About this Event
With a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas finally reached, many are celebrating an end to the devastation in Gaza and the imminent return of the Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. What will happen next, however — and who will govern Gaza as it rebuilds — remains unclear.
This event aims to deepen our understanding of a group that is playing a key role in deciding the future of the region: Hamas. Though Israel is demanding that Hamas be excluded from governing Gaza, even if Hamas were to disappear, the regional dynamics it represents would still persist. Co-authored with Helena Cobban, journalist Rami Khouri will draw on interviews with leading experts in their book, Understanding Hamas And Why That Matters. He will explore with us the past, present, and future of Hamas — what it wants, who its supporters are, and why it matters to appreciating forces that will long shape the Middle East.
Rami George Khouri is a Palestinian-Jordanian and U.S. citizen whose family resides in Beirut, Amman, and Nazareth. In his 18 years at the American University of Beirut (AUB) he was the founding director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI), an adjunct visiting professor of journalism, and, in 2000-2003, the Director of Global Engagement, working from New York City and Beirut. He is now a senior public policy fellow at IFI, and also heads a research project at the Center for American Studies and Research and the AUB Libraries Archives to analyze the private papers of the late journalist Anthony Shadid. He has written for many leading international publications, including the Financial Times, the Boston Globe, and the Washington Post.
Khury Petersen-Smith is the Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow and the Co-Director of the New Internationalism Project at IPS. He researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration and strategizes with activists to work against the violence that the U.S. carries out and supports around the world. Khury focuses especially on U.S. militarism in the Middle East and in the Pacific, and movements that resist it. He graduated from the Clark University Graduate School of Geography in Massachusetts, after completing a dissertation on U.S. military bases in the Pacific. He is one of the co-authors and organizers of the 2023 Black Voices for Ceasefire statement, which was signed by over 6,000 Black activists, artists, and scholars.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
United Parish in Brookline, 15 Marion St, Brookline, United States
USD 0.00
