Palestine and the Logic of Denial
Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/23/2023
6:10 pm
Location
Heyman Center for the Humanities
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- Book Discussion
- Book Talk
- Books
- Books/Literature
- Palestine
- Palestinian
- Palestinian Culture
- Palestinian Stories
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Join the Center for Palestine Studies and the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities for a talk by Saree Makdisi about his recent book, Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial (University of California Press, 2022). Introduction by Nadia Abu El-Haj.
The question that Tolerance Is a Wasteland aims to answer might seem simple: how can a violent project of dispossession and discrimination be imagined, felt, and profoundly believed in as though it were the exact opposite––an embodiment of sustainability, multicultural tolerance, and democratic idealism? Despite well-documented evidence of racism and human rights abuse, Israel has long been embraced by the most liberal sectors of European and American society as a manifestation of the progressive values of tolerance, plurality, inclusivity, and democracy, and hence a project that can be passionately defended for its lofty ideals.
For more info about Tolerance Is a Wasteland, click here.
Saree Makdisi is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA. His most recent book is Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial (2022). His other books include Reading William Blake (2015), Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race and Imperial Culture (2014); and Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (2010).
Nadia Abu El-Haj is Ann Whitney Olin Professor in the Departments of Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University and Co-Director of the Center for Palestine Studies.
Notes about the Venue
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