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The New Palestinian Nakba and Global Resistance to Colonialism
Oriental Hall, AUC Tahrir Square
AUC Avenue, P.O. Box 74, New Cairo, 11835, Egypt
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In commemoration of the 1948 Nakba, and as the Palestinian people currently face a new one in Gaza, Alternative Policy Solutions at The American University in Cairo is hosting a public talk entitled “The New Palestinian Nakba and Global Resistance to Colonialism”.
Land grabbing has been one of the main colonial strategies used in Palestine since the 1948 Nakba. The talk will discuss how land grabbing has complemented wars as a means of colonial expansion, how governments and different institutions profiteer from it, and the role of divestment in countering this expansion.
This discussion features Anuradha Mittal, Founder and Executive Director of The Oakland Institute, and Chair of the Independent Board for Ben & Jerry’s. Mittal is the Recipient of several awards including the 2022 Feyerabend Award, All in for Justice awarded by the Institute for Middle East Understanding, and Endow the Future awarded by the Responsible Endowments Coalition. She was named the “Most Valuable Thinker” by The Nation magazine in 2008.
Mittal has authored and edited numerous books and reports, including Palestine: For Land and Life. Her articles and opinion pieces have appeared in Los Angeles Times and The New York Times, among others, and she is frequently interviewed on CNN, BBC World, CBC, ABC, Al Jazeera, and National Public Radio. She often testifies before the US Congress and the United Nations.
She will be in conversation with Rabab El Mahdi, Associate Professor of Political Science at The American University in Cairo and Director of Alternative Policy Solutions (APS).
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Anuradha Mittal
Anuradha Mittal, founder and executive director of the Oakland Institute, is an internationally renowned expert on issues of human rights, agriculture, development, and conservation policies. Recipient of several awards including the 2022 Feyerabend Award, All in for Justice, and Endow the Future awarded by the Responsible Endowments Coalition and the KPFA Peace Prize, Anuradha was named the “Most Valuable Thinker” by the Nation magazine. Anuradha has authored and edited numerous books and reports, including Stealth Game: "Community" Conservancies Devastate Land & Lives in Northern Kenya; Nicaragua's Failed Revolution: The Indigenous Struggle for Saneamiento; Losing the Serengeti: The Maasai Land that was to Run Forever; Palestine: For Land and Life; and The Long Shadow of War: The Struggle for Justice in Postwar Sri Lanka. Her articles and opinion pieces have been published in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Bangkok Post, among others; and she is frequently interviewed on CNN, BBC World, CBC, ABC, Al Jazeera, and the National Public Radio. Anuradha often testifies before the US Congress, the United Nations, and has given several hundred keynote addresses including invitational events from governments and universities. Anuradha is on the board of several prominent non-profits and also serves as the Chair of the Independent Board for Ben & Jerrys.
Rabab El Mahdi ’96, ’98
Associate Professor, Political Science Department
The American University in Cairo
Rabab El Mahdi is an associate professor of political science at The American University in Cairo (AUC). She earned her PhD from McGill University in Montreal, where she wrote her dissertation on the impact of neo-liberal economic reconstruction on changing patterns of state-civil society relations in Egypt and Bolivia. Her field of specialization is comparative political economy and development, with a focus on Latin America and the Middle East. El Mahdi’s research interests cover the areas of state-civil society relations, social movements and resistance, as well as the political economy of social policy. Before joining AUC, she worked for several developmental organizations, including Non-governmental organizations and United Nation agencies. Previously she taught at Yale University and was a recipient of a number of fellowships at Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and the Rockefeller Bellagio Center Residency. She is also the recipient of a number of research grants from Carnegie Corporation of New York and The Rockefeller Brothers Foundation. Currently, she leads AUC's research project, Alternative Policy Solutions (APS). She serves on the boards of a number of civil society and professional organizations, including the Arab Political Science Network (APSN).
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