Center for Civic Engagement Presents
From Fellahin to Fatah: The Experience of Palestinian Political Prisoners
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
12:30 pm EST/GMT-5
12:30 pm EST/GMT-5
A talk by Rebecca Granato, Assistant Dean, Al-Quds Bard College for Arts and Sciences
In the past several weeks, hundreds of Palestinians have been arrested or administratively detained by Israel. This technique of mass arrests is not new to Israel. Since the Occupation's inception in 1967, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have cycled through the Israeli prison system, many of them more than once. This talk will trace the evolution of an organized prisoner movement in the 1970s and 1980s and will look at how different the situation is amongst prisoners today. Rebecca Granato, Bard class of 1999, is the Assistant Dean and a founding faculty member of Al-Quds Bard College for Arts and Sciences. She has since been a Palestinian American Research Center Fellow, faculty associate of the Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking, and PhD candidate of Middle Eastern History at the University of Waterloo.
For more information, call 845-752-4794, e-mail [email protected],
or visit https://www.bard.edu/cce/.
Time: 12:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: Campus Center, Weis Cinema