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‘The imprisonment of our people and our archives’: A conversation with Makan, Alia Al Sabi and Zena Agha (In-person event)
February 28 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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The genocide in the Gaza Strip represents an intensification and acceleration of Israel’s colonial practices against Palestinians living on the ground and in exile. At the same time, education, research, the university, and archives are sites where these colonial practices coalesce.
For decades, Israel has targeted Palestinian educational institutions through raids, closures, and bombardments, routinely stealing and destroying archives and records, while educators and students have been subjected to scholasticide, kidnappings, torture, and imprisonment, with at least 10,000 Palestinians currently being held captive inside of Israeli prisons.
And today, following the physical destruction of every university building in Gaza, an urgent question Palestinian scholars have been contending with since the Nakba is how do we do the work of producing knowledge, archiving our histories, and mapping out our futures under a settler colonial and apartheid regime that seeks to erase our existence?
Makan’s upcoming conversation with scholars Alia Al-Sabi and Zena Agha will explore the nature of archiving in this context and how conditions of oppression manifest for Palestinian researchers and archivists working in different locations.
- Where: Reference Point, 2 Arundel St, Temple, London WC2R 3DA
- When: 28th of February
- Time: Doors open at 7pm. Conversation begins at 7.30 and will last until 9.00pm.
- Please note this is an in-person event and registration is needed in order to attend.
- The Syrian Sunflower will be providing snacks at the event