The Question of Palestine: War, Gaza, Justice

October 15, 2024, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm

CUNY Graduate Center, Rooms 9205/9206

Has war become the main feature of Israel’s military occupation of 1967? Reckoning with the tragic features of Israel’s unprecedented war on Gaza –triggered by Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attacks – this talk asks what this new conjuncture means for occupied Palestinians and the question of Palestine. Has justice been rolled back for another generation – or is there new hope?

Bashir Abu-Manneh is Reader in Postcolonial Literature in the School of Classics, English, and History, University of Kent (UK), and has served as Head of School from 2021 to 2024. He is author of The Palestinian Novel: From 1948 to the Present (2016) and Fiction of the New Statesman, 1913–1939 (2011). He has also edited a collection of articles on Edward Said entitled After Said: Postcolonial Literary Studies in the Twenty-First Century (2018). He writes regularly on Israel-Palestine for Jacobin magazine.

Marc Lamont Hill is a Presidential Professor of Urban Education and Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is a cultural anthropologist, critical policy scholar, and radical educator whose work explores issues of race, education, citizenship, and state violence in the United States and Middle East. Hill is the author of seven books, including Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics. He is also the host of UpFront on Al Jazeera English.

This event is sponsored by the Center for Place, Culture and Politics. It is free and open to the public