Join us as we commemorate seventy-one years since the Nakba – the loss of the Palestinian homeland and the expulsion of some 750,000 Palestinians during Israel’s establishment – with a teach-in at The People’s Forum. The event will examine the ongoing process of land theft, cartographic manipulation and mass incarceration from the early twentieth century to the present day. We will approach this teach-in with a grounding in mapping practices in Palestine-Israel and the legal and material conditions of Palestinian political prisoners, and we will hear personal accounts of imprisonment.
Zena Agha is an Iraqi-Palestinian writer and analyst born in London, currently based in New York. Her work examines immigration, war and life in the diaspora. Zena’s poems have been translated and published internationally and she has performed at universities and festivals around the US, UK and France. She founded … Read More ›
Randa Wahbe is a graduate student in anthropology at Harvard University and a member of Al-Shabaka Palestinian Policy Network. Her research focuses on how Palestinian dead bodies are exploited by the Israeli state to facilitate its settler-colonial expansion. Before starting her PhD, Randa coordinated international advocacy efforts for Addameer Prisoner … Read More ›
