Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights invites you to attend the conference,
THE ARAB SPRING: A Year that Changed the World
Portland State University, SMSU Rooms 294,238,296
Saturday, February 25th, 2012
10 AM to 10 PM
Registration begins at 9:00 AM
The events of the Arab Spring have been awesome and inspiring, opening
up the possibility of a regional landscape that is almost unfathomably
different from what would have been predicted just one year ago.
Students United For Palestinian Equal Rights (SUPER, of Portland State
University) has organized a wide-ranging conference that is designed to
analyze the events of the Arab Spring, its regional and international
implications, and its effects on the future of Palestine.
The following speakers will be featured:
As'ad AbuKhalil, Professor of Political Science at California State
University, speaking on the role(s) of the United States in the Arab
Spring;
Deepa Kumar, Associate Professor of Media Studies and Middle East
Studies at Rutgers University and author ofIslamophobia and the Politics
of Empire, speaking on Islamophobia and the Arab Spring;
Joel Beinin, Professor of History and Middle East History at Stanford
University, speaking on workers' rights in the Arab Spring;
Nora Barrows-Friedman, a reporter for the Electronic Intifada as well as
correspondent for Al Jazeera, speaking on human rights in Palestine;
William Parry, journalist and photographer, will present his recently
published book, Against the Wall: The Art of Resistance in Palestine;
Mokhtar Alkhanshali, Yemeni activist, and Wael Elasady, local activist
and co-host of the KBOO radio program "One Land, Many Voices," will be
speaking on the revolutions in Yemen and Syria;
Shima'a Helmy, Egyptian activist, speaking on the Egyptian revolution;
Jesse Hagiopan, social justice activist, and Tasha Triplett, PSU student
and local activist, will speak about the Black Liberation movement and
Palestine.
Light lunch will be served. The speaker portion of the conference will
wrap up with an evening plenary panel, "The Challenges and Prospects of
the Arab Spring."
The conference will conclude with a Palestinian Cultural Night
Celebration from 7:30 to 10:00 pm in the Smith Memorial Student Union
Multicultural Center (room 228). The event will feature drumming, depka
(traditional Palestinian dance), Gazan children's artwork, poetry, food,
and more. Come help us honor the movements and organizations that are
working to create a more inclusive, democratic, and social-justice
oriented world. You are welcome to attend the Cultural Celebration even
if you do not attend the days' speaker events.
We hope you will join us for this day of revolutionary learning!
Please visit our facebook page for more information and a detailed schedule.
In solidarity,
Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights (SUPER): super@pdx.edu
Cosponsored by:
Arab Persian Student Union
International Socialist Organization
PSU Middle East Studies Center
Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights
Friends of Sabeel-North America
Jewish Voice for Peace
Portland BDS Coalition
Sociology of Islam
Lutherans for Justice in the Holy Land
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