This episode’s conversation focuses on Palestinian feminism, both as a movement and a lens with which to analyze the extreme violence of Israel’s war on Gaza, as well as the quotidian violence of life under occupation. Whether addressing ever-expanding carceral apparatuses, West Bank settlements, human rights law, or the daily lives of Palestinians, our guest Sarah Ihmoud insists on Palestinian feminism as a life-affirming and future-oriented force that refuses defeat.
Our interviewer is Zinaida Miller, a Professor of Law and International Affairs at Northeastern, whose research focuses on inequality, structural violence, and critical approaches to international law. She is a founding faculty codirector of the Center for Global Law & Justice.
Sarah Ihmoud, our guest, is a sociocultural anthropologist whose research interests lie at the intersections of transnational feminisms; women of color theory; Indigenous and decolonial feminisms; critical race studies; carcerality; and Middle East and Arab American Studies. Her current book project is a feminist ethnography centering Palestinian women’s resistance to colonial and patriarchal violence in occupied East Jerusalem.