants, who travel to Dubai to purchase imported goods such as Japanese-made auto parts or Chinese-made garments. Emirati authorities and commercial players are now exploiting their country’s existing commercial status to make the UAE an important node for the trade in precious metals, especially gold. These buyers are actively financing associates in Mali and throughout the Sahel and Sahara regions, driving the expansion of artisanal mining into new areas." Malihe Razazan speaks with Bruce Whitehouse about the reasons why Mali is emerging as the main production hub for Sahelian countries and why Dubai is the number one destination for artisanal gold trade. Host: Malihe Razazan Guest: Bruce Whitehouse is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Lehigh University. His work and research have concentrated on postcolonial sub-Saharan Africa, anthropological demography, development, with a special emphasis on transnational migration. Courtesy of Voices of the Middle East & North Africa.

Last September, Mahsa-Jina Amini, a twenty-two-year-old woman from the Kurdish region of Iran, died while in the custody of Iran’s notorious "morality police." During the funeral in her hometown of Saghez, which was to become the epicenter of the nationwide protests in Iran, women took off their headscarves, chanting ‘Women Life Freedom’, a slogan which became an iconic chant both within Iran and beyond. Images of young women protesters openly taking off their headscarves and burning them sent the unmistakable message to the ruling clerics that they could no longer impose their draconian and nonsensical laws on women and girls in Iran. Throughout the country, in the schools, universities, and streets young people became the leaders of protests calling for an end to the oxymoronic "Islamic republic.“ But, as predicted, the brutality employed by the regime’s security apparatus to suppress the protests at any cost took on epic proportions. Over 500 protesters have reportedly been killed so far, including 70 children. In addition, to this day four protesters have been executed by the state, with many more also facing the death sentence. Hundreds of protesters were also blinded by Metal Pellets and Rubber Bullets. Furthermore, over the past six months, human rights organizations have documented the pervasive use of torture and abuse of detained protestors. A newly released report by Amnesty International, for example, reveals that the Iranian authorities have, among other torture methods, used sexual violence against imprisoned children. Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Diana Eltahawy, has said that "Iran’s violence against children exposes a deliberate strategy to crush the vibrant spirit of the country’s youth and stop them from demanding freedom and human rights.” Professor Shahrzad Mojab, who is our guest today, says that much of the push for the current protests has come from young people, who are more aware than previous generations of women's issues thanks to social media. "They have their own powerful reason for wanting a change of regime: a desire for a better future." Professor Shahrzad Mojab is a scholar, teacher, and activist, and she’s internationally known for her work on the impacts of war, displacement, and violence upon women’s learning and education. Malihe Razazan spoke with her about the protest movement, the islamization of the education system as well as the role of young women in the protests, and started by asking her to talk about the genesis of the slogan "Women Life Freedom," and how it encapsulates the spirit and objectives of the protests in Iran. Host: Malihe Razazan Guest: Shahrazad Mojab is Professor of Adult Education and Community Development and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. Her most recent books are Marxism & Migration; Women of Kurdistan: A Historical and Bibliographical Study; and Revolutionary Learning: Marxism, Feminism and Knowledge. Courtesy of Voices of the Middle East & North Africa.

Even by Israel’s abysmal standards, provocations against the people of Palestine have seen a dramatic escalation since the arrival of Bibi Netanyahu’s new government three months ago: hundreds of innocent civilians murdered, including many children, an outright anti-Palestinian pogrom in the West Bank that was cheered on by the minister of interior, a brutal attack on worshippers inside one of Islam’s holy sites in the middle of Ramadan, as well as statements by a key government official declaring that the Palestinian people simply does not exist. At the same time, a historic wave of protests contesting the new government’s attempts to temper with the role of the judiciary claims to defend democracy in the holy land without a single mention of the central question of Palestinian civil and human rights. We asked asked prominent Israeli historian Ilan Pappé for his take on these recent developments. Host: Malihe Razazan & Khalil Bendib Guest: Professor Pappé obtained his BA degree from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1979 and the D. Phil from the University of Oxford in 1984. He founded and directed the Academic Institute for Peace in Givat Haviva, Israel between 1992 to 2000 and was the Chair of the Emil Tuma Institute for Palestine Studies in Haifa between 2000 and 2006. Professor Pappé was a senior lecturer in the department of Middle Eastern History and the Department of Political Science in Haifa University, Israel between 1984 and 2006. He was appointed as chair in the department of History in the Cornwall Campus, 2007-2009 and became a fellow of the IAIS in 2010. His research focuses on the modern Middle East and in particular the history of Israel and Palestine. He has also written on multiculturalism, Critical Discourse Analysis and on Power and Knowledge in general. Courtesy of Voices of the Middle East & North Africa.

The 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq resulted in massive death and destruction, and fueled sectarian tensions, which culminated in a violent civil war. More than 300,000 Iraqis have died from direct war violence and 9.2 million people have been internally displaced, according to Brown University's Costs of War Project. The brutal invasion and occupation of Iraq entrenched the country in a cycle of sectarian violence and impacted every aspect of life in Iraq, from governance to health care, infrastructure, economy and the environment and long term trauma In a recent piece in the Guardian, one of today’s guests Professor Sinan Antoon writes, “I had always hoped to see the end of Saddam’s dictatorship at the hands of the Iraqi people, not courtesy of a neocolonial project that would dismantle what had remained of the Iraqi state and replace it with a regime based on ethno-sectarian dynamics, plunging the country into violent chaos and civil wars." This week, we bring you the first part of our conversation about the reasons behind the catastrophic invasion of Iraq. Host: Shahram Aghamir Guests: Sinan Antoon is an award winning Iraqi poet and novelist, and an Associate Professor at New York University's Gallatin School and co-founder and co-editor of Jadaliyya. His most recent novel is The Book of Collateral Damage Dr. Omar Sirri is a research associate in the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS, University of London. His doctoral dissertation, Scarecrows of the State: An Ethnography of Security Checkpoints in Contemporary Baghdad, was named co-winner of the 2022 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award in the Social Sciences from the Middle East Studies Association. Courtesy of Voices of the Middle East & North Africa.

Clashes between Sudanese armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces spread to different regions in the country, creating a humanitarian crisis of immense proportions. Hundreds have died and tens of thousands of Sudanese are attempting to escape the violence. Host Shahram Aghamir spoke to Prof. Khalid Medani about this topic. Host: Shahram Aghamir Guest: Dr. Khalid Mustafa Medani is associate professor of political science and Islamic Studies and Chair of the African Studies Program at McGill University. He received a B.A. from Brown University, an M.A. from Georgetown University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Medani has published widely on the on the roots of civil conflict and the political economy of Islamist activism in Sudan, informal finance in Somalia, the obstacles to state building in Iraq, and the role of informal networks in the rise of violent extremism. More recently, his research has focused on the role of youth activism and democratization and he is working on a book manuscript on the prospects and challenges for democracy in Sudan. in Dr. Medani is a previous recipient of a Carnegie Scholar on Islam award from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Courtesy of Voices of the Middle East & North Africa.

The catastrophic loss of life in the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria on February 6th have sparked numerous questions, such as: What can possibly explain such a high number of casualties and the widespread destruction of old and new buildings? Host Shahram Aghamir spoke to Cihan Tuğal about this topic. Host: Shahram Aghamir Guest: Cihan Tuğal, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author The Fall of the Turkish Model: How the Arab Uprisings Brought Down Islamic Liberalism, and Passive Revolution: Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism Courtesy of Voices of the Middle East & North Africa.

من خلال الحديث حول مقالته "التربية ومناهضة الاستعمار: حول عدم قراءة ابن خلدون في فلسطين"، يتطرق الأستاذ مجيد شحادة الى اشكاليات وتداعيات عولمة المعرفة. يستهل شحادة الحوار بالمشاركة بتجربته الأكاديمية والتي أثارت لديه تساؤلات حول أهداف ونتائج مناهج العلوم الاجتماعية، نوعية الأسئلة وأسأليب البحث المستعانة بها في فلسطين من جهة، وطرق التعليم من جهة أخرى. بالتالي يطرح شحادة أهمية قراءة ابن خلدون ونصوص قديمة أخرى بشكل دقيق وبطريقة حديثة تتناسب مع العصر بهدف التغيير وعدم نسخ واعادة انتاج معرفة غربية مبنية على الفكر الاستعماري. ايمانا ان المعرفة، أو على الأقل ليست كل المعرفة يمكن تطبيقها في كل العالم وليس لكل القضايا ذات الأهمية لدى جميع المجتمعات، يناقش شحادة سؤال "البديل". في هذا السياق يعرض بعض الأمثلة لمشاريع ومبادرات قائمة، كما ويشدد على أهمية تكوين تعاونيّة معرفيّة فلسطينيّة بناءا على تجربة مدرسة التابع وتيارات أخرى. بالاضافة يطرح شحادة تحديات واشكالية أخرى فيما يخص الانتاج المعرفي في فلسطين، منها: التوتر القائم بين التنظير للمارسة، والحاجة الي التطرق الى معضلات داخل المجتمع من ناحية وربط قضية فلسطين مع قضايا عالمية متنوعة من ناحية اخرى. مجيد شحادة ماجد شحادة عضو هيئة تدريس في معهد أبو لغد للدراسات الدولية في جامعة بيرزيت ، بيرزيت ، فلسطين. اهتماماته البحثية هي الحداثة والعنف والهوية والأنثروبولوجيا وسياسة المعرفة. بالإضافة إلى العديد من المقالات وفصول الكتب ، فهو مؤلف كتاب نُشر مؤخرًا بعنوان "ليست مجرد لعبة كرة قدم: الاستعمار والصراع بين الفلسطينيين في إسرائيل" ، بقلم مطبعة جامعة سيراكيوز. وهو عضو في هيئة تحرير مجلة Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences ، Resistance Studies Magazine ، و Interface: A Journal about and Social Movements. يارا سعدي يارا سعدي إبراهيم هي زميلة ما بعد الدكتوراه في مجموعة التميز "مسابقات النص الليبرالي" ، جامعة برلين الحرة. تشمل مجالات بحثها الجغرافيا الأصلية ، والاستعمار الاستيطاني ، والعمران النيوليبرالي ، والتجارب المكانية الزمانية. نُشرت أبحاثها في: Time & Society ، و Urban Planning ، و Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies ، و Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space ، وغيرها. Design by Ahmad Sleet.

يناقش أمير في هذه المقابلة تاريخ التصوير في فلسطين ، وتاريخ التصوير وبشكل عام كفرع معرفة الذي لا يتم تدريسه بشكل ممنهج في فلسطين، وما دفع الدكتور عصام إلى الاهتمام بالتصوير في المقام الأول، مع تتبع مساره الفكري ونشأته في القدس. ثم يناقش الاثنان أهمية التصوير الفوتوغرافي في فلسطين ، وكيف يتم استخدامه لقمع رواية الفلسطينيين ، وبدلاً من ذلك يروجون رواية غربية / مسيحية عن المنطقة على أنها خالية من السكان المحليين. عصام نصار باحث ومؤرخ فلسطيني مختص في تاريخ الشرق الأوسط وتاريخ التصوير الفوتوغرافي في فلسطين. يعلم التاريخ في جامعة ولاية إلينوي وزميل باحث في معهد الدراسات الفلسطينية. عمل استاذا في جامعة كاليفورنيا في بيركلي عام 2006، جامعة برادلي 2003-2006 وجامعة القدس 1998-2003. كتب العديد من الكتب٬ أهمها Photographing Jerusalem: The Image of the City in Nineteenth Century Photography، بالاضافة الى تحرير الكتب مع الباحث سليم تماري مثل دراسات في التاريخ الاجتماعي لبلاد الشام: قراءات في السير والسير الذاتية. أمير نصار طالب ماجيستير في قسم الأدب الانجليزي في جامعة تل-أبيب. يكتب حاليا أطروحته حول موضوع العودة في السيرة الذاتية الفلسطينية. حاصل على لقب أول في العلوم السياسية والأدب الإنجليزي في جامعة تل-أبيب. مهتم بعدة مواضيع بحثية مثل الأدب الفلسطيني والتصوير عمومًا وتاريخ التصوير في فلسطين.

​​في هذا الحوار يخوض القس متري راهب في مسيرته الحياتية كلاهوتي ومفكّر وراعي لكنيسة في بيت لحم، فالانتفاضة الأولى والثانية عرضت رعيّته في بيت لحم لعنف الاحتلال الشرس والمدمّر وفرضت أسئلة روحية جديدة التي دفعته الى تأسيس ما يسميه بال"اللاهوت السياقي"(Contextual Theology). "قراءة الكتاب المقدّس في عيون فلسطينية" بالنسبة للقس راهب تحصل من خلال خلق حوار ما بين التعاليم الروحيّة المسيحية والتاريخ الفلسطيني العريق والحديث حيث تصبح التجربة الفلسطينية المعاصرة مفتاحًا معرفيًّا وروحيًّا لفهم الانجيل. يتحدّث القس راهب أيضًا عن مركزية التحليل التاريخي الجيوسياسي للكتاب المقدّس، فهو انعكاس، بل منتوج، لصيرورة تاريخية محددة ما زالت تستمر حتى يومنا هذا لشعبٍ يحاول فهم واقعه وبناء أمل للخلاص داخله في ظل عنف الإمبراطوريات المختلفة التي توالت في سيطرتها عليه ومارست حروبها المختلفة على أرض وطنه. يناقش القس أيضًا في هذا الحوار أهمية الإنتاج المعرفي والفني الفلسطيني في صيانة الهوية التاريخية الفلسطينية، ودور جامعة دار الكلمة في بيت لحم التي يترأسها في بناء المشروع الجماعي الاجتماعي والسياسي الذي يجمع بين الفن والبحث والفكر واللاهوت لصيانة السردية الفلسطينية بشكلٍ يعود الى الجذور العريقة والمتعددة الطبقات من دون إقصاء أي طبقة، مشروع يدفع الأجيال القيادية القادمة لإعادة تخيّل التاريخ الفلسطينية والمستقبل الفلسطيني بشكل نقدي، ديناميكي وتحرري ينطلق من السؤال المصيري الأهم: "أيّ فلسطين نريد؟" متري راهب: القس والدكتور متري الراهب هو من مواليد وسكّان بيت لحم، وهو لاهوتي وباحث فلسطيني ومؤسس ورئيس لجامعة دار الكلمة في بيت لحم. حصل القس على درجة الدكتوراه في اللاهوت من جامعة فيليبس في ماربورغ عام 1987، ألمانيا، ودكتوراه فخرية من جامعة كونكورديا في شيكاغو عام 2003. عمله البحثي والكتابي كثيف جدًّا، حيث ألف العشرات من المقالات، وعمل كمدير تحرير لمجلة اللقاء للدراسات الدينية والتراثية في الأرض المقدسة، وحرر ما يزيد عن ٢٤ كتابًا وألّف حوالي ال ١٦ كتاب: من بينها: "الصليب في السياقات: المعاناة والفداء في فلسطين", "الإيمان بوجه الإمبراطورية: الكتاب المقدس بعيون فلسطينية," "اختراع التاريخ: قرن من التفاعل بين اللاهوت والسياسة في فلسطين والكتاب المقدس بعيون فلسطينية," وهو ايضًا موّلّف شريك مع سائر القياديين المسيحين في فلسطين لوثيقة وحركة "كايروس فلسطين" المعروفة ايضًا بوثيقة "وقفة حق". كتبه ومقالاته العديدة ترجمت حتى الآن إلى إحدى عشرة لغة. اما بالنسبة لعمله الرعوي والكنسي، شغل القس متري الراهب كراعي لكنيسة الميلاد الإنجيلية اللوثرية في بيت لحم من 1987 حتى 2017 ورئيسًا لسينودس الكنيسة الإنجيلية اللوثرية في الأردن وفلسطين من 2011 إلى 2016. في عام 2018 انتخب القسيس لعضوية المجلس الوطني الفلسطيني والمجلس المركزي الفلسطيني. أسس القسيس راهب العديد من الجمعيات والمنظمات الثقافية والتعليمية والاجتماعية وحتى الصحية. منها المنتدى الأكاديمي المسيحي للمواطنة في العالم العربي (CAFCAW)، دار الندوة الدولية التي تهدف الى تقدّم المجتمع المدني في فلسطين، مركز دار الكلمة للصحة والعافية، وهو عضو مؤسس وعضو مجلس إدارة مكتبة فلسطين الوطنية، ومؤسس ورئيس منظمة كونسورتيوم ديار.

In August 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden signed an act expanding benefits and healthcare to U.S. veterans exposed to toxins in burn pits. But what about Iraqi exposure to burn pits? Kali Rubaii's research addresses their longterm diffuse exposure at all stages of their life, with effects that are varied and widespread. Rubaii has worked closely with Iraqi families since 2009, leading a team of doctors, epidemiologists and activists to conduct a case control study among families experiencing birth defects that may be linked to burn pits and bombings. In this interview, she speaks with Malihe Razazan about her work. Courtesy of Voices of the Middle East & North Africa (VOMENA). ---- Kali Rubaii earned her PhD in Anthropology from University of California, Santa Cruz and her BA in International Relations from University of California, Davis. Specialization: displacement, ecologies of war, spatial politics, forensic ethnography, health justice, Middle East. Kali Rubaii is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Purdue University, interested in sharpening resistance strategies that target the vulnerable nexus between coercive power and the physical world. Her research explores the environmental impacts of less-than-lethal militarism, and how military projects (re)arrange political ecologies in the name of “letting live.” Her book project, Counter-resurgency, examines how farmers in Anbar, Iraq struggle to survive and recover from transnational counterinsurgency projects. She is currently conducting fieldwork for two ethnographic projects: Taking toxicity as an analytic for material politics, she is working with a team of doctors, epidemiologists, and environmental activists to document the links between the epidemic of birth defects in Fallujah and military environmental damage. She is also researching the corporate-military enterprise of concrete production in post-invasion Iraq and how it enforces global regimes of class and citizenship.

تمّ إجراء المقابلة معه قبل وفاته بعدة أشهر، تحدّث د. عبد الستّار قاسم عن النقاط المفصلية في مسيرة حياته، والتي أثّرت على مجمل النشاطات التي يقوم بها على المستويين الشخصي والعام. ‏وتحدّث عن قلة الإنتاج المعرفي النقدي حول فلسطين وعن صعوبة إنشاء مساحة نقدية فلسطينية تشجع الفكر النقدي مع توضيح حيثيات المجتمع الفلسطيني الذي يحول دون ذلك، بالإضافة إلى شحّ تمويل المراكز البحثية والندوات والمؤتمرات العلمية. ووضّح أنّ المؤسسات العلمية هي ليست مؤسسات فلسطينية بقدر ما هي مؤسسات فصائلية أو قبلية، وهذا يؤثر على الإنتاج، وحتى لو أعطى إنتاج فالإنتاج يكون هزيلًا على المستوى العلمي العالمي المطلوب، وإنما يكون منحازًا مسبقًا، ويُكتب لصالح هذا الفصيل أو ذاك، لأنه في النهاية يريد أن يرضي الجهة التي تمول مركز الأبحاث، وهذا الشيء كان عصيّا على قبول د. عبد الستار قاسم. وفي هذا السياق أشار د. قاسم إلى ضرورة عدم تسييس المؤسسات التعليمية؛ فالتسييس –برأيه- يخرّب المؤسسات العلمية والتعليمية (المدارس والجامعات). والمفترض بهذه المؤسسات أن تقوم وفق أسس ومبادئ ومنطلقات علمية. عبد الستار قاسم: كاتب ومفكر ومحلل سياسي وأكاديمي فلسطيني من بلدة دير الغصون قضاء طولكرم، وأستاذ العلوم السياسية والدراسات الفلسطينية في جامعة النجاح الوطنية في نابلس، وهو معروف بمواقفه الرافضة للمفاوضات مع إسرائيل، ومواقفه المنتقدة للسلطة الوطنية الفلسطينية. وُلد عام 1948، وتوفي عام 2021. صدر له 25 كتابًا، وحوالي 130 بحثًا علميًا، وآلاف المقالات أبرزها: الفلسفة السياسية التقليدية، سقوط ملك الملوك (حول الثورة الإيرانية)، الشهيد عز الدين القسام، مرتفعات الجولان، التجربة الاعتقالية، أيام في معتقل النقب، حرية الفرد والجماعة في الإسلام، المرأة في الفكر الإسلامي، سيدنا إبراهيم والميثاق مع بني إسرائيل، الطريق إلى الهزيمة، الموجز في القضية الفلسطينية، قبور الثقفين العرب. لبابة صبري: فلسطينية مقدسية، محاضرة في جامعة بيت لحم في فلسطين، وباحثة في مجال علم الاجتماع وعلم الإنسان، متخصصة بعلم اجتماع الفن والأدب والمسرح، رسالة الدكتوراة حول أنثروبولوجيا ممثلي مسرح الحكواتي في القدس، ورسالة الماجستير حول سيسولوجيا روايات الفلسطيني غسان كنفاني بعنوان "الرؤية الفكرية والمخيم الفلسطيني في روايات غسان كنفاني". المقالات البحثية المنشورة: "علم اجتماع مجموعات التكيف/ النازحين في فلسطين داخل حدود 67: دراسة مقارنة بين أهالي قرية صرعة وقرية لفتا في مخيم قلنديا للاجئين" 2006، "علم اجتماع الأدب: دراسة لنظرية جولدمان" 2007، "صناعة الحب والكراهية" 2008، "البنية الفكرية في روايات غسان كنفاني" 2008، "مراجعة نقدية لمقال صناعة الثقافة ل Adorno و Horkheimer: التنوير بوصفه خداعاً جماهيرياً" 2009، "بنية الثقافة والمجتمع في المدينة الفلسطينية" 2016.

خلال المقابلة تحدثنا بروفيسور ايزيس عن أهم المراحل المفصلية في حياتها، والتي تتأثر من الأحداث السياسية العالمية والمحلية والتي تهز كيان المرأ من الداخل وتتحول هذه الأحداث الى دافع وشغف لتوظيف المعرفة لخدمة العدالة الاجتماعية. تؤمن ايزيس بأن الانتاج المعرفي النقدي حول فلسطين بإستطاعته أن يتخطى حدود فلسطين الجغرافية والقومية، ومن الأنجع أن يتقاطع مع صراعات الشعوب المقموعة الاخرى حول العالم، حيث ان هذه الصراعات تنصب في ذات المحاور: التحرر من مباني القوة المهيمنة عالمية وإنتاج مجتمعات محتوية لأفرادها. وهنا، يكون دور البحث الأكاديمي في العلوم الاجتماعية عامة - والنسوية خاصة - هاما لينقل أصوات الشرائح المهمشة وأن يسعى للتغيير في الواقع. تطرح ايزيس خلال المقابلة أسئلة قيمة حول فهمنا للانتاج المعرفي النقدي الفلسطيني - من منظور عابر للحدود ومتحد للأطر البنيوية والمهيمنة- وكيف يتم توظيف النظريات المختلفة وأساليب البحث الخلاقة من أجل إتاحة المعرفة للجميع، مثلا عبر الفن والمسرح. بروفيسور ايزيس نصير:أستاذة مشاركة، تعلم دراسات المرأة والجندر وكذلك الدراسات الدولية في جامعة دينيسون في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية (Denison University). بعض منشوراتها; تحرير كتاب "في غربة الوطن: الإثنية والجندر لدى الفلسطينيين في اسرائيل" بشراكة مع روضة كناعنة: كتابة وتحرير مسرحية "Weaving the Maps: Tales of Survival and Resistance" بشراكة مع ليلى فرح: وقامت ايضا بترجمة "مذ لم أمت: Ever Since I Did Not Die" لرامي العاشق. وتعمل الان مع باربراه شاو (Barbara Shaw) على تحرير مقالات عن الشراكة النسوية في التعليم والتعلُم. أبحاث ايزيس تركز على الفلسطينيين في إسرائيل، اللاجئات العراقيات في الأردن والولايات المتحدة، اللاجئات السوريات والفلسطينيات في ألمانيا، الدراما التلفزيونية السورية ما بعد 2011 وغيرها. تعمل ايزيس في لجنة تحرير مجلة International Feminist Journal of Politics. كما وعملت سابقا كباحثة لحقوق المرأة في الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا ضمن مؤسسة Human Rights Watch، وضمن شبكة Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network. سماح عباس: مرأة فلسطينية ولدت في قانا الجليل في شمال فلسطين المحتلة. تسكن القدس منذ سنوات. أنهت بإمتياز لقبها الأول ولقب ماجستير من الجامعة العبرية في القدس في الخدمة الاجتماعية العلاجية وتخصصت في الدراسات النسوية. أطروحة الماجستير خاصتها ركزت على دراسة تجربة الإعاقة اليومية لدى الفلسطينيين المقدسيين البالغين مع اعاقة بصرية و/أو حركية. فيها إرتكزت سماح على شهادات 15 مشارك/ة واستعانت بحقول معرفية نقدية مثل دراسات الإعاقة العالمية، النظرية النسوية، البرادايم الاستعماري الاستيطاني وغيرها. سماح ناشطة نسوية وناشطة في مجال حقوق الأشخاص مع إعاقة، وتعمل اليوم كأخصائية مٌعالجة لأطفال متضرري الصدمات الجنسية في القدس.

What has Security in Context achieved in the past two years? And what does the future hold for the project? In this episode, we hear from some of the key people leading Security in Context’s research network, including: Omar Dahi, Project Director of Security in Context and Economics Professor at Hampshire College; Shana Marshall, Associate Director of the Institute for Middle East Studies and Assistant Research Faculty member at the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs; Pete Moore, Associate Professor of Politics at Case Western Reserve University; Lisa Hajjar, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Firat Demir, Professor of Economics at the University of Oklahoma and co-director of University of Oklahoma's Center for Peace and Development; Rabie Nasser, economist, researcher and co-founder of the Syrian Center for Policy Research; and Fernando Brancoli, Assistant Professor of International Security and Geopolitics at the Institute of International Relations and Defense at the University of Rio de Janeiro.

Shahram Aghamir speaks with Nima Tootkaboni, who led an organization called Students for Equality and Freedom in Iran during the 2000s, about the current situation in Iran and how it compares to his experiences in the past. Nima Tootkaboni is a former student activist and a Ph.D. student in sociology at the Johns Hopkins University. Courtesy of Voices of the Middle East & North Africa (VOMENA).

Hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested in facial recognition, surveillance tools and internet technology to monitor the Iranian population, block or slow down the internet, suppress dissent and cover up the regime's widespread violent suppression of recent protests. Amir Rashidi, Director of Digital Rights and Security at Miaan Group, spoke with Malihe Razazan about this subject. Courtesy of Voices of the Middle East & North Africa (VOMENA).

During COP27, Egyptian authorities put their best foot forward to present a respectable image of the current regime, which, despite its bleak human rights record, would have the world believe that its treatment of plants and animals exceeds the way it treats its own citizens. Rights groups estimate Egypt now holds some 60,000 political prisoners, including Alaa Abdel Fattah, a British Egyptian writer and democracy activist who has been in prison for more than nine years. According to the Guardian, Alaa has been on hunger strike for well over 200 days. Since late May, he has been limiting himself to 100 calories a day – a teaspoon of honey and a bit of milk to keep him alive – but as of Nov 2nd, he returned to fully refusing food. Khalil Bendib spoke with Berlin based exiled journalist and democracy activist Hossam El-Hamalawy about Egypt’s horrific human rights and environmental record since the 2013 coup. Is the Sinai peninsula such a suitable venue for a worldwide meeting on climate change? Courtesy of Voices of the Middle East & North Africa (VOMENA).

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