DR YARA HAWARI
Dr Yara Hawari is a Palestinian academic and writer. She completed her PhD in Middle East Politics at the University of Exeter, where her research focused on oral history and Indigenous Studies. She currently works as a senior analyst at Al-Shabaka, a Palestinian think tank. She is a frequent political commentator for various media outlets, including The Guardian, Foreign Policy and Al Jazeera English. She is also the author of The Stone House, her debut novella and the host of the podcast Rethinking Palestine.
Dr Hawari's lecture titled Imagining a Palestinian Future: Re-internationalising the Palestinian Struggle streamed directly from Palestine on Sunday 13 November 2022.
"As we enter into the eighth decade of the ongoing Nakba (also known as the Israeli settler colonial project), Palestinian land continues to be annexed whilst Palestinians themselves continue to be displaced, incarcerated and ghettoized. All of this is in addition to a global shift towards the far right which has made it increasingly harder to imagine a liberated Palestine and a decolonial future. Yet it is possible. The first step is recognising that Palestine is not an exceptional case – rather it is an example par excellence of how (settler) colonialism, patriarchy and capitalism come together to oppress an indigenous population. Palestine must thus be situated as an integral part of the international struggle for a just world.”