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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"
lang="EN">I am emailing you on behalf of the Hearing Palestine
initiative team at the University of Toronto. We are currently
organizing a series of talks that showcases student experiences
and research of Palestinian alumni and affiliates. This
initiative is hosted by Institute of Islamic Studies and is
co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Centre for
the Study of the United States.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN">We’ll be
hosting our first webinar on</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN">March 4,
from 12- 1:30pm EST:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN">Professor
Abdel Razzaq Takriti (University of Houston)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN">“Liberated
Students in a Colonized Campus: Reflections on the Palestinian
Experience at the University of Toronto.”</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN">You can
register at (<a
href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_C8mCPnWDRmGCeuUDPHp6vw"
target="_blank">https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_C8mCPnWDRmGCeuUDPHp6vw</a>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"
lang="EN">Feel free to pass this on to interested people.</span></p>
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lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"
lang="EN">Best wishes,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"
lang="EN">Hearing Palestine Team</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"
lang="EN"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/HearingPalestine"
target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/HearingPalestine</a>
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lang="EN"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span
style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN">“Hearing
Palestine” is a new initiative at the University of Toronto,
that provides a safe space for Palestinians and those
interested in the history & future of Palestine to share
their experience and research. The initiative is designed to
improve the university experience for students enduring, and
concerned about, anti-Palestinian discrimination on campus. We
encourage dialogues on cultural life, artistic creativity<u>,</u>
social justice and current affairs in Canada and the Middle
East from the perspective of Palestine. We are in solidarity
with indigenous struggles everywhere and encourage critical
engagement with settler colonialism, sectarianism and
authoritarianism in the Middle East, Canada and elsewhere.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span
style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%" lang="EN">The first
speaker for "Hearing Palestine" is Abdel Razzaq Takriti, an
Associate Professor, Arab-American Educational Foundation
Chair in Modern Arab History, and Founding Director of the
Arab-American Educational Foundation Center for Arab Studies
at the University of Houston<span
class="gmail-m_-8099770109488853822emailstyle18">.
</span><span style="color:black">During his undergraduate
years at the University of Toronto (1999-2003), he was one
of the founding members of the Arab Students Collective and
was involved in a broad range of anti-racist, anti-colonial
and social justice campaigns.</span></span></i></p>
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