Center for Human Rights and the Arts, American and Indigenous Studies Program, and Middle Eastern Studies Program Present

Unmapping the Gaza Strip with Dr. Hadeel Assali

Hadeel Assali is an anthropologist and former engineer whose research has focused primarily on Gaza and the surrounding region. She is currently a postdoctoral scholar at Columbia University’s Center for Science and Society and a lecturer in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, where she teaches about the ongoing colonial legacies in the earth and climate sciences and the need for centering other forms of knowledge. She has published contributions in Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope, where she has written about the problematic framings of the Gaza Strip; in Gaza on Screen, where she has a cowritten chapter analyzing videos by the Palestinian resistance; on the blog of Insanniyat Society of Palestinian anthropologists, where she has written about the impossibility of accessing the Gaza Strip; and in the London Review of Books, where she wrote about a secret Israeli ethnic cleansing scheme that resulted in her great-uncle’s expulsion to Paraguay. Her current book manuscript, tentatively titled Prophecies of Palestine: Geology and Intimate Knowledge of the Subterranean examines the colonial encounters of Gaza’s tunnel diggers with Israeli military geologists within the broader context of the history of Palestine and the history of geology as an extractive and colonial discipline. She has also made two short films on Gaza: Daggit Gazza and Shuja’iyah Land of the Brave, which, despite their age, continue to be relevant.

This event is sponsored by Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck, The Middle Eastern Studies Department, and the Center for Human Rights and the Arts.

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For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5

Location: Campus Center, Weis Cinema

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