2018 Edward Said Memorial Lecture
This year, 2018, marks the 14th year of the Lecture, which will be presented in conjunction with the 2018 Adelaide Festival of Ideas.
Speaker:
Noura Erakat
Attorney and human rights advocate
Lecture title:
ANTI-BLACKNESS, SETTLER-COLONIALISM AND THE QUESTION OF PALESTINE
SATURDAY, 14 July 2018, 5:30PM-7:00PM
Adelaide Town Hall
128 King William St, ADELAIDE SA
Tickets: $20 General Entry / $15 Concession Entry
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Audio now available
Audio recording of Noura Erakat's presentation of the 2018 Edward Said Memorial Lecture, with thanks to the Adelaide Festival of Ideas.
About Noura Erakat
Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and an Assistant Professor at George Mason University. Her research interests include humanitarian law, refugee law, national security law, and critical race theory.
She is a Co-Founding Editor of Jadaliyya e-zine and an Editorial Committee member of the Journal of Palestine Studies. Prior to joining GMU's faculty, she served as Legal Counsel for a Congressional Subcommittee in the House of Representatives, as a Legal Advocate for the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee and Residency Rights, and as the national grassroots organizer and legal advocate at the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. She is a Co-Founding Board Member of the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival and is a Board member of the Institute for Policy Studies. Noura is the coeditor of Aborted State? The UN Initiative and New Palestinian Junctures, an anthology related to the 2011 and 2012 Palestine bids for statehood at the UN.
More recently, Noura released a pedagogical project on the Gaza Strip and Palestine, which includes a short multimedia documentary, Gaza In Context, that rehabilitates Israel’s wars on Gaza within a settler-colonial framework. She is also the producer of the short video, Black Palestinian Solidarity. Noura’s media appearances include CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, PBS NewsHour, BBC World Service, NPR, Democracy Now!, and Al Jazeera. She has published in the Nation, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Huffington Post, Jezebel, IntlLawGrrls, The Hill, and Foreign Policy, among others. Noura is the author of Justice for Some: Law As Politics in the Question of Palestine (forthcoming Stanford University Press, 2019).
17 JULY 2018: Noura Erakat interviewed on the ABC
Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat Speaks to Australian Broadcasting Corporation about the Focus on Hamas in Midst of Israel's Killing of Three Palestinian Boys.
In the past four days, Israel has killed three young Palestinian boys in Gaza raising the death toll to 139 since Palestinians began the Great Return March on 30 March 2018. The renewed escalations follow Israel sealing of Kerem Shalom, the only commercial crossing in the Gaza Strip and Israeli claims that flaming kites from Gaza justify the use of defensive force. Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat joins the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to discuss these latest developments.
19 JULY 2018: Noura Erakat's address in Melbourne, Australia
The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) hosted Noura in Melbourne for her lecture, Human Rights and Palestine in the age of Trump.
14 MAY 2018: NOURA ERAKAT INTERVIEW ON CBS NEWS
How are Palestinians reacting to the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem and violence in Gaza?
Powerful interview by Noura Erakat on CBS News in the US.
9 May 2018: Noura Erakat, Washington Post
Opinion: Palestinians want freedom, just like anyone would.
Palestinian American human-rights attorney Noura Erakat says protesters in Gaza aren't pawns of Hamas; they are struggling for the freedom all humans want.
3 APRIL 2018: NOURA'S INTERVIEW WITH PHILLIP ADAMS ON ABC RADIO LATE NIGHT LIVE
On Friday 30 March 2018, thirty-thousand Palestinians in the Gaza Strip organized the largest civil protest in recent history in Palestine. The effort, known as the March of Return, is meant to commemorate the Land Day protests organized by Palestinian citizens of Israel in response to Israeli land confiscations and to last through the Palestinian Nakba on 15 May 2018, also known as Israel’s independence day. On the first day of the March of Return, Israeli snipers shot to kill 18 Palestinians and injured 1400 others across the militarized border against the unarmed demonstrators who were within the Gaza Strip’s buffer zone and posed no threat to the soldiers.
In this interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Noura Erakat places the march in context and discusses the mainstream media’s inability to understand or explain this mass civil uprising.
