Moustafa Bayoumi is a former student of Edward Said and an award-winning author, journalist, and professor. Bayoumi explored the Question of Palestine, offering insights shaped by his time learning directly from Edward Said.

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Massad spoke at the Islamaphobia Studies Center in Berkeley California.

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KTVU News footage from 1967 featuring a press conference with Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (then known as H. Rap Brown), who discusses non-violence, self-defense and freedom. He states that: "We have always had a strong position that individuals are given a God-given right to defend themselves. And what's more they're protected within the framework of the law." He also goes on to declare how: "Freedom cannot be given. It's not, y'know, a welfare commodity. Freedom is something that has to be gotten and taken by the people who are oppressed." When one reporter asks Brown: "Do you have any philosphical differences with Mr [Stokely] Carmichael?" Brown replies: "Not that I know of and if I did, I wouldn't tell you."

Gil Noble hosted an interview program from 1968 to 2011 dedicated to interviewing modern black figures of humanity. This included H Rap Brown (Jamil Al-Amin)

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The Hamas leader speaks to Al Jazeera's Rawya Rageh about reconciling differences among various Palestinian factions.

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Join two journalists who have reported from the Middle East for outlets in the US and Canada for a live conversation on what it takes to make Western audiences care about the lives of people in places they can safely ignore.

Talk hosted by Oregon Humanities.

On March 12, 2025, VPL hosted a conversation with Omar El Akkad about his latest book, moderated by Adel Iskandar. -- description from event listing below -- On October 25 of 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad wrote online: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” This message was viewed over 10 million times. The award-winning writer has now expanded that idea into a book One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, where he calls out the hypocrisy of Western ideals, explores the rupture of the “rules-based-order”, and reckons with the implications of the war for all of us. Omar El Akkad will appear in conversation with SFU Professor Adel Iskandar. -- Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist. He was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Canada as a teenager and now lives in the United States. He is a two-time winner of both the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award and the Oregon Book Award. His books have been translated into 13 languages. His debut novel, American War, was named by the BBC as one of 100 novels that shaped our world; his second novel, What Strange Paradise, won the 2021 Giller Prize. Adel Iskandar is a Vancouver-based academic, activist, and public intellectual. He is currently an Associate Professor of Global Communication at Simon Fraser University, where he is also the Chair of Graduate Studies, and the Director of the Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies (CCMS). Iskandar is the author, co-author, and editor of several works including Egypt In Flux: Essays on an Unfinished Revolution; Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism; Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation; Mediating the Arab Uprisings; and Media Evolution on the Eve of the Arab Spring.

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@ The Good Life in L.A. 7/2/93

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Conversation in Detroit with Grace Lee Boggs & Danny Glover. Whose in town filming movie Highland Park. Part of {r}evolution series of Detroit Conversations 10-15-2009 Art & Activism

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The presentation depicts waste's constant returns. It thus challenges both common formulations of waste as "matter out of place" and as the ontological opposite of the environment, by suggesting instead that waste siege be understood as an ecology of "matter with no place to go." Waste siege thus not only describes a stateless Palestine, but also becomes a metaphor for our besieged planet. Based on the book, Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine, this presentation offers an analysis unusual in the study of Palestine: it begins with the environmental, infrastructural, and aesthetic context in which Palestinians forge their lives, naming that context a “waste siege.” The speaker argues that to speak of waste siege is to describe a series of conditions, from smelling wastes to negotiating military infrastructures, from biopolitical forms of colonial rule to experiences of governmental abandonment, from obvious targets of resistance to confusion over responsibility for the burdensome objects of daily life. She will focus on waste as an experience of everyday life that is continuous with, but not a result only of, occupation. Tracing Palestinians' experiences of wastes over the past decade, and their improvisations for mitigating the effects of this siege, and consider how multiple authorities governing the West Bank—including municipalities, the Palestinian Authority, international aid organizations, and Israel—rule by waste siege, whether intentionally or not.

Dr. Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Bard College. Her research centers around infrastructure, discard studies, environment, colonialism, austerity, platform capitalism, the Middle East, and Europe. Her first book, Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019), won the Middle East Studies Association’s Albert Hourani Book Award. It explores what happens when, as Palestinians are increasingly forced into proximity with their own wastes and with those of their occupiers, waste is transformed from “matter out of place,” per prevailing anthropological wisdom, into matter with no place to go—or its own ecology. Her new book project, Homing Austerity: Airbnb in Athens, investigates how Airbnb is transforming the relationship between subjectivity, real estate, and work in Greece as a way of understanding the joint world-making of austerity and platform capitalism. Other publications include pieces in International Journal of Middle East Studies; Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East; Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space; Jerusalem Quarterly; Anthropology News; New Centennial Review; and the Refugee Studies Centre Working Paper Series at the University of Oxford. Her film, Waste Underground (with videographer Ali al-Deek), premiered at the Sharjah Biennial in Ramallah in 2017. Her research has been awarded funding by the National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Columbia University, and Palestinian American Research Council. Sponsored by: Israel Institute Teaching Fellow, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and International Relations & Global Studies

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