‘Hearing Palestine’ is an intellectual hub at the University of Toronto that centers the study of Palestine and facilitates advanced interdisciplinary research on Palestine, past, present, and future.

Tuesday, November 29 2022, 5:30PM – 7:30PM. Event Overview:Students from Dr. Chandni Desai’s course, CSE445: Rethinking Palestine: Colonialism, Revolution and Transnational Solidarity, shared their creative works. Dr. Abdel Razzaq Takriti presented the keynote lecture for the night.

Tuesday, November 15 2022, 4:00PM – 6:00PM. Event Overview:     Dr. Chandni Desai hosts Dr. Uri Davis for an event organized for her course, CSE445: Rethinking Palestine: Colonialism, Revolution and Transnational Solidarity. Davis presented a lecture on his book, The JNF/KKL: A Charity Complicit with Ethnic Cleansing.

Monday, November 7 2022, 6:00PM. Event Overview:The Hearing Palestine Initiative, the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association, and Human Rights Watch Canada held the ACLA Annual Soiree in November hosting Omar Shakir, Human Rights Watch’s Israel/Palestine director and author of HRW’s Israeli Apartheid report.

Event Overview:The Institute for Palestine Studies held a conference at Birzeit University on the political history and implications of the British Mandate. The conference was co-sponsored by all the Centers for Palestine Studies, including Hearing Palestine, and there were panels organized by the co-founders, Dr. Alejandro Paz and Jens Hanssen.

Thursday, October 27 2022, 6:00PM – 8:00PM. Event Overview:Censure UofT hosted Dr. Nadia Abu El-Haj for their Inaugural Annual Lecture on “Facts, Speech, and Censorship: A View from the Question of Palestine.” Dr. 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 […]