LIFTA x CPS presents 'Palestinian Feminist Discourses: Contemporary Views and Emerging Movements’, a live panel as part of the program 'Palestine, IN-BETWEEN'. Joining us from Gaza, Haifa, and Ramallah, the panel introduces new feminist movements that are gaining momentum across historic Palestine. It's a discussion highlighting shared desires and the varying approaches to organizing and…

In the waning hours of the Trump Administration, the Israeli government issued a significant slate of last-minute settlement approvals, including granting a tender for the construction of an East Jerusalem settlement (Givat Hamatos) long understood to be a “doomsday” settlement by those advocating for a two-state solution. Given the centrality of Jerusalem to the Israeli-Palestinian…

This online seminar will explore the regional outlook of Israel, Palestine and the broader Middle East. It takes into consideration four years of the Trump administration siding firmly with the Netanyahu government in Israel, including support for de jure annexation of further Palestinian land; regional peace agreements signed between Israel and Arab states, for the…

The Arab Revolutions of 2010-11 reinvigorated social movement transformations across the Middle East and North Africa, giving voice to a multiplicity of silenced and marginalised constituencies. Occupations of space as a strategy to reclaim the public commons from neoliberal corporatisation and authoritarian governance has since inspired close to a decade of social movement mobilization across…

L'arrivée de Joe Biden à la Maison Blanche a suscité un mouvement d'espoir en Palestine. Le geste que le leadership palestinien attend et qui pourrait être fait est la réouverture d'une antenne diplomatique auprès des Palestiniens à Jérusalem-Est. Mais le peuple palestinien sait qu'il ne sera libéré, ni par les Américains, ni par les Européens.…

This roundtable focuses on environmental justice, analysing the ways in which approaches to environmental studies—across disciplines ranging from international law to geography and urban planning—have traditionally overlooked and under-emphasised the critical roles of communities directly impacted by environmental injustice.

ESCWA and Al-Shabaka held a public webinar on the occasion of the observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Participants will provide an overview of donor approaches to aid in Gaza, the prospects of development under the blockade and ways to reinvent aid.

The people of the United States have spoken — and the world is told to listen. From sanctions to structural adjustment, patent protections to climate negotiations, military engagement to international trade, the policies of the United States president have an impact far beyond the country's borders. Joe Biden will be inaugurated into office in January 2021. But what will this mean for the rest of the world? What will change? And just as important, what will stay the same?

Senior Palestine Policy Fellow, Yara Hawari, joins this important policy roundtable convened by the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights about what it means for Palestinians to claim their right to narrate, to tell their stories, and to speak back with clear demands for an end to US complicity in Palestinian oppression.

After more than 70 years since the founding of the state of Israel and dispersal and dispossession of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, more than 50 years of occupation and de facto annexation, and more than 25 years since the Oslo Accords, there is a critical need for thinking that moves beyond failed paradigms and challenges status quo assumptions.