Syria, Israel/Palestine and the Future of the Middle East | Gaza Lecture Series
Date and Time
Jan 16, 2025 6:00 pm
Location
450K
450 K St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20001
Jan 16, 2025 6:00 pm
450K
We here at Busboys and Poets Books have been watching with horror as the siege on Gaza continues and the civilian death count rises day by day. In partnership with the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding of Georgetown University, we present The Gaza Lecture Series of 2024. We invite everyone to come and learn more about the history of settler colonialism, violence, and genocide in Palestine. Political scientist and scholar Fawaz Gerges is joining us on the Busboys stage in conversation with Dr. Nader Hashemi, Associate Professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics at Georgetown University.
This event is free and open to all. Our program begins at 6:00 pm, and will be followed by an audience Q&A. Copies of MAKING THE ARAB WORLD and WHAT REALLY WENT WRONG will be available for purchase before and after the event. Please note that this event is IN PERSON and will be livestreamed.
We ask that guests RSVP in order to receive direct updates about the event from Busboys and Poets Books
Fawaz A. Gerges is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and holder of the Emirates Professorship in Contemporary Middle East Studies. He was also the inaugural Director of the LSE Middle East Centre from 2010 until 2013. Gerges has taught at Oxford, Harvard, and Columbia, and was a research scholar at Princeton and the chairholder of the Christian A. Johnson Chair in Middle Eastern Studies and International Affairs at Sarah Lawrence College, New York. He is the author of several acclaimed books, including ISIS: A History, The New Middle East, and The Far Enemy. You can follow him on X @FawazGerge
Dr. Nader Hashemi is the Director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and an Associate Professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is the author of Islam, Secularism and Liberal Democracy: Toward a Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies (Oxford University Press, 2009) and co-editor of The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future (Melville House, 2011), The Syria Dilemma (MIT Press, 2013), Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East (Oxford University Press, 2017) and a four-volume study on Islam and Human Rights: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies (Routledge, 2023). His next book project is entitled: “The Global Divide over Israel and Palestine.” He is also a Non-Resident Fellow at Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN).
