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:32283@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit;VALUE=DATE:20240430 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit;VALUE=DATE:20240501 DTSTAMP:20240220T044056Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/zionism-liberalism-and-genocide-gaz a-lecture-series/ SUMMARY:Zionism\, Liberalism and Genocide: Gaza Lecture Series DESCRIPTION:\nAbout this event\n \;\n\n\n\n 2 hours\n Mobile eTicket\ n\n \;\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSince October 10th\, we here at Busboys and Poets Books have been watching with horror as the siege on Gaza continues and th e civilian death count rises day by day. In partnership with Georgetown Un iversity’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies\, African Studies Progra m &\; Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding\, we present The Gaza Lecture Series of 2024. We invite everyone to come and learn more about t he history of settler colonialism\, violence\, and genocide in Palestine. Join us for this session to hear more about zionism\, liberalism\, and the complicity in this modern day genocide.\n\nHistorian Dr. Ussama Makdisi i s joining us on the Busboys stage to share his scholarly and personal expe riences surrounding Israeli mass violence in Palestinian territories. He ’ll be joined by Dr. Nader Hashemi\, Associate Professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics at Georgetown University. There will be a specially c urated selection of books about Palestine\, the Palestine Israeli 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\, an d will be followed by an audience Q&\;A. Please note that this event i s in person and will not be livestreamed. \n\n \;\n\nWe ask that gues ts RSVP in order to receive direct updates about the event from Busboys an d Poets Books\n\n \;\n\nDr. Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History an d Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley. He was pr eviously Professor of History and the first holder of the Arab-American Ed ucational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University in Houston. In April 2009\, the Carnegie Corporation named Makdisi a 2009 Carnegie Sch olar as part of its effort to promote original scholarship regarding Musli m societies and communities\, both in the United States and abroad.  Makd isi was awarded the Berlin Prize and spent the Spring 2018 semester as a F ellow at the American Academy of Berlin. Professor Makdisi’s most recent book Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Mode rn Arab World was published in 2019 by the University of California Press . He is also the author of Faith Misplaced: the Broken Promise of U.S.-Ar ab Relations\, 1820-2001 (Public Affairs\, 2010).\n\n \;\n\nDr. Nader Hashemi is the Director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Unde rstanding and an Associate Professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics a t the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is the author of Islam\, Secularism and Liberal Democracy: Toward a De mocratic Theory for Muslim Societies (Oxford University Press\, 2009) and co-editor of The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle fo r Iran’s Future (Melville House\, 2011)\, The Syria Dilemma (MIT Pres s\, 2013)\, Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East  (Oxford University Press\, 2017) and a four-volume study on Islam and Hu man Rights: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies (Routledge\, 2023). His next book project is entitled: “The Global Divide over Israel and Pales tine.” He is also a Non-Resident Fellow at Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN).\n\n \;\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \;\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 024/02/Screen-Shot-2024-02-19-at-11.36.11-PM.png LOCATION:Busboys and Poets 450k\, 450 K St NW\, \, Washington\, District of Columbia \, DC\, 20001\, United States GEO:38.9022398;-77.01819039999998 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=450 K St NW\, \, Washington \, District of Columbia \, DC\, 20001\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X -TITLE=Busboys and Poets 450k:geo:38.9022398,-77.01819039999998 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