BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:32255@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240321T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240321T200000 DTSTAMP:20240219T150923Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/what-was-hamas-thinking-gaza-lectur e-series/ SUMMARY:What Was Hamas Thinking?- Gaza Lecture Series DESCRIPTION:[caption id="attachment_245126" align="alignnone" width="300"] What Was Hamas Thinking?'s lecture promotional poster.[/caption]\n\n \ ;\n\nWASHINGTON DC.\n\nSince October 10th\, we here at Busboys and Poets B ooks have been watching with horror as the siege on Gaza continues and the civilian death count rises day by day. In partnership with Georgetown Uni versity’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies\, African Studies Program &\; Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding\, we present The Gaza Le cture Series of 2024. We invite everyone to come and learn more about the history of settler colonialism\, violence\, and genocide in Palestine. Joi n us for this session to learn more about Palestinian resistance and liber ation efforts (both historically and contemporary)\, how Hamas came to be\ , and what Palestinian resistance looks like moving forward.\n\nHistorian Tareq Baconi is joining us on the Busboys stage to share his scholarly and personal experiences surrounding Israeli mass violence in Palestinian ter ritories. He’ll be joined by Dr. Nader Hashemi\, Associate Professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics at Georgetown University. There will be a specially curated selection of books about Palestine\, the Palestine Isra eli conflict\, and the 1948 Nakba available for purchase during and after the program.\n\nThis event is free and open to all. Our program begins at 6:00 pm\, and will be followed by an audience Q&\;A. Please note that t his event is in person and will not be livestreamed. \n\nWe ask that gues ts RSVP in order to receive direct updates about the event from Busboys an d Poets Books\n\nTareq Baconi serves as the president of the board of Al-S habaka. He was Al-Shabaka's US Policy Fellow from 2016 - 2017. Tareq is th e former senior analyst for Israel/Palestine and Economics of Conflict at the International Crisis Group\, based in Ramallah\, and the author of Ham as Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance (Stanfor d University Press\, 2018). Tareq’s writing has appeared in the London R eview of Books\, the New York Review of Books\, the Washington Post\, amon g others\, and he is a frequent commentator in regional and international media. He is the book review editor for the Journal of Palestine Studies.\ n\nDr. Nader Hashemi is the Director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Chr istian Understanding and an Associate Professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown U niversity. He is the author of Islam\, Secularism and Liberal Democracy: T oward a Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies (Oxford University Press\, 2009) and co-editor of The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Str uggle for Iran’s Future (Melville House\, 2011)\, The Syria Dilemma (MIT Press\, 2013)\, Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East (Oxford University Press\, 2017) and a four-volume study on Islam and Human Rights: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies (Routledge\, 2023). Hi s next book project is entitled: “The Global Divide over Israel and Pale stine.” He is also a Non-Resident Fellow at Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN). ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 024/02/What-Was-Hamas-Thinking-Lecture-.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR