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Date(s) - 05/24/2023
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

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The Jerusalem Fund

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The Jerusalem Fund

Washington, DC

This May, the Palestine Center cordially invites you to attend our annual Hisham Sharabi Memorial Lecture. This event honors the life and legacy of the late Professor Hisham Sharabi, the founder of The Jerusalem Fund and Palestine Center.

This year, we are honored to have Bassam Haddad, Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, as our keynote speaker. Professor Haddad’s lecture will focus on the intertwining themes of anti-imperialism and anti-authoritarianism, particularly as they relate to Syria and Palestine amid more than a decade of uprising, counterrevolution, and international intervention.

Professor Haddad will delve into the role the question of Palestine played in discussions and debates around the Syrian case within the ever-changing context of the Middle East, including China’s growing involvement. Additionally, Professor Haddad will provide insight into the intricate dynamics of the Syrian case where the juxtaposition of contrasting local, regional, and international state and non-state actors unsettled historical paradigms of revolution and resistance.

About Bassam Haddad

Bassam Haddad is Founding Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program and Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford University Press, 2011) and co-editor of A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2021). Bassam is Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine and Executive Director of the Arab Studies Institute. He serves as Founding Editor of the Arab Studies Journal and the Knowledge Production Project. He is co-producer/director of the award-winning documentary film, About Baghdad, and director of the acclaimed three-part documentary series Arabs and Terrorism. Bassam served on the Board of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences and is Executive Producer of Status Audio-Visual Podcast. He is also the Executive Editor of the Knowledge Production Project and Director of the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI). He received MESA’s Jere L. Bacharach Service Award in 2017 for his service to the profession. Currently, Bassam is working on his second Syria book titled Understanding The Syrian Tragedy: Regime, Opposition, Outsiders (forthcoming, Stanford University Press).