PACC's 3rd Annual Conference Booklet

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2022

PACC’s 3rd Annual Conference

Reclamation, Resistance, Resilience

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Until Freedom:

Reclamation, Resistance, Resilience The goal of this year’s conference is to portray the resilience showcased

by Palestinians both on the ground in Palestine and in the diaspora through a critical lens while simultaneously highlighting the various methods utilized by those resisting Israeli occupation and settler colonialism. We do so with the ultimate goal of reclaiming Palestinian history, land, culture, and traditions while shedding awareness on the interconnectedness of our struggle with similarly oppressed communities. We hope participants leave the conference with a better understanding of the Palestinian struggle and a rejuvenated drive for justice and self-determination until freedom for all!

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Day 1: Thursday, March 24 (all times are EST)

Zoom link: Meeting ID: 893 3234 4491 Passcode: 802975

6:00 - 6:30pm: Opening Remarks

Abire Sabbagh

6:30 - 7:30pm: Reclaiming Palestinian History Moderated by: Nadia Taha

Dr. Sherene Seikaly

7:30 - 8:30pm: Fighting Erasure and Appropriation: Palestine x Indigenous Solidarity Moderated by: Dr. Eman Ghanayem

Dr. Robert Warrior & Dr. Sarah Ihmoud

Speakers Sherene Seikaly is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2016). She is following the trajectory of her great-grandfather in her forthcoming book titled From Baltimore to Beirut: On the Question of Palestine. His trajectory from nineteenth century mobility across Baltimore and Sudan to twentieth century immobility in Lebanon places the question of Palestine in a global history of race, capital, slavery, and dispossession. She is co-editor of Journal of Palestine Studies

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and co-editor of Jadaliyya.

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Day 1: Thursday, March 24 Speakers Dr. Eman Ghanayem is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University. She earned her PhD in English, with minor degrees in American Indian Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies, from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. Her research examines Palestinian and American Indian literatures, and the larger context of global indigenous and

Dr. Eman Ghanayem

refugee narratives, through a framework of interconnected settler colonialisms and comparative indigeneities.

Robert Warrior is Hall Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Kansas and a citizen of the Osage Nation. He is the coauthor of Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee (New Press, 1996) and the author of Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions (University of Minnesota Press, 1995) and The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction (University of Minnesota Press, 2006). He was one of the three authors of American Indian Literary Nationalism (University of New Mexico Press, 2008), and a member of the Native

Dr. Robert Warrior

Critics Collective that produced Reasoning Together (University of Oklahoma Press, 2009).

Dr Sarah Ihmoud is a Chicana-Palestinian anthropologist whose work takes Palestine and Palestinian diaspora as sites from which to explore questions of race and ethnicity, gender violence, settler colonialism, Indigenous politics and feminism in comparative and transnational perspectives. Her research has been published in Cultural Anthropology, Feminist Studies, Biography, State Crime Journal, and Jerusalem Quarterly, and has been supported by fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Wenner Gren Foundation and the Palestinian American Research Center. Dr. Ihmoud is a member

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of the Palestinian Feminist Collective and is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the College of the Holy Cross.

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Day 2: Friday, March 25 (all times are EST)

Zoom link: Meeting ID: 889 4750 0210 Passcode: 492822

6:00 - 7:15pm: Resistance Pending Liberation Moderated by: Musaab Mahmoud

Mariam Barghouti

7:15 - 7:30pm: Break 7:30 - 8:30pm: Solidarity Today, Freedom Tomorrow Moderated by: Sharif Zakout

Dr. Greg Burris, Dr. Maryam Griffin, & Zellie Imani

Speakers

Mariam Barghouti is a Palestinian writer and researcher.

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Day 2: Friday, March 25 Speakers Greg Burris is Associate Professor of Media Studies at the American University of Beirut and the author of The Palestinian Idea: Film, Media, and the Radical Imagination (Temple University Press, 2019). His work examines the intersections of race, culture, and emancipatory politics, particularly with respect to Palestine, and he is currently working on a new book which explores Zionist and Palestinian modalities of time.

Dr. Greg Burris Maryam S. Griffin is an Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at University of Washington Bothell. Broadly, her work examines people’s ordinary movements, both physical and political, and how they confront state power in quotidian and spectacular ways. She is the author of Vehicles of Decolonization: Public Transit in the Palestinian West Bank (Temple University Press, 2022) and the co-editor of We Will Not Be Silenced:

Dr. Maryam Griffin

The Academic Repression of Israel’s Critics (AK Press, 2017).

Zellie Imani is a community organizer and educator living in NJ. Zellie has served in diverse K-8 settings as an English/Math teacher and curriculum developer. Most recently, Zellie has been organizing against anti-Black state violence with Black Lives Matter Paterson.

He is also a co-founder of the Black Liberation Collective, a collective consisting of Black students who are dedicated to transforming institutions of higher education through unity, coalition building,

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direct action and political education that has initiated the #StudentBlackOut movement across campuses in the United States.

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Day 3: Saturday, March 26 (all times are EST)

Zoom link: Meeting ID: 832 6893 7198 Passcode: 766665

11:00am - 12:15pm: Stories from Palestine Moderated by: Barry Mahmoud and Sana Shaikh

Dr. Ramzy Baroud

12:15 - 12:30pm: Break 12:30 - 2:00pm: Collective Healing in the Diaspora Moderated by: Basma Bsharat

Khadija Salim & Raneem Kurzum

Speakers

Dr. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of The Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of six books. His latest book, coedited with Ilan Pappé, is “Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders and Intellectuals Speak out”. Baroud is a Non- resident Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA). Hiswebsite is www.ramzybaroud.net

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Day 3: Saturday, March 26 Speakers

Khadija is a Palestinian-American licensed professional counselor, specializing in trauma. She is a current counseling psychology doctoral student with research interests surrounding intergenerational trauma in Palestinian diaspora. She is passionate about decolonizing psychology, ancestral healing, and activism to promote healing in BIPOC communities.

Khadija Salim

Raneem is a Palestinian-American in Albany, NY. He is a 2nd year counseling psychology doctoral student at the University at Albany and has completed a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling. Throughout his studies, Raneem developed a passion for and gained professional experience in immigration, trauma treatment, and Arab-American psychology.

Raneem Kurzum

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Day 4: Sunday, March 27 (all times are EST)

Zoom link: Meeting ID: 859 0956 1573 Passcode: 919635

11:00am - 12:15pm: The Fine Arts as Symbol of Resistance Moderated by: Jenan Abuhakmeh

Kristian Davis Bailey & Wafa Ghnaim

12:15 - 12:30pm: Break 12:30 - 2:00pm: Freedom is the Future (and the future is looking bright!)

Rania Mustafa

Speakers Kristian Davis Bailey is a writer and cross-pollinator based in Chicago. His work has focused on intersections between the Black and Palestinian struggles, and Black internationalism. He is a co-founder of Black for Palestine and a co-author of the 2015 Black for Palestine Statement signed by over 1,000 Black activists including Angela Davis, Cornel West and Mumia AbuJamal. His work has taken him to Detroit, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, South Africa, Morocco and Brazil. Kristian is also the communications manager at Palestine Legal.

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Day 4: Sunday, March 27 Speakers Wafa Ghnaim is a Palestinian-American artist, researcher, writer, educator, and businesswoman who began learning Palestinian embroidery from her mother, award-winning artist Feryal AbbasiGhnaim, when she was two years old. Her first book, “Tatreez & Tea: Embroidery and Storytelling in the Palestinian Diaspora” (2018), documents the traditional patterns passed to her by her mother.

Wafa has since become a leading educator in the field as the firstever Palestinian embroidery instructor at the Smithsonian Museum, and an artist-in-residence at the Museum of the Palestinian People

Wafa Ghnaim

in Washington, D.C. In addition to her extensive scholarship, Wafa continues her mother’s educational legacy through Tatreez & Tea, a global arts education initiative she began in 2016.

With a passion for empowering those around her to achieve their highest potential and a background in community development and strategic planning, Rania Mustafa serves as the Executive Director of the Palestinian American Community Center. Rania prides herself on her established bonds to those in her community. Rania has a Master’s in management from Harvard Extension School with graduate certifications in non-profit and strategic management.

Rania has held several workshops on various aspects of nonprofit management and has served on various community coalitions and boards. Rania’s purpose in life is to help guide people through the crossroads of their lives and emerge as stronger individuals and contributors to society. During her time at New York University,

Rania Mustafa

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Rania studied identity development and how communities play a role in facilitating that process. Rania is a mom of 2 kids.

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