Cycle #07: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
20 January – In Course (2026)
Ilan Pappe, history professor from Israel, author of this piece (2006) describing the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian villages during the Nakba of 1948, under the growing influence of Zionism and the retreat of the British Mandate.
Cycle #06: Perfect Victims
5 October – 3 December (2025)
Mohammed El-Kurd, writer and poet from the West Bank, author of this “manifesto” (2025) that questions conditioned empathy with a critique of the idealization of victims in Palestine, appealing to a Western/liberal audience.
Cycle #05: The Wretched of the Earth
2 July – 3 September (2025)
Frantz Fanon, philosopher and psychiatrist from Martinique, author of this iconic book (1961) that dissects the effects of colonialism on the psychology of its individuals, along with an strategic and cultural roadmap toward the liberation of his beloved Algeria.
Cycle #04: Orientalism
11 April – 19 June (2025)
Edward Said, literary critic and professor from Palestine, author of this analysis (1978) on the Western influence in the creation of the concept of “Orient”, both in the cultural and political contexts, and its ties to imperialism through different historical periods.
Cycle #03: Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
6 March (2025)
Isabella Hammad, a british/palestinian novelist, recounts her lecture (2024) at Columbia University, analyzing the war on Palestine as a turning point in the narrative of human history, shedding light on the Palestinian struggle for freedom.
Cycle #02: Gaza, an Inquest into its Martyrdom
24 October (2024) – 13 February (2025)
Norman Finkelstein, a Jewish-American political scientist, author of this detailed account (2018) on international law observations of numerous Israeli military operations in Gaza in the 2000s, which led to a subsequent political and economical disaster.
Cycle #01: The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine
15 August – 10 October (2024)
Rashid Khalidi, a Palestinian-American historian, author of this comprehensive assesment (2020) of the events surrounding the colonial war waged on Palestine during 1917 and 2017, and its many agents and political decisions.
