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May
30
2021

Arab-Jewish Intersecting Identities: Gender, Protest and Politics 

When: Sunday, May 30, 2021
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM CT

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Nancy Gelman   (847) 491-2612

Group: The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies

Co-Sponsor: Middle East and North African Studies

Category: Academic, Lectures & Meetings

Description:

ARAB-JEWISH CULTURE, IDENTITY, AND LANGUAGE: PAST AND PRESENT

Arab-Jewish Intersecting Identities: Gender, Protest and Politics 

Guest Speakers:

“The History of the Mizrahi Protest: A Chronicle Review and Lessons” 
Henriette Dahan Kalev – Professor Emerita, founder of the Gender Studies Program, Ben- Gurion University of the Negev 

“Jewish Women in Intercommunal Political Movements in Colonial Morocco” 
Orit Ouaknine-Yekutieli – Lecturer, Department of Middle East Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 

“In Journey for an Identity - When a Palestinian Refugee Discovered She is a Sephardi Jew” 
Heba Nabil Iskandarani – Visiting Lecturer, Birmingham City University, UK 

Chair:

TBD 

Fourth of five discussions and performances in the series Arab-Jewish Culture, Identity and Language - Past and Present

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