Monday, January 30th, 2023 | 12pm ET/7pm Palestine Time

This is the first episode in a four-part series, "Learning and Unlearning Palestine," produced by Al-Shabaka in partnership with the Foundation for Middle East Peace. In this webinar, Nour Joudah and Dina Matar join moderator Maha Nassar to examine both the history and current reality of the erasure of the Palestinian narrative and delegitimization of Palestinian voices in mainstream spaces.

Nour Joudah completed her PhD in Geography at UCLA. She is currently the UC Presidential Postdoctoral fellow at UC-Berkeley. Nour's work examines mapping practices and indigenous survival and futures in settler states, highlighting how indigenous countermapping is a both cartographic and decolonial praxis.

Dina Matar is Professor of Political Communication at SOAS, University of London, where she is also chair of the Centre for Palestine Studies. Her teaching and research are informed by a non-Western centric approach to addressing communication and politics, with a particular focus on the marginal and the periphery.

Maha Nassar is an associate professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona, where she specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of the modern Arab world. Her award-winning book, Brothers Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World (Stanford University Press, 2017), examines how Palestinian intellectuals connected to global decolonization movements during the mid-twentieth century.