Speakers 2023

Khalida Jarrar

Khalida Jarrar was born in Nablus in occupied Palestine. She has a Bachelor’s degree in business administration and Master’s degree in Democracy […]

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Nour Joudah

Nour Joudah is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at UCLA and a former President’s and Andrew W. […]

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Zukiswa Wanner

Zukiswa Wanner is a South African journalist, novelist and editor born in Zambia and now based in Kenya. Since 2006, when she […]

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David Palumbo-Liu

David Palumbo-Liu is the Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor and Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford. His work has appeared in Al Jazeera, […]

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Sarah Riggs

Sarah Riggs is a poet, activist, and co-founder of Tamaas. She is the author of seven books of poetry in English, most recently: Pomme […]

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Wisam Rafeedie

Wisam Rafeedie is a former Palestinian political prisoner, full-time researcher and lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences at Bethlehem University – […]

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Mohammad Ghosheh

Mohammad Ghosheh wrote and published his first book about the history of Jerusalem in 1987 when he was a 16-year-old high school […]

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Nadya Tannous

Nadya Tannous is a passionate community organizer, writer and researcher, born and raised in the Bay Area (Unceded Ohlone Territory), with a […]

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Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch

Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch, is a Palestinian refugee from Dheisheh Refugee Camp in the West Bank. He is the cofounder of the Ibdaa […]

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Trinity Goombi-Guido

Trinity Goombi-Guido is a Lenape citizen of the Delaware Nation of Anadarko, Oklahoma. She also descends from the Caddo, Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, […]

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