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Mitri Raheb and the Legacy of the West in the Middle East

Series: Symposium on The Politics of Persecution
Gary Burge
September 7, 2023

Western powers and in particular, the U.S., have been instrumental in breaking up the most ancient Christian community in the Middle Eastern world.

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“Religious Freedoms,” Apocalyptic Thinking, and Political Violence

Series: Symposium on The Politics of Persecution
Atalia Omer
August 30, 2023

Palestinian Christians are under attack, but they are targeted not because of their Christianity, but rather because of their Palestinian identity.

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Zionism and the Politics of Domination: On Protest, Liberty, and the Status Quo

Series: Symposium on Black Dignity
Shaul Magid
June 28, 2023

There is no dignity granted to a population living under domination; and domination remains the state policy in Israel.

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The Search for Justice, Liberation, and Humanity in the Life and Work of Desmond Tutu

Series: Transnational Solidarity and the Legacy of Tutu
Hilary Rantisi
June 26, 2023

Tutu’s message was simple: God created us for freedom. This is a freedom that does not belong to one group of people more than another.

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Desmond Tutu: A Much-Loved, Deeply Disturbed, and Offensive Prophet

Series: Transnational Solidarity and the Legacy of Tutu
Farid Esack
June 8, 2023June 22, 2023

Tutu’s theology was simple: embrace the logic and the dreams of the margins.

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A Jewish Perspective on Desmond Tutu’s Prophetic Dream for Peace and Justice in Israel/Palestine

Series: Transnational Solidarity and the Legacy of Tutu
Rebecca T. Aplert
May 31, 2023May 31, 2023

This is the starting point of Tutu’s challenge: Israel must recognize the God that is being worshipped in the land today is the God of conquest and not the God of liberation, and that they are not one in the same.

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Religion and Broken Solidarities: A Conversation on Political Movements, the Literary Imagination, and Hope

Joshua S. Lupo
May 9, 2023May 9, 2023

What is revealed in these conversations is that challenging the structures that marginalize the most vulnerable in our society requires an intersectional analysis.

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The Injured Body: Palestine, Mizrahi Jews, and the Imperial Politics of Color

Mara Ahmed and Shirly Bahar
March 24, 2023March 24, 2023

The documentary performances powerfully politicize pain by shaping it as a relational event that took place between the performing person and the state, and is lingering in the person’s body and ways of speaking, expressing, and representing themselves to this day.

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Sacralizing State Politics: Why Does it Matter?

Series: When Politics are Sacralized Symposium
Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
November 14, 2022January 3, 2023

When Politics are Sacralized seeks to comparatively reveal racially based nationalist-religious claims, along with the social, cultural, and political articulations of those claims and their significance.

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Why is the Jewish Question Different from All Similar Questions?

Brian Klug
August 29, 2022September 13, 2022

The National Question was about ethnic difference and how Europe should deal with it. The Jewish Question was about the alien within—so deep within as to be internal to Europe’s idea of itself.

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