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SUMMARY: Palestine as Praxis: Information and Intersectionality in the Age 
 of Genocide with Dr. Adel Iskandar
DESCRIPTION: The Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justi
 ce Noted Scholars Series presents Palestine as Praxis: Information and Inte
 rsectionality in the Age of Genocide Dr. Adel Iskandar WHEN & WHERE Wednesd
 ay\, October 9th\, 12:00-1:00pm Buchanan Tower 225/Zoom Please RSVP below i
 n advance                           […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p style="text-align: center\;">The Institute
  for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justice Noted Scholars Series p
 resents</p><h1 style="text-align: center\;"><span style="color: #993300\;">
 Palestine as Praxis: Information and Intersectionality in the Age of Genoci
 de</span></h1><h2 style="text-align: center\;"><span style="color: #993300\
 ;">Dr. Adel Iskandar</span></h2><hr /><p style="text-align: center\;"><stro
 ng>WHEN & WHERE<br /></strong>Wednesday\, October 9th\, 12:00-1:00pm<strong
 ><br /></strong>Buchanan Tower 225/Zoom</p><p style="text-align: center\;">
 Please RSVP below in advance</p><p>                                        
                                                                            
                                                                            
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 p><p style="text-align: center\;">A light lunch will be served at 1:00pm.</
 p><hr /><p><span style="font-weight: 400\;"><strong>ABSTRACT</strong></span
 ></p><p>In this lecture Adel Iskander argues that in our contemporary momen
 t\, it is no longer possible to undertake critical theoretical research tha
 t claims to situate itself at the intersections of emancipatory causes with
 out engaging comprehensively with the perennial paradox of Palestinian suff
 ering. Whether it's climate justice\, disarmament\, anti-racism\, decoloniz
 ation\, 2SLGBTQI+ rights\, healthcare inequality\, food insecurity\, econom
 ic scarcity\, displacement\, or any of the myriad conditions currently affl
 icting communities worldwide\, not centering Israel's ceaseless genocide\, 
 occupation\, apartheid\, erasure\, and silencing of Palestinians undermines
  the credibility of the work being undertaken.</p><p><strong>ABOUT Dr. Adel
  Iskander</strong></p><p><img class="alignleft wp-image-29255 size-thumbnai
 l" src="https://grsj.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2024/09/Sc
 reenshot_20240521_032612_Instagram2-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height=
 "150" />Adel Iskandar is an Associate Professor of Global Communication and
  the Director of the Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies (CCMS) at Simon 
 Fraser University in Vancouver/Burnaby\, Canada. The author\, co-author\, a
 nd editor of several works including Egypt In Flux: Essays on an Unfinished
  Revolution (AUCP/OUP)\; Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that is Rattl
 ing Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism (Basic Books)\; Edward Sai
 d: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation (University of California Pr
 ess)\; Mediating the Arab Uprisings (Tadween Publishing)\; and Media Evolut
 ion on the Eve of the Arab Spring (Palgrave Macmillan). Iskandar's work dea
 ls with media\, identity and politics and he has lectured extensively on th
 ese topics at universities in over 25 countries. Iskandar's engaged partici
 patory research includes supporting knowledge production through scholarly 
 digital publishing such as co-editing the popular online publication Jadali
 yya and producing academic podcasts such as Status الوضع. His community res
 earch agenda involves showcasing grassroots participatory creative producti
 on by communities in the Middle East to confront intolerance\, documenting 
 the Syrian newcomer experience in British Columbia's Lower Mainland\, and s
 upporting local MENA/SWANA artists through curated performances and exhibit
 ions. Prior to his arrival at SFU\, Iskandar taught at the Center for Conte
 mporary Arab Studies (CCAS) and the Communication\, Culture\, and Technolog
 y (CCT) Program at Georgetown University as well as the Radio-Television an
 d Film (RTF) Department at the University of Texas-Austin. Iskandar is the 
 recipient of numerous awards including the SFU Teaching Excellence Award (2
 020)\, and the Faculty of Communication\, Arts and Technology (FCAT)'s Rese
 arch Mentorship Award (2018)\, and the Equity\, Diversity\, and Inclusion A
 ward (2021). He is currently serving as the Chair of Graduate Studies in th
 e School of Communication and is undertaking two forthcoming publications—o
 ne on the political role of memes and digital satire and the other about co
 ntemporary forms of imperial transculturalism.</p>
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