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18 Oct 2020

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Witness Palestine Film Festival: IT’S WHAT WE DO

Sunday, October 18, 2020 - 7:00pm
Virtual
Sponsored By: 
Witness Palestine Rochester

Courageous veterans of the Israeli military have come forward to testify to the violence that they were ordered to carry out against Palestinians living under occupation. House demolitions, night raids of Palestinian homes, arrest and detention of children, and other human rights abuses are routine. In 2004, Israeli Defense Forces veterans, who have seen and participated in these atrocities, formed Breaking the Silence, whose purpose is to bring these stories to the Israeli public. The film, based on a play, presents verbatim testimonies of former Israeli soldiers.

Contact: 
http://witnesspalestinerochester.org/contact-us/

18 Oct 2020

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The Ruins of Lifta: Where the Holocaust and Nakba Meet

Sunday, October 18, 2020 - 3:00pm
Virtual
Sponsored By: 
Voices from the Holy Land

Lifta is the only Arab village abandoned in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that has not been completely destroyed or repopulated by Jews. Its ruins are now threatened by an Israeli development plan that would convert it into an upscale Jewish neighborhood. Discovering that his parents' Holocaust experiences may have distorted his views of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Menachem - the filmmaker and an Orthodox Jew from Brooklyn - sets out to establish a personal relationship with a Palestinian.

Contact: 
https://www.voicesfromtheholyland.org/contact

11 Oct 2020

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Witness Palestine Film Festival: A PEOPLE WITHOUT A LAND

Sunday, October 11, 2020 - 7:00pm
Virtual
Sponsored By: 
Witness Palestine Rochester

A PEOPLE WITHOUT A LAND
Streaming Oct 4-13, 2020
Online Discussion Sunday Oct 11 @ 7:00 pm EDT

Contact: 
http://witnesspalestinerochester.org/contact-us/

08 Oct 2020

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Making Germany more Welcoming and Economically Stronger: The Role of Refugees and Migration Policy

Thursday, October 8, 2020 - 11:00am
Virtual

In 2015 and 2016, European Countries received more than 1 million refugees. Germany adopted an open border policy welcoming refugees and implementing strategies to integrate them into society by providing access to healthcare, education, and jobs. Lessons learned from Germany are relevant to the U.S., which has recently adopted a different approach regarding immigration.

07 Oct 2020

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Islam and the State: Religious Education in the Age of Mass Schooling (with Masyhur Hilmy and Benjamin Marx)

Wednesday, October 7, 2020 - 3:00pm
Virtual
Sponsored By: 
Center for Governance and Markets: Virtual Seminar Series

The Economics of Race and Identity: Virtual Seminar Series

Islam and the State: Religious Education in the Age of Mass Schooling
(with Masyhur Hilmy and Benjamin Marx)

Samuel Bazzi
Core Faculty, Global Development Policy Center
Assistant Professor, Economics
Boston University

Wednesday October 7 @ 3:00pm EST

07 Oct 2020

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American Muslim Poll 2020

Thursday, October 8, 2020 (All day) to Thursday, October 22, 2020 (All day)
Virtual
Sponsored By: 
Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU)

On October 1st, we published American Muslim Poll 2020: Amid Pandemic and Protest, the fifth annual poll of attitudes and policy preferences on issues concerning American Muslims across faith and non-faith groups. (And there's still time to register for our webinar on civic engagement today!) This nationally representative survey includes groundbreaking data on Americans who are Muslim, Jewish, Protestant, Catholic, white Evangelicals, and non-affiliated. This research will inform journalists, policymakers, advocates, organizers, educators, and the general public for years to come.

Contact: 
info@ispu.org

21 Oct 2020

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Book Talk: Truth Over Fear: Combating the Lies About Islam

Wednesday, October 21, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
online
Sponsored By: 
Prince Alwaheed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding

12 PM - 1:30 PM Eastern Standard Time

24 Sep 2020

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The Israel-UAE-Bahrain-US Deal: Causes and Implications of Normalization

Thursday, September 24, 2020 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
online
Sponsored By: 
Palestine Center

2 - 3 PM EST

Contact: 
info@thejerusalemfund.org

14 Oct 2020

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Why the Islamic World Is Central to the History of Plague

Wednesday, October 14, 2020 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm
online
Sponsored By: 
McGill Social Studies of Medicine

Historical scholarship on the Black Death, inaugurated in the 1830s by European historians and medical authors, has since developed into one of the most prolific industries serving both the academy and the general public. That body of scholarship—an artifact of nineteenth-century Eurocentric and colonialist historiography—resulted in a virtual consensus, still in force, as to the temporospatial definition of past pandemics, as well as their causes and effects on societies that experienced them.

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