Interviews
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Makdisi Street Podcast: “A little more than nothing is better than nothing” with Michael Barenboim
Palestinian Jewish Academics (PJA) member Michael Barenboim appears on the latest episode of the podcast Makdisi Street. The Makdisi brothers feature Michael in a wide‐ranging conversation in which he reflects on the intersections of classical music, dissent, Palestinian identity and the realities of anti-Palestinian racism in Germany, and PJA. 📍 Listen here: https://youtu.be/NaFY7ywJF-c Continue reading
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Interview with PJA Members in Berliner Zeitung: On Gaza, Scholasticide, and Solidarity
Berliner Zeitung has published an in-depth interview with PJA founding members Aurélia Kalisky and Nahed Samour, on the occasion of our upcoming first annual conference in Berlin. The article, Gaza: ‘There is no other conflict in which all universities have been destroyed’, addresses the unprecedented destruction of all eleven universities in Gaza during Israel’s current Continue reading
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Resisting Complicity: The Role of Academia in Times of Genocide. An Interview with Ilan Pappé
In this critical moment of twenty months of unfolding genocide in Gaza and intensified debates within German academic and cultural institutions over the boundaries of political expression, academic freedom, and institutional culpability, we spoke with the Israeli historian Ilan Pappé. Pappé’s work has long unsettled official narratives and broken silences around the foundational injustices of Continue reading
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Die zersplitterte Ökumene: Kolonialismus, Zionismus und die andauernde Nakba
Ein Gespräch mit Professor Ussama Makdisi Anlässlich des 77. Jahrestages der Nakba, der „Katastrophe“ (auf arabisch) von Massenvertreibungen, Enteignungen und ethnischen Säuberungen von Palästinenser*innen im Jahr 1948, sprach der Verein palästinensischer und jüdischer Akademiker*innen (PJA) mit Ussama Makdisi, Professor für Geschichte, Chancellor- und May-Ziadeh-Lehrstuhlinhaber für palästinensische und arabische Studien an der University of California Berkeley, Continue reading
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The Shattered Ecumene: Colonialism, Zionism, and the Ongoing Nakba. A Conversation with Professor Ussama Makdisi
Ussama Makdisi was recently in Berlin where he gave an interview to members of the Association of Palestinian and Jewish Academics (PJA). To mark 77 years since the Nakba—Arabic for “catastrophe”—which refers to the mass displacement, dispossession, and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948, PJA spoke with Ussama Makdisi, Professor of History, Chancellor’s Chair, and May Ziadeh Continue reading
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