Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies Spring newsletter: We are All Palestinians

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

We are pleased to present the Fall-Spring issue of the CCAS Newsmagazine, which we chose to dedicate to our engagement with Palestine. Beyond its academic mission, CCAS seeks to respond to current events in the region, and after the attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 and the subsequent war on Gaza, members of our community quickly mobilized to support one another and to organize events providing history, context, and analysis about the conflict. This issue highlights some of these efforts and also showcases the related work of our alums—from academic research on transcontinental solidarity between Palestinians and Black Power activists and the history of scholasticide in Gaza, to on-the-ground fieldwork investigating human rights abuses in Israel and Palestine. The issue also features reflections by CCAS faculty on the unique challenges of teaching in a time of war, including fostering safe and open dialogue and responding to student needs.

There are several ways to read this issue of the CCAS Newsmagazine:
• As a visual magazine on Issuu
• As a PDF that you can read or download here
• On the CCAS website by clicking the individual articles below
• As a hard copy, which you can pick up at the CCAS office

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FEATURE ARTICLES
• Teaching in a Time of War
Professors Nader Hashemi, Jonathan Lincoln, and Fida Adely, each of whom direct academic centers within the School of Foreign Service, discuss what it means to educate and care for students in this present moment.

• Teaching Israel Palestine
CCAS Instructors Khaled Elgindy and Yousef Munayyer reflect on their experiences of teaching about the Israel-Palestine conflict even as it continues to evolve.

• Palestinian Pasts in the Present
Professor Rochelle Davis writes about how the destruction of Gaza—its lives, its history, and its present—is also a destruction of the future.

• Black Power and Palestine
MAAS alum Michael Fischbach discusses his research on connections between the Black Freedom movement of 1960s America and the Palestinian struggle for liberation.

• Scholasticide in Gaza
MAAS alum Samar Saeed shares her research on the fidayeen revolutionaries and Israel's continued colonial policy of eradicating Palestinian knowledge.

SPECIAL STORIES
• Minds in Exile
In this Q&A, CCAS Qatar Postdoctoral Fellow Adey Almohsen discusses his work to historicize Palestinian thought in the years between the Nakba and the Six Day War.

• Revisiting Gaza Ghetto
Student Shifaa Alsairafi explores how the first documentary on Gaza, co-produced by CCAS Professor Joan Mandell forty years ago, provides an historical record for daily life under occupation.

• Dispatches: On the Forefront of Human Rights
Read about MAAS alum Omar Shakir, who has spent his career documenting and calling out mass atrocities committed against Palestinians.

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