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SUMMARY:Gaza in Context: A Collaborative Teach-In Series
DESCRIPTION:Teach-In Session 21\n\nIn four months we've witnessed several m
 edia narratives from a "War on Terror" discourse to one that abets genocid
 e. This teach-in will address various aspects of the mainstream media cove
 rage of the War on Gaza in the “West\,” including traditional and new 
 media. Our speakers will reflect on the performance of media as they navig
 ate pressures from parent companies\, editorial policies\, political alleg
 iances\, and popular dissent. They will also analyze how the influential S
 unday news TV shows in the United States discussed Israel’s campaign aga
 inst Hamas in Gaza.\n\nGaza in Context Collaborative Teach-In Series\n\nWe
  are together experiencing a catastrophic unfolding of history as Gaza end
 ures a massive invasion of genocidal proportions. This accompanies an ince
 ssant bombardment of a population increasingly bereft of the necessities o
 f living in response to the Hamas attack in Israel on October 7. The conte
 xt within which this takes place includes a well-coordinated campaign of m
 isinformation and the unearthing of a multitude of essentialist and reduct
 ionist discursive tropes that dehumanize Palestinians as the culprits\, de
 spite a context of structural subjugation and Apartheid\, now a matter of 
 consensus in the human rights movement.\n\nThe co-organizers below are con
 vening weekly teach-ins and conversations on a host of issues that introdu
 ce our common university communities\, educators\, researchers\, and stude
 nts to the history and present of Gaza\, in context.\n\nCo-organizers: Ar
 ab Studies Institute\, Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary A
 rab Studies\, George Mason University’s Middle East and Islamic Studies 
 Program\, Rutgers Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, Birzeit University M
 useum\, Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, Brown University
 ’s Center for Middle East Studies\, University of Chicago’s Center for
  Contemporary Theory\, Brown University’s New Directions in Palestinian 
 Studies\, Georgetown University’s Center for Muslim-Christian Understand
 ing\, Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies\, 
 Georgetown University-Qatar\, American University in Cairo’s Alternative
  Policy Studies\, Middle East Studies’ Global Academy\, University of Ch
 icago’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, CUNY’s Middle East and Mid
 dle Eastern American Center\, George Mason University’s Center for Globa
 l Islamic Studies\, University of Illinois Ghicago’s Arab American Cultu
 ral Center\, George Washington University’s Institute for Middle East St
 udies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nwww.arabstudiesinstitute.org\ninfo@arabst
 udiesinstitute.org\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nView this email in your browser\n\n\n\n\
 n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGaza in Context:\nA C
 ollaborative Teach-In Series\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSession 21\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMedia Coverage
  of the War on Gaza:\nComplicity\, Duplicity\, Accountability\n\n\n\n\n\n\
 n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing\nWilliam Lafi Youmans\nLaila Al-Arian\nAdel
  Iskandar\n\nIn conversation with\nBassam Haddad\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
 \n\n\nThursday\, 8 February 2024\n1:00 PM EST | 8:00 PM Palestine \nLIVE 
 ON: YOUTUBE.COM/JADALIYYA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nwww.palestineincontext.org\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTeach-In Session 21\n\nIn four months we've wi
 tnessed several media narratives from a "War on Terror" discourse to one t
 hat abets genocide. This teach-in will address various aspects of the main
 stream media coverage of the War on Gaza in the “West\,” including tra
 ditional and new media. Our speakers will reflect on the performance of me
 dia as they navigate pressures from parent companies\, editorial policies\
 , political allegiances\, and popular dissent. They will also analyze how 
 the influential Sunday news TV shows in the United States discussed Israel
 ’s campaign against Hamas in Gaza.\n\nGaza in Context Collaborative Teac
 h-In Series\n\nWe are together experiencing a catastrophic unfolding of hi
 story as Gaza endures a massive invasion of genocidal proportions. This ac
 companies an incessant bombardment of a population increasingly bereft of 
 the necessities of living in response to the Hamas attack in Israel on Oct
 ober 7. The context within which this takes place includes a well-coordina
 ted campaign of misinformation and the unearthing of a multitude of essent
 ialist and reductionist discursive tropes that dehumanize Palestinians as 
 the culprits\, despite a context of structural subjugation and Apartheid\,
  now a matter of consensus in the human rights movement.\n\nThe co-organiz
 ers below are convening weekly teach-ins and conversations on a host of is
 sues that introduce our common university communities\, educators\, resear
 chers\, and students to the history and present of Gaza\, in context.\n\nC
 o-organizers: Arab Studies Institute\, Georgetown University’s Center f
 or Contemporary Arab Studies\, George Mason University’s Middle East and
  Islamic Studies Program\, Rutgers Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, Bir
 zeit University Museum\, Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, B
 rown University’s Center for Middle East Studies\, University of Chicago
 ’s Center for Contemporary Theory\, Brown University’s New Directions 
 in Palestinian Studies\, Georgetown University’s Center for Muslim-Chris
 tian Understanding\, Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Comparative Mu
 slim Studies\, Georgetown University-Qatar\, American University in Cairo
 ’s Alternative Policy Studies\, Middle East Studies’ Global Academy\, 
 University of Chicago’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, CUNY’s Mid
 dle East and Middle Eastern American Center\, George Mason University’s 
 Center for Global Islamic Studies\, University of Illinois Ghicago’s Ara
 b American Cultural Center\, George Washington University’s Institute fo
 r Middle East Studies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\
 n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFEATURING\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
 \n\n\n\nLaila Al-Arian is a Washington DC-based journalist and the execut
 ive producer of Fault Lines\, an award-winning current affairs program on 
 Al Jazeera English. She has produced documentaries on subjects ranging fro
 m the Trump administration's Muslim ban to the impact of the heroin epidem
 ic on children and an investigation into factory conditions producing garm
 ents for Walmart and Gap in Bangladesh. For her work\, she has been honore
 d with two News and Documentary Emmys\, a George Polk Award\, Peabody Awar
 d\, a Robert F Kennedy Award in journalism\, Overseas Press Club award and
  has been nominated for 19 News and Documentary Emmys. She is co-author of
  the book Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians.\n\nAde
 l Iskandar is an Associate Professor of Global Communication at Simon Fra
 ser University in Vancouver/Burnaby\, Canada. He is the author\, co-author
 \, and editor of several works including "Egypt In Flux: Essays on an Unfi
 nished Revolution" (AUCP/OUP)\; "Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that
  is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism" (Basic Books)\;
  "Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation" (University of
  California Press)\; "Mediating the Arab Uprisings" (Tadween Publishing)\;
  and "Media Evolution on the Eve of the Arab Spring" (Palgrave Macmillan).
  Iskandar's work deals with media\, identity and politics\; and he has lec
 tured extensively on these topics at universities worldwide. His forthcomi
 ng publications are two monographs\, one addressing the political role of 
 memes and digital satire and the other about contemporary forms of imperia
 l transculturalism. Iskandar's engaged participatory research includes sup
 porting knowledge production through scholarly digital publishing such as 
 "Jadaliyya" and academic podcasting such as "Status." Prior to his arrival
  at SFU\, Iskandar taught at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and 
 the Communication\, Culture\, and Technology Program at Georgetown Univers
 ity\, in Washington\, DC.\n\nWilliam Lafi Youmans is an Associate Profess
 or at George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs. H
 e is also the director of the Institute of Public Diplomacy and Global Com
 munication at GWU. Broadly interested in questions of transnationalism\, p
 ower and communication\, his primary research interests include global new
 s\, media industries\, technology\, law and politics.\n\nBassam Haddad (Mo
 derator) is Founding Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Pro
 gram and Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Governmen
 t at George Mason University. He is the author of Business Networks in 
 Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford Univer
 sity Press\, 2011) and co-editor of A Critical Political Economy of the 
 Middle East (Stanford University Press\, 2021). Bassam is Co-Founder/Edi
 tor of Jadaliyya Ezine and Executive Director of the Arab Studies Insti
 tute. He serves as Founding Editor of the Arab Studies Journal and the
  Knowledge Production Project. He is co-producer/director of the award-wi
 nning documentary film\, About Baghdad\, and director of the acclaimed se
 ries Arabs and Terrorism. Bassam serves on the Board of the Arab Council
  for the Social Sciences and is Executive Producer of Status Audio Maga
 zine and Director of the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI)
 . He received MESA's Jere L. Bacharach Service Award in 2017 for his se
 rvice to the profession. Currently\, Bassam is working on his second Syri
 a book titled Understanding the Syrian Calamity: Regime\, Opposition\, Ou
 tsiders (forthcoming\, Stanford University Press).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\
 n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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