Palestine Studies at University of Toronto
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
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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 Tri-Campus History.
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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 Scarborough
1265 Military Trail, Toronto
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 Tri-Campus History.
Register here
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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 colonialism, neoliberal urbanism, and infrastructure, focusing on the Middle East, particularly Palestine. Her main research explores socio-political dimensions of infrastructure in colonial settings— principally telecommunications and playgrounds—as well as neoliberal planning under settler colonialism and the spatial-temporal experiences of indigenous communities.
A selected list of her publications includes:
Sa’di-Ibraheem, Y. & Wilkof S. (2025). Cabling and Un-cabling Palestine/Israel: Toward a Theory of Cumulative Infrastructural Injustice. Political Geography.
Sa’di-Ibraheem, Y. (2021). Privatizing the production of settler colonial landscapes: ‘Authenticity’ and imaginative geography in Wadi Al-Salib, Haifa. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39(4), 686-704.
Sa’di-Ibraheem, Y. (2021). Indigenous Wanderers in a Fortress Campus: Spatial Experiences of Palestinian Students at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Holy Land and Palestine Studies. 20(2), 123-145.
Sa’di-Ibraheem, Y. (2020). Jaffa’s times: Temporalities of dispossession and the advent of natives’ reclaimed time. Time & Society, 29(2), 340-361.
Discussion and Response from Prof. Ariel Katz (U of Toronto, Law)
Mon, Feb 24, 2025 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
Fateh Azzam Is a Palestinian human rights researcher and consultant. His professional experience spanned work in civil society, philanthropy, academia and the United Nations, having served as founding director of the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship at the American University of Beirut, Middle East Regional Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, director of the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Program at the American University in Cairo and director of the Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq. He volunteers as Board Chair of Visualizing Palestine and member of the Advisory Board for the Institute for Statelessness and Inclusion in The Hague. Fateh has published studies and book chapters on human rights and humanitarian law, the responsibility to protect, the Arab and Palestinian human rights movement and citizenship in Palestine and the Arab region. He is also author of two plays, Ansar and Baggage, and most recently adapted and co-Directed The Gaza Monologues in Maine where he lives.