Arab-Jewish Intersecting Identities: Gender, Protest and Politics

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

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