IdentityTalks

Join us as we discuss the complexities of Palestinian Identity in today's world with Lema Nazeeh in Episode 5 of "Palestinian: Beyond Conflict"

 Lema Nazeeh is a Palestinian lawyer, feminist and political activist. She is a deputy chairperson of the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee (PSCC), which operates in Occupied Palestinian Territories. She is a well-known political activist engaged in popular resistance to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. She specialises in International Criminal Law, detainees’ rights, litigation related to land entitlement as well as the coordination of advocacy campaigns. 

Lema is constantly threatened by Israeli authorities that carry out political arrests of Palestinian activists on the charges of preparing or participating in non-violent demonstration. She has been arrested four times in the last three years. She also holds a Masters (LLM) in International Criminal Law from the University of Turin. Currently, she works as a diplomat and legal expert in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Join us as we discuss the complexities of Palestinian Identity in today's world with Ali Abunimah in Episode 4 of "Palestinian: Beyond Conflict"

Ali Abunimah is director of the widely acclaimed publication The Electronic Intifada, an independent non-profit publication focusing on Palestine. He has written hundreds of articles and spoken on the topic all over the world. 

He is author of One Country, A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse (2007) and The Battle for Justice in Palestine (2014).

Join us as we discuss the complexities of Palestinian Identity in today's world with Dr Ghada Karmi in Episode 3 of "Palestinian: Beyond Conflict"

Ghada Karmi was born in Jerusalem and was forced to leave her home with her family as a result of Israel's creation in 1948. The family moved to England in 1949, where she grew up and was educated.  

She practised as a doctor for many years working as a specialist in the health of migrants and refugees. She has held several research appointments on Middle Eastern politics and culture at the School of Oriental and African Studies and in the Universities of Durham and Leeds.  She has previously served as an Associate Fellow fo the Royal Institute of International Affairs, where she led a major project on Israel-Palestinian reconciliation. In 2009, she became a Fellow of the Royals Society of Arts.  

Currently, Ghada Karmi is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter. She lives in London.

Join us as we discuss the complexities of Palestinian Identity in today's world with Antwan Saca in Episode 2 of "Palestinian: Beyond Conflict"

Antwan was born in Jerusalem in 1984 to a Christian family from the city of Bethlehem and has been working toward the dream of peace and justice in the Holy Land throughout his adult life. 

He has served as director of Programs of the Holy Land Trust in Bethlehem, Program Coordinator at the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation and as a research assistant in the area of urbanisation and geopolitical monitoring at the Applied Research Institute Jerusalem (ARII). He previously served as a youth leader and was a member of the One Voice movement. Antwan graduated from Arab American University of Jenin (AAUJ) with a bachelor’s degree in public law.

Join us as we discuss the complexities of Palestinian Identity in today's world with Dr Ramzy Baroud in Episode 1 of "Palestinian: Beyond Conflict".  

Ramzy Baroud is a US-Palestinian journalist, author and internationally syndicated columnist, and editor of Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of five books and a contributor to many others; his latest volume is The Last Earth, a Palestinian Story. His work has also been published in hundreds of newspapers and journals worldwide, including The Washington Post and Al-Jazeera. 

 Ramzy has a PhD in Palestine Studies from the University of Exeter and was a Non-resident Scholar at Orfalea Centre for Global and International Studies, University of California Santa Barbara. Currently, he is a Non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA) and Istanbul Zaim University (IZU).

Join us as we discuss the complexities of Palestinian Identity in today's world with Yasser Qous in our final episode of "Palestinian: Beyond Conflict"

Yasser Qous is the executive director of the African Community Society, a grass-roots centre which serves the needs of the Afro-Palestinian community in Jerusalem.

He is also currently a master's student at the Department of History and Civilisation at the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. His research interests revolve around the social history of Palestine, with a focus on the historical development of the Afro-Palestinian community in Jerusalem.

 As such, he has written and spoken extensively on the topic and has published his work in Cairn International and the Goethe Institute as well as participated in interviews on behalf of the Afro-Palestinian community with major news outlets such as the Jerusalem Post.

Join us as we discuss the complexities of Kashmiri Identity in today's world with Muhammad Faysal in Episode 8 of "Kashmiri: Beyond Conflict".  

Faysal is currently a broadcast journalist at TRT World based in Istanbul. He has created and developed digital spaces for over a decade. He was born and raised in Srinagar, India-administered Kashmir. He is also curating Made in Kashmir a project about memory and storytelling narratives, check it out here: https://madeinkashmir.org/

Join us as we discuss the complexities of Kashmiri identity in today's world with Muzzammil Ayyub Thakur in Episode 8 of "Kashmiri: Beyond Conflict".  

Thakur is director-general of The Justice Foundation: Kashmir Institute of International Affairs and the president of the World Kashmir Freedom Movement. Thakur is the son of exiled political activist, Ayyub Thakur and has continued his father's legacy in his own work advocating for Kashmir. Thakur's work has led him to become an analyst on Kashmiri affairs, and as such he has appeared on multiple news outlets such as Indus News, BBC and TRT world.

Join us as we discuss the complexities of Kashmiri identity in today's world with Shaukat Ali Kashmiri in Episode 7 of "Kashmiri: Beyond Conflict".  

Kashmiri is the exiled leader and founder of the United Kashmir National Party (UKPNP). He is struggling for the rights of the People's of Jammu and Kashmir. He servers as the Secretary-General of the International Kashmir Alliance (IKA), which is comprised of secular political parties struggling for the independence of Kashmir, Gilgit and Baltistan. Kashmiri has been living in exile in Switzerland since 1999.

Join us as we discuss the complexities of Kashmiri identity in today's world with Dr Nyla Ali Khan in Episode 6 of "Kashmiri: Beyond Conflict".  

Khan is the granddaughter of Sheikh Abdullah (the first prime minister of Jammu and Kashmir). She is currently a professor at Rose State College, Midwest City, OK and taught as an Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska-Kearney. She has authored several books and articles, which focus on the political issues faced in Jammu and Kashmir. You can find more of her work here: https://scholars.org/scholar/nyla-khan