The Concept of Genocide and the Destruction of Gaza
Date and Time
Nov 25, 2024 6:00 pm
Location
450K
450 K St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20001
Nov 25, 2024 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 Dirk Moses 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 DECOLONIZATION, SELF-DETERMINATION, AND THE RISE OF GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS POLITICS and THE PROBLEMS OF GENOCIDE will be available for purchase before and after the event. Please note that this event is IN PERSON and will be livestreamed.
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A. Dirk Moses is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of Political Science at the City College of New York (CUNY). Previously, he taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Sydney, and the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He is the author of publications on genocide and international affairs, most recently The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression (2021). Recent anthologies include The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Victims, Perpetrators, Justice and the Question of Genocide (2024) and Patriotic History and the (Re)Nationalization of Memory (2023). He edits the Journal of Genocide Research, where he is running a forum on Gaza. His public writings on Gaza and Ukraine have appeared in the Boston Review, Noema Magazine, and Lawfare.
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).
