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DESCRIPTION:Overwriting Palestine: History\, Genocide and Denial Today\n\nU
 ssama Makdisi\n\nProfessor of History and Chancellor’s Chair\n\nUniversity
  of California Berkeley\n\nLeacock #232\, 855 Sherbrooke St W\, Montreal\n
 \n4 pm\n\nOctober 28\, 2024\n\n* The event will be live-streamed at Morric
 e 328 in case Leacock is overcapacity.\n\n* Link to the livestream*\n\nDr.
  Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at the Univ
 ersity of California Berkeley. He was previously Professor of History and 
 the first holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab
  Studies at Rice University in Houston. In 2012-2013\, Makdisi was an invi
 ted Resident Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Ad
 vanced Study\, Berlin). The Carnegie Corporation named Makdisi a 2009 Carn
 egie Scholar as part of its effort to promote original scholarship regardi
 ng Muslim societies and communities\, both in the United States and abroad
 . Makdisi was awarded the Berlin Prize by the American Academy of Berlin.
 \n\nProfessor Makdisi’s most recent book Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenica
 l Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World was published in 2019 by t
 he University of California Press. He is also the author of Faith Misplace
 d: the Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations\, 1820-2001 (Public Affairs\,
  2010). His previous books include Artillery of Heaven: American Missionar
 ies and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East (Cornell University Press
 \, 2008)\, which was the winner of the 2008 Albert Hourani Book Award from
  the Middle East Studies Association\, the 2009 John Hope Franklin Prize o
 f the American Studies Association\, and a co-winner of the 2009 British-K
 uwait Friendship Society Book Prize given by the British Society for Middl
 e Eastern Studies. He is also the author of The Culture of Sectarianism: C
 ommunity\, History\, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon (U
 niversity of California Press\, 2000). Makdisi co-hosts a new podcast call
 ed Makdisi Street.\n\nThis event is part of the ON GAZA series that starte
 d in Fall 2023. It is co-sponsored by the Critical Media Lab (CML)\, the R
 esearch Group on Democracy\, Space and Technology (RGDST) of the Yan P. Li
 n Centre\, the Institute of Islamic Studies and the Montreal Ottoman Turki
 sh Studies (MOTS) Workshop at McGill University.\n
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LOCATION:Leacock Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2T7\, 855 rue Sherbroo
 ke Ouest
SUMMARY:RGDST: Ussama Makdisi 'Overwriting Palestine: History\, Genocide an
 d Denial Today'
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/channels/event/rgdst-ussama-makdisi-over
 writing-palestine-history-genocide-and-denial-today-358862
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