University of Pittsburgh

For educators studying the urgent and long standing questions of education and Palestine. 2nd of 2 virtual book discussion
March 25, 2025 6 - 8 PM EST
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd

Sponsored by the Kinloch Commons for Critical Pedagogy and Leadership at the University of Pittsburgh

Register Sabina Vaught svaught@pitt.edu

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*Note this is in Pacific Standard Time*
Dr. Amir Aziz investigates the decades-long history of FBI informant programs in the U.S. that attempt to recruit Arab, Palestinian, Muslim, and South-West Asian and North African (SWANA) migrants to serve as counter-terrorism intelligence informants and spy on their communities. FBI agents ply migrants, all with vulnerable immigration status, with false promises of immigration relief and employ deportation threats to coax them into becoming ‘compliant’ informants.

The Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding is hosting Dr. Nadia Oweidat, Assistant Professor at Kansas State University, for a Book Talk on Reform and Its Perils in Contemporary Islam: The Case of Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd on March 13th at Noon in the ACMCU Boardroom (ICC 270).

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The Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID) invites scholars, policymakers, and practitioners to submit papers for its 23rd Annual Conference. This year’s theme examines the urgent need to defend democracy in Muslim-majority countries amid rising authoritarianism worldwide. We seek submissions that explore the role of democratic governance in ensuring political stability, economic development, and human rights.

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In this discussion, scholars who focus on the US relationship to Israel and Palestine will discuss the changing views of Israel in the US and globally. The conversation will explore both historical examples and contemporary politics, drawing in part of the contributions of Amy Kaplan‘s crucial study, Our American Israel: The Story of An Entangled Alliance (2018), now released in paperback. Kaplan (1953-2020) was an award-winning scholar of US imperialism and a human rights activist.

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