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Date(s) - Saturday, February 28, 2026
10:00 am - 11:30 am
TITLE: “Against Fragmentation: Palestinian Practices of Connection to Confront Erasure—and How They Inspire Solidarity in the US Today”
Despite closure, economic deprivation, and political threat, Palestinians in a refugee camp in the West Bank have insisted on staying connection with friends, colleagues and kin in Gaza, and on supporting each other. Witnessing and understanding these brave practices of connectedness can inspire practices of solidarity and support in the United States today.
About the Presenter:
Dr. Amahl Bishara is Professor, Anthropology and Professor, Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University. Her media interests are media, journalism, the Middle East, expressivity, human rights, knowledge production, democracy, and ethnography of place. Dr. Bishara’s research revolves around expression, space, media, and settler colonialism. She is presently working on a project that examines Palestinian popular politics in a West Bank refugee camp. It examines how Palestinians in this refugee camp strive to resist three authorities: the Israeli occupation, the Palestinian Authority administration, and the United Nations Relief Works Agency, through struggles over land, water, bodies, and expression.
This Zoom webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required. While many of our monthly webinars are recorded, this one will not be recorded.
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