Ussama Makdisi (University of California, Berkeley), Professor of History, Chancellor’s Chair, May Ziadeh Chair in Palestinian and Arab Studies Date: November 7 Time: 12pm-2pm Location: William Doo Auditorium Register Here Co-Sponsored by: UTSC Departments of Anthropology; Arts, Culture and Media; Language Studies; English; Historical and Cultural Studies; Human Geography; Sociology Also FAS Institute of Islamic Studies and […]
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[Nov 6, 2025] Launch of Esmat Elhalaby’s Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization
Find the book here Speakers: Esmat Elhalaby in Conversation with Ussama Makdisi University of California, Berkeley, Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair, May Ziadeh Chair in Palestinian and Arab Studies Durba Mitra Harvard University, Richard B. Wolf Associate Professor in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Date: November 6 Time: 1:00–3:00 PM Location: KW130, University of Toronto Scarborough1265 Military […]

Raz Segal’s Oct 16th Event: Palestine, International Law, and Canada in Law school
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Welcome to Yara Sa’di-Ibraheem, Postdoctoral Fellow
The Hearing Palestine Initiative welcomes Dr. Sa’di-Ibraheem to a two-year postdoctoral fellowship, the first of its kind at the University of Toronto, with the support of the Faculty of Arts and Science and the Institute of Islamic Studies. Dr. Yara Sa’di-Ibraheem, specialises in political geography, with research interests that include indigenous geographies and temporalities, settler […]

[March 28, 2025] Decolonizing the Study of Palestine, After Elia Zureik
Book Launch and Panel With Ahmad Sa’di, Mary Zureik, David Lyon and more. Date: March 28th Time: 2-4 PM Registration link to come.