Rabab Abdulhadi, ‘Teaching Palestine: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and Academic Freedom’

Rabab Abdulhadi is an internationally-known scholar and a distinguished professor and researcher. She is director and senior scholar in the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas and associate professor of Ethnic Studies/Race and Resistance Studies at the historic College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University. Before joining SFSU, she served as the first director of the Center for Arab American Studies at the University of Michigan, Dearborn. Her scholarship, pedagogy and public activism focuses on Palestine, Arab and Muslim communities and their diasporas, race and resistance studies, transnational feminisms and gender and sexuality studies.

This event is co-sponsored and supported by the Department of Asian Studies; Department of Women’s and Gender Studies; Department of English Comparative Literature; UNC Students for Justice in Palestine; and Coalition for Peace With Justice.