Mahmoud Khalil and the Assault on Academic Freedom: Peter Beinart in Conversation with Nadia Abu El-Haj
Join Jewish Currents editor-at-large Peter Beinart for a virtual discussion of the recent assault on academic freedom—especially for pro-Palestinian activists—with Columbia University’s Nadia Abu El-Haj. Abu El-Haj is Ann Whitney Olin Professor in the departments of anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University and co-director of the Center for Palestine Studies. In her recent essay in The New York Review of Books, “Mahmoud is Not Safe,” she writes about the detention of Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil.
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Nadia Abu El-Haj is Ann Whitney Olin Professor in the departments of anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University, co-director of the Center for Palestine Studies, and chair of the Governing Board of the Society of Fellows/Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University. She also serves as vice president and vice chair of the board at The Institute for Palestine Studies in Washington, DC. She is the author of numerous journal articles published on topics ranging from the history of archaeology in Palestine to the question of race and genomics today, as well as three books: Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in post-9/11 America (2022); The Genealogical Science: The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology (2012); and Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society (2001).
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Peter Beinart teaches national reporting and opinion writing at the Newmark J-School and political science at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the editor-at-large of Jewish Currents, an MSNBC political commentator, author of The Beinart Notebook on Substack, a fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace, and the author of Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza.
