Please join us for the keynote speech presented by Dr. Takriti. This keynote speech is an open, public part of the two-day workshop (5th-6th, December) ”The Middle East and the Making of Global Anti-imperialism: Histories of the Twentieth Century”

When: Friday, 5th of December at 5 pm.

Where: 4th floor, Omnipharma Bldg B, Badaro, Beirut.

You can also attend online.

RSVP: We kindly request you to RSVP through this link or by sending an email to institute@fime.fi at the latest on Thursday, 4th of December.

Abstract

For the past eleven decades, the Palestinian people have carried out the longest running anticolonial struggle in contemporary history. Their history mirrors the trajectory of global anti-imperialism, reflecting its ebbs and flows, its successes and pitfalls. Not only have they played a key role in building global solidarity networks, but they have also contributed to promoting anti-imperialist agendas, coalitions, and frameworks in a plethora of arenas. They have also received enormous support from across the world, much of it propelled by anti-imperialist agendas. Yet, that support has paled in comparison to the massive investment that global imperialism has made in the Israeli settler-colonial project. Moreover, Palestinians, at key moments of their history, have been undermined by states, political parties, and social movements that were central to the global anti-imperialist project. This talk will reflect on this phenomenon, using it as a vantage point from which to reflect on the history of global anti-imperialism and the centrality of Palestine to its future.

Bio

Abdel Razzaq Takriti is a Palestinian historian based at Rice University, where he holds the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Arab Studies. An expert on Arab revolutions and transnational anticolonial movements, he is the author of Monsoon Revolution: Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman, 1965-1976 (Oxford University Press, 2013) and the co-author of The Palestinian Revolution (Oxford University, 2016) digital humanities website. With Daniel Denvir, he created, in the context of the Gaza Genocide, Thawra a public education project on the history of colonialism, state formation, and radical movements in the Arab Mashriq hosted by Jacobin Magazine’s The Dig podcast. He is currently writing a history of the Palestinian national liberation struggle.