Event Details:

Cosponsored event with GenCen: Camelia Suleiman (MSU), “To Be Maqdisi in Jerusalem: Palestinian Women Education”

Camelia Suleiman, Associate Professor, Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures

Friday, Nov. 18, 1:30-3:00 pm, online

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

Registration Link: https://msu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SgptA7eoSCKQ6bbT1EuFrw