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Harvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Interim Harvard Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler ’87 dismissed the faculty leaders of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies on Wednesday, according to a faculty member familiar with the situation — a dramatic shakeup at a center that has come under fire for its programming on Israel and Palestine.
An-Najah University Journal/Palestine – Open Call for Papers: Sustainable Materials and Chemistry for Energy and Environmental Applications
An An-Najah University Journal for Research – A (Natural Sciences), indexed in Scopus, invites submissions for a special issue on Sustainable Materials and Chemistry for Energy and Environmental Applications
Guest Editor: Prof. Mahdi Abu Omar, UCSB
AMPAS members respond to the lack of support for filmmaker Hamdan Ballal from AMPAS leadership
On 26 March 2025, the leadership of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences emailed its membership a statement with the subject line, “Our Global Film Community.” The statement was ostensibly responding to the detention of Palestinian filmmaker and 2025 Best Documentary Feature Academy Award winner Hamdan Ballal, one of the directors of “No Other Land,” although it failed to mention either Ballal or the film by name, nor did it describe the events it was responding to.
The statement by Bill Kramer and Janet Yang fell far short of the sentiments this moment calls for. Therefore we are issuing our own statement, which speaks for the undersigned members of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Academy Apologizes for Not Naming ‘No Other Land’ Director Hamdan Ballal Amid Outcry From More Than 700 Voters
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has sent out a statement to its 11,000 members following mounting criticism over its lack of public support for Hamdan Ballal, the….
Israel admits firing at ambulances in Gaza after Palestinians say rescuers missing in Rafah
Body of team leader found almost a week after six rescuers went missing, Gaza’s civil defence agency says
‘Canary in the coalmine of totalitarianism’: how Columbia went from a home for Edward Said to a punching bag for Trump
The university had a history of being a home for cutting-edge discourse on Palestine – until it capitulated to the administration’s demands
Letter dated 27 February 2025 from the Permanent Representative of South Africa to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council
PUBLIC DOSSIER OF OPENLY AVAILABLE EVIDENCE ON THE STATE OF ISRAEL’S ACTS OF GENOCIDE AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS IN GAZA AS AT 4 FEBRUARY 2025
Kids Under Fire: An investigation into Israeli soldiers shooting children | Fault Lines Documentary
The war in Gaza has killed nearly 16,000 children since October 2023, most of whom have died in indiscriminate bombings. Yet a deeply unsettling subset of these deaths stands apart – children arriving at trauma centres with gunshot wounds.
“More than a human can bear”: Israel’s systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since October 2023
Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence against Palestinians as part of a broader effort to undermine their right to self-determination and carried out genocidal acts through the systematic destruction of sexual and reproductive healthcare facilities, according to a new report issued today by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel.