Sumários

Palestine and Israel II

1 Abril 2025, 18:00 Giulia Daniele


- The Oslo Accords

- The second Intifada
- After 2000s
- Israeli society and internal cleavages
- The Palestinian crossroads
- What alternatives?

Palestine and Israel

25 Março 2025, 18:00 Giulia Daniele


- Preliminary overview

- Maps
- The Ottoman Empire
- The British Mandate
- 1947/48: Between the UN Partition Plan and the State of Israel/Palestinian Nakba
- The Palestinian diaspora
- 1956 and 1967 wars
- Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
- 1973 war and the role of Egypt
- The first Intifada

The "Arab Spring(s)" and Ongoing Challenges

18 Março 2025, 18:00 Giulia Daniele


- Social movements: Meanings, factors and questions

- Problematising the Arab Spring(s)
- Workers and their struggles: Uprisings from the periphery
- Women as key players in the Arab Spring(s)
- The Arab Spring(s) in Palestine and Israel
- The Arab Spring(s) in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
- The "Israeli Spring"
- Fourteen years later

Syria in the Last Decade: Conflict, Mediation, and Geopolitical Implications

11 Março 2025, 18:00 Giulia Daniele


Lecture by Abbas Ismail (PhD Candidate in International Studies)

Gender and Women's Studies in the Middle East and North Africa

25 Fevereiro 2025, 18:00 Giulia Daniele


- Waves of feminism(s) in the region

- Nationalism: What's beyond?
- The Palestinian case-study
- Wars and conflicts: Women's double burden
- Orientalism as a gendered discourse
- Islam and women/gender: Recognising its complexity
- Islamic Feminism(s)
- Women's organisations and states
- Transnational feminism: Transcending borders and identities