BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:37334@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261013T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261013T200000 DTSTAMP:20261007T035532Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/ghassan-kanafani-palestinian-resist ance-literature-under-occupation-launch/ SUMMARY:Ghassan Kanafani: Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupatio n launch DESCRIPTION:Rashid Khalidi\, Eman Abdelhadi &\;Nadine Naber launching th e first english translation of Kanafani's text on Palestinian resistance l iterature\n\n\n\nWe are delighted to welcome Rashid Khalidi to Chicago for a conversation with Eman Abdelhadi and Nadine Naber to launch the first e nglish translation of Ghassan Kanafani's Palestinian Resistance Literatur e Under Occupation 1948-68.\n\nGhassan Kanafani’s remarkable extended es say Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation\, 1948–1968 is an unyielding act of cultural and political endurance. Writing in the wake of Israel’s devastating territorial expansion in 1967\, Kanafani elabor ates his theory of resistance literature and offers a visceral account of life under occupation. Translated for the first time into English by one o f the greatest living translators from Arabic to English\, Tarif Khalidi\, Kanafani’s essay offers one of the sharpest social and political analys es of life in Palestine in this early period of occupation. In the two dec ades following the Nakba\, Palestinian writers undertook the gruelling tas k of advancing a cultural struggle to protect their language\, culture\, a nd heritage. Join us for a conversation about this newly translated text a nd its relevance to the continued struggle for Palestinian liberation.\n\n This event is co-hosted by Pilsen Community Books\, Al-Hambra Palace and t he Palestinian Youth Movement.\n\nDoors will open at 6:30pm\, the event wi ll start at 7pm.\n\nRashid Khalidi is Edward Said Professor Emeritus of A rab Studies at Columbia University. He received a B.A. from Yale Universit y and a D. Phil. from Oxford University\, and taught at the Lebanese Unive rsity\, the American University of Beirut\, and the University of Chicago. He was editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies\, and served as Presid ent of the Middle East Studies Association. He has authored ten books\, mo st recently The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-C olonialism and Resistance\, 1917-2017\; Palestine: A Primer\; and\, with Tariq Ali\, The Neck and the Sword: Palestine’s Unfinished Struggle. He is completing a book on how British counter-insurgency practices employed in interwar Ireland and Palestine shaped Israeli military doctrine.\n\nEm an Abdelhadi is a Chicago-based scholar\, organizer\, and writer. She is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and autho r of the forthcoming Impossible Futures: Why Women Leave Muslim Communiti es (University of Chicago Press). With M.E. O'Brien\, she co-edited the f orthcoming science fiction anthology When We Win: Dispatches from Revolut ionary Futures (Haymarket Press\, June 2027) and co-authored the novel E verything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052–20 72 (Common Notions\, 2022). Together they also co-edit the revolutionary fiction website Project 2052. Her scholarship\, poetry\, short stories\, a nd essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. A long-time organizer\, she is currently active in Scholars for Justice\, Faculty & \; Staff for Justice in Palestine\, and the AAUP at the University of Chic ago.\n\nNadine Naber is a Professor and Director of Gender and Women’s Studies at UIC. She is co-founder and co-director of Mamas Activating Move ments for Abolition and Solidarity (MAMAS) and Board member of the Arab Am erican Action Network and the Journal of Palestine Studies. She is the au thor/editor of six books such as Arab America: Gender\, Activism\, and Be longing (NYU\, 2012)\; Radical Mothering (Haymarket 2026)\; Arab and A rab American Feminisms (Syracuse 2011)\; and the Color of Violence (Sou th End Press 2006).\n\n\n\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/ghassan-kanafani-p alestinian-resistance-literature-under-occupation-launch-tickets-200264861 2911?aff=ebdssbdestsearchhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/ghassan-kanafani-pal estinian-resistance-literature-under-occupation-launch-tickets-20026486129 11?aff=ebdssbdestsearch ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 026/10/image-18.webp LOCATION:Alhambra Palace Chicago\, 1240 West Randolph Street \, Chicago\, IL\, 60607\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS= 1240 West Randolph Street \, Chicago\, IL\, 60607\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Alhambr a Palace Chicago:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR