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Co-Sponsored by MSU Muslim Studies Program & MSU Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities. 

 

Please join Dr. Camelia Suleiman as she presents on her research:

To be Maqdisi in Jerusalem: Palestinian Women Education

Founded in 1925 on Mt. Scopus in today’s East Jerusalem, the Hebrew University only recently opened its gates to the Palestinian youth from East Jerusalem. In response, they came. The overwhelming majority of these students are women. What does it mean to these young women to study at the Hebrew University, Israel’s most esteemed university, and in the Hebrew language? How do they make sense of their lives in  a space which deprives them of many of their other human  rights? Through ethnographic research conducted at the Hebrew University since Fall 2019, I try to answer these questions. Aiding me in my analysis is a belief in interdisciplinarity and its underlying humanistic premise  as the most viable research approach in complex situation such as Jerusalem. 

Discussion and conversation to follow

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Bio:

Camelia Suleiman is an associate professor at the Department of Linguistics, Languages and Cultures at Michigan State University and a GenCen Core Associated Faculty/Staff member. She earned her Ph.D. in (Socio)Linguistics from Georgetown University. She has published two books: The Politics of Arabic in Israel: A Sociolinguistic Analysis. University of Edinburgh Press, 2017, and Language and Identity in the Israel-Palestine Conflict: The Politics of Self-Perception in the Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris Press, 2011. Her numerous articles appeared in Pragmatics, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, Middle East Critique, The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, social Media and Society, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Studies in Language and Capitalism, and Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless. This talk is based on her forthcoming third book: Arabic Between State and Nation. Israel, the Levant and Diaspora Sussex Press (distributed in the US by the University of Chicago Press).

 

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