Wednesday, 23 June | 19:00–20:30
Place: ZOOM 

About the speakers:

Professor Karma Nabulsi is Tutor and Fellow in Politics at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford. Her research is on 18th and 19th century political thought, the laws of war, and the contemporary history and politics of Palestinian refugees and representation. She is the author of Traditions of War: Occupation, Resistance, and the Law (Oxford University Press, 2005). Karma directed a civic needs assessment for Palestinian refugees, and was editor of its findings: Palestinians Register: Laying Foundations and Setting Directions (2006). She went on to design and direct the civic voter registration for Palestinian refugees to their national parliament, from 2011-2016. She initiated and directed the Palestinian Revolution digital humanities project learnpalestine.politics.ox.ac.uk (2016), co-curating and co-authoring the website with Abdel Razzaq Takriti. The project was developed with scholars, museums, research institutes, and universities across the global south, providing a bilingual open-access research and teaching resource. The online course and research materials cover the Palestinian liberation movement, during the anti-colonial era of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. 

Professor Abdel Razzaq Takriti is the inaugural holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Arab History and the Founding Director of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Center for Arab Studies at the University of Houston. His research focuses on the history of revolutions, anticolonialism, global intellectual currents, and state-building in the modern Arab world. He is the author of Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman, 1965-1976 (Oxford University Press, 2013 and 2016) and co-author and co-curator, with Karma Nabulsi, of the Palestinian Revolution website. His research has appeared in a range of respected journals and scholarly venues including the American Historical Review and the Radical History Review. 

In 2019, Professors Nabulsi and Takriti were awarded the Middle East Studies Association of North America Undergraduate Education Award in recognition of their pedagogical contributions to the field through The Palestinian Revolution website.

This activity is orgainsed by the Palestinian Museum and supported by the A. M. Qattan Foundation through the ‘Visual Arts: A Flourishing Field’ (VAFF) Project, funded by Sweden.