Public Events & Webinars

In this video, Security in Context's Anita Fuentes interviews Inès Abdel Razek, Co-Director of the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy (PIPD) and its digital platform Rabet, about Gaza, Palestinian solidarity, and the quest for justice amid genocide from Israel.

The expert panel, including Nidal Al-Azraq, Dr. Hani Murad, moderated by Nora Lester Murad, delves into the history of state-sponsored genocide by Israel against the Palestinians, examining both the long-standing "slow genocide" and its intensification post-October 7, 2023.

Pro-Palestinian voices are often misrepresented and vilified by media outlets, perpetuating harmful stereotypes. Meanwhile, Israeli voices and policies are given far more airtime and far less criticism.

The Southern Centre for Inequality Studies and WISER hosted a special session of the African Political Economy Seminar with Tareq Baconi, on 14 May 2024 Tareq Baconi is Board President of Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network. He serves as book review editor for the Journal of Palestine Studies. Currently, Tareq is working on a book about decolonization in the 21st century.

Palestinian speakers and artists discuss and share their stories, experiences and responses to the act of the Nakba in 1948 and highlight how it continues to this day with Israel's brutal genocide in Gaza.

The webinar will discuss the Hamas movement, its history and development, to make sense of what the events of 7 October 2024 were about.

Listen to this conversation with Dr. Tareq Baconi to discuss the controversial conclusions he made in his book, Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance: What does he argue? How did he reach these conclusions? And how is his book perceived by the different audiences?

Yara Hawari joins Brighton & Hove Palestine Solidarity Campaign to discuss mainstream Western media coverage of the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Al-Shabaka analyst Muhannad Ayyash joins the Centre for Humanities Research, UWC.

Fathi Nimer joins SAJFP, Wits PSC and Wupac to speak on urban planning, infrastructure, and housing inequality in Palestine and South Africa.