Distinguished Professor and the Penny Kanner Endowed Chair Emerita in Gender Studies Her most recent book is: Nothing Has to Make Sense: Upholding White Supremacy Through Anti-Muslim Racism (2022).
Saree Makdisi is Professor of English and Chair of the department at UCLA. His teaching and research are situated at the crossroads of several different fields, including British Romanticism, imperial culture, colonial and postcolonial theory and criticism, and the cultures of urban modernity, particularly the revision and contestation of charged urban spaces, including London, Beirut and Jerusalem.
Dr. Loubna Qutami
Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at the UCLA. Qutami’s research examines transnational Palestinian youth movements after the 1993 Oslo Accords through the 2011 Arab Uprisings
Dr. Lara Sheehi
Lara Sheehi is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology. She got her Doctorate of Psychology from the George Washington University’s Professional Psychology Program where she also taught doctoral level students and is the founding faculty director of the Psychoanalysis and the Arab World Lab.
Dr. Stephen Sheehi
Stephen Sheehi is an American Middle East studies scholar of Lebanese origin. He is a professor of Arabic Studies and the Sultan Qaboos bin Said Chair of Middle East Studies at the College of William & Mary.
Moderator
Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
نادرة شلهوب-كيفوركيان
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, a Palestinian feminist, is the Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Faculty of Law, Institute of Criminology, and Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare.