Palestinian History Between Past and Present
Panel Discussion
3:00 pm–5:00 pm
Laura al-Tibi (Columbia University)
Thayer Hastings (American University)
Shireen Akram-Boshar (University of Houston)
Jeremy Randall (CUNY Graduate Center)
Keynote: Nasser Abourahme in Conversation with Nadia Abu El-Haj
5:30 pm–7:30 pm
Nasser Abourahme is Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at Bowdoin College and the author of The Time beneath the Concrete: Palestine between Camp and Colony (2025).
Nadia Abu El-Haj is Ann Whitney Olin Professor in the Departments of Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University, Co-Director of the Center for Palestine Studies, and Chair of the Governing Board of the Society of Fellows/Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University. She also serves as Vice President and Vice Chair of the Board at The Institute for Palestine Studies in Washington DC.
Header photograph by Moayed Abu Ammouna.
This event is free and open to the public. It is organized by PhD students in the History Department at the CUNY Graduate Center and cosponsored by the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics.