Events-past

Monday, May 15 2023, 5:30-7:30 pm – Innis Town Hall Theatre

The Toronto Palestine Film Festival, in collaboration with Hearing Palestine, Cinema Studies Institute, Urban Studies Program, and the Centre for the Study of the United States, presents their annual Nakba commemoration.

Rashid Masharawi’s documentary Recovery transports us to the Palestinian port-city of Jaffa, where the director’s father was forced to abandon in 1948. Saree Maksidi, author of Tolerance is a Wasteland, joins us to discuss his new book Tolerance is a Wasteland, and remember the tragedy of the Nakba.

Light food and drink will be provided, and books, including Maksidi’s, will be available for sale.

Thursday, April 27, 4:00 pm, Massey College

Join a special book launch event for Systemic Islamophobia in Canada: A Research Agenda, edited by Dr. Anver M. Emon.

Thursday April 13, 2023 – 6:30 pm ET

Hosted by the Health Workers Alliance for Palestine, Dr. Askalan – a Pediatric Neurologist and Neuroscientist – will speak on the landscape of health in Palestine and the challenges imposed on healthcare delivery by Apartheid.

April 10th 12pm-1:30pm

This Hearing Palestine event is an initial consultation being run by Profs. Rania Salem and Alejandro Paz about the difficulties of speaking about Palestine at UofT.

Wednesday, April 5, 2023, 2:00-4:00 pm – Natalie Zemon Davis Room in Sidney Smith Hall, SS2098

Sponsored by Hearing Palestine, the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations (NMC – UofT) and the Department of History (UofT), join us for Dr. Elhalaby’s in-person talk From the Outside In: Palestine and Global History.