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There Where You are Not: Selected Writings of Kamal Boullata, edited by Finbarr Barry Flood, Director of Silsila, wins a Lifetime Achievement Award for the Palestinian artist Kamal Boullata at the Palestine Book Awards.

There Where You are Not: Selected Writings of Kamal Boullata (Hirmer Verlag, 2019), edited by Finbarr Barry Flood, Director of Silsila, won a Lifetime Achievement Award for the Palestinian artist Kamal Boullata (d. 2019) at the Palestine Book Awards on November 5th:

https://www.palestinebookawards.com/news/item/palestine-book-awards-2020-winners-announced

There Where You Are Not brings together the writings of Kamal Boullata, celebrated Palestinian artist and theorist. Produced over four decades of exile in Europe, North Africa, and the United States, the experience of exile and imperatives of resistance permeate the essays, whose subjects range from autobiography to contemporary art, early ruminations on gender relations, language and the visual, to questions of identity and globalization. Taken collectively, the writings explore intersections between aesthetics, history, and politics that are central to the historiography of modern Arab art.

NYU Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies

November Events at the NYU Kevorkian Center. Their Global Uprising and Digital Forays series will continue with five unique conversations. Please see further details about the events through the link below.

https://as.nyu.edu/neareaststudies/events.html

MESA Statement on Academic Freedom and Corporate Control of Digital Platforms

The expanded use by institutions of higher learning across the United States and Canada of corporate-controlled videoconferencing platforms poses threats to the free and safe exchange of ideas. To uphold their commitment to the principles of academic freedom and vigorously protect freedom of expression and exchange of ideas — the hallmark of the — university administrators must address such threats promptly and decisively. The threat posed by corporate control of media platforms is apparent in the recent unilateral actions taken by Zoom to shut down events about Palestine at US universities.

https://mesana.org/advocacy/letters-from-the-board/2020/10/29/mesa-statement-on-academic-freedom-and-corporate-control-of-digital-platforms

Jews, Christians, and Muslims as Colleagues and Collaborators in the Abbasid Near East

Virtual Forum, October 20-December 11, 2020

The virtual forum is conceived as an opportunity to discuss the state of research on interreligious knowledge exchange. Half-hour project demos will showcase ongoing projects in the area, while one-hour research paper discussions are a chance to interact on a deeper level with researchers who are in the process of formulating approaches to the subject.

https://usaybia.net/forum2020/index.html