The Center for the Study of Women and Society
presents:
Feminist Perspectives on Resistance and Solidarity in Palestine and Israel
Rabab Abdulhadi and Simona Sharoni met over twenty five years ago and have collaborated on multiple projects. They will discuss the following topics: the distorted dominant media coverage of the assault which ignored the power disparities between Palestinians and Israel; the racist and gendered images and statements deployed by Israeli officials and citizens to legitimize the violence; the impact of the violence on, and the responses of Palestinian and Israeli women; the response of the international community and the growing visibility and impact of the global movement of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS), the efforts to hold Israeli officials accountable and investigate possible violations of human rights and international conventions; and prospects for a just and lasting peace in the region in the aftermath of the Israeli war on Gaza and the earlier repressive campaign in the West Bank.
Friday, February 27, 2015
3:00-5:00pm
Room C201
The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Rabab Abdulhadi is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies/Race and Resistance Studies and the Senior Scholar of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative at the College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University. She is a co-founder of the Islamophobia Studies Journal, the Union of Palestinian Women’s Associations in North America (UPWA), and the Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC).
Simona Sharoni is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the State University of New York in Plattsburgh. Sharoni is the founding Executive Director of the Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA), a founding member of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section (FTGS) at the International Studies Association (ISA), and co-founder of Faculty Against Rape (FAR).
Co-sponsored with the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics.
The event is free and open to the public.
For more information see the Women’s Studies website: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/womencenter\
