Contact information
Name:
Nicki Newton
Phone:
6103305167
Email:
newtonh@lafayette.edu
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When:
Monday, April 20, 2026 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Where:
HUGEL 103
Presenter:
DR. Ussama Makdisi
Price:
Free
The question addressed in this talk is why, across so many parts of the liberal West that so solemnly proclaims the universality of law and human rights, is Muslim and Christian Palestinian life consistently
devalued? What is the historical narrative that authorizes this devaluation? How much has this narrative changed over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries? And to what extent is the
Gaza genocide one of its principal consequences?
Sponsored by:
The History Department