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SUMMARY:Makan x TNI  - ‘Framing Palestine: Israel\, the Gulf states\, and American power in the Middle East’ - Online Lecture
DESCRIPTION:This joint online webinar by Makan & TNI provides an overview of Adam Hanieh’s article\, “Framing Palestine: Israel\, the Gulf states\, and American power in the Middle East”\, featured as a part of TNI’s Palestine Liberation Series.This session will: \n\nPresent an alternative approach to understanding Palestine that is framed by the wider region and the Middle East’s central place in our fossil fuel-centred world. \nArgues that the unstinting support for Israel cannot be comprehended outside of this framework\nSituate the fast-evolving relationships between the Gulf\, Israel\, and the US as essential to understanding the current moment\n\nThe session will include a 45 minute talk and a short Q&A. It will take place on Wednesday 11th February\, 6.00pm London time. \nRegistration form: https://forms.gle/MBwFemQa2gHKcheR6
URL:https://www.makan.org.uk/event/makan-x-tni-framing-palestine-israel-the-gulf-states-and-american-power-in-the-middle-east-online-lecture/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260224T190000
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SUMMARY:Settler Colonialism & Ecological Violence in Palestine Online (Part 1)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this two-part workshop series exploring how we can situate Palestine in relation to the climate crisis and ecological violence. We encourage you to attend both workshops\, but you can also choose to attend only one. \nThis workshop aims to deepen understanding of settler colonialism as the driver of land and natural resource destruction in Palestine. The workshop will expand how we think of violence\,  and explore how settler colonialism both disrupts Indigenous people’s sovereignty over land as well as weaponises natural resources and ‘greenwashing’ to conceal settler violence. Through this\, the session will provide a strong foundation for understanding and articulating ecological violence in Palestine.   \nThis series builds on our previous lecture ‘Framing Palestine: Israel\, the Gulf\, and American Power in the Middle East’ with the Transnational Institute and Adam Hanieh\, to deepen our understanding of the themes presented there. The sessions prioritise interactivity and invite participants to engage in close reading of texts and images in group discussions\, and are interspersed with lecturing.  \nThis workshop is suitable for people who are involved in the climate justice movement and would like to learn more about how it applies to the context of Palestine\, and/or for people who are involved in the Palestinian liberation movement and would like to learn more about how climate justice is central to it. \nApply for your spot here
URL:https://www.makan.org.uk/event/settler-colonialism-ecological-violence-in-palestine-online-part-1/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260310T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260310T210000
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SUMMARY:Connecting Israel\, Imperialism & the Climate Crisis Online (Part 2)
DESCRIPTION:This second part of the workshop series aims to deepen knowledge on imperialism as a framework to analyse the connection between Palestine and the climate crisis. The session will dive into the relationship between imperialism and resource extraction in Palestine and the wider Arab region. It will also touch upon other contexts to show how global imperialism aims to profit from over-consuming natural resources\, and how this both fuels the climate crisis and shapes the contemporary situation in Palestine today.  \nThis series builds on our previous lecture ‘Framing Palestine: Israel\, the Gulf\, and American Power in the Middle East’ with the Transnational Institute and Adam Hanieh\, to deepen our understanding of the themes presented there. The sessions prioritise interactivity and invite participants to engage in close reading of texts and images in group discussions\, and are interspersed with lecturing.  \nThis workshop is suitable for people who are involved in the climate justice movement and would like to learn more about how it applies to the context of Palestine\, and/or for people who are involved in the Palestinian liberation movement and would like to learn more about how climate justice is central to it. We encourage you to attend both workshops\, but you can also choose to attend only one. \nApply for your spot here
URL:https://www.makan.org.uk/event/connecting-israel-imperialism-the-climate-crisis-online/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260324T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260324T203000
DTSTAMP:20260410T070311
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SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED - Framing Israeli Apartheid: Uses and Limitations for Palestine Advocacy (Online)
DESCRIPTION:‘Framing Israeli Apartheid: Uses and Limitations for Palestine Advocacy’\n\nThis workshop has been rescheduled and we will be posting a new date soon!\n\nThis online workshop for Israeli Apartheid Week offers a comprehensive understanding of apartheid\, illustrating how Israel’s policies meet the legal definition of apartheid under international law. This workshop also aims to help activists develop a critical understanding of some of the limitations of the apartheid framework\, and how to utilise it strategically alongside frameworks of settler colonialism and occupation in advocacy. \n\n‘Framing Israeli Apartheid’ prioritises lecturing\, with opportunities for light interactivity and questions to the facilitators interspersed.\n\n\nWho Is This Workshop For?\n\nThis workshop is suitable for people who would like to build their core\, foundational knowledge about Palestinian history and the Palestinian struggle\, and to learn how to utilise this foundational knowledge to communicate effectively about Palestine to others.\n\nAs an organisation our primary focus is to work with student activists\, trade unionists\, social justice campaigners and journalists based in Britain & Ireland. We do also encourage applications from other individuals who are:\n\n\nActive and engaged with Palestine outside Britain & Ireland\nInvolved with other social justice struggles/human rights struggles looking to start/get more involved in Palestine\nDiaspora Palestinians and Palestinians based abroad or planning to study/work abroad\n\nApply here to secure your spot
URL:https://www.makan.org.uk/event/framing-israeli-apartheid-uses-and-limitations-for-palestine-advocacy-online/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260401T180000
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SUMMARY:Reframing Palestine with Makan - Casa Palestina
DESCRIPTION:Get your tickets to the event here \nExploring key frameworks of the Palestinian struggle\, Nakba\, occupation\, apartheid and the peace process through history and discussion. \n\n\n\nIn this training\, we delve into the key frameworks and concepts through which the Palestinian struggle can be understood\, such as settler-colonialism\, occupation\, apartheid\, the peace process\, Nakba\, and more. Through interweaving a historical and conceptual analysis of the trajectory of the Palestinian cause\, this workshop offers a critical understanding of Palestine\, its history\, and the discourse around it. \nThis session includes breaks and is a combination of lecture\, interactive group discussion\, and close readings. \nIf you have any access needs\, please do let us know on the Eventbrite form so we can make adjustments to help everyone participate as fully as possible. \nR. Gilberto Rola 24Lisboa\, Lisboa \nWednesday\, April 1 from 6 pm to 8 pm
URL:https://www.makan.org.uk/event/reframing-palestine-with-makan-casa-palestina/
LOCATION:R. Gilberto Rola 24\, R. Gilberto Rola 24\, Lisboa\, 1350-154 Lisboa\, Portugal
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260415T191500
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SUMMARY:Genocide Inside & Outside of the Prison: A talk with Lena Meari & Basil Farraj on the Palestinian condition and Israel’s carceral regime (Online)
DESCRIPTION:Register your spot here \nPrisons are a focal site for understanding Palestine and the wider Palestinian condition. Imprisonment as a central tactic helps us see how Israel turns Palestinian land and lives into spaces to criminalise\, while using the prison itself as a space of brutal experimentation and extermination. \nIn the last few years\, numerous reports have emerged detailing the horrific treatment of imprisoned Palestinian children\, women and men. Imprisonment has been used as a long standing colonial British and Israeli strategy to break Palestinian bonds and capacity to overcome settler colonial violence and live in freedom and dignity\, but since the ongoing genocide in Gaza there is an escalation in the employment of violence\, particularly sexual violence\, turning prisons into a space to accelerate its genocide against the Palestinian people.  \nOur upcoming online conversation with Lena Meari and Basil Farraj will be unpacking the role of the colonial carceral regime\, the specificity of Israel as a carceral state and its shifting tactics within prisons\, how  gender and sexuality are deployed in prisons\, and the centrality of prisoners and sumud within the Palestinian struggle. \nAbout Lena Meari \nLena is an associate professor of cultural anthropology at the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Institute of Women’s Studies at Birzeit University\, Palestine. She received her PhD in Cultural Anthropology with a Designated Emphasis in Feminist Theory and Research from the University of California\, Davis. Her special interests lie in the geopolitics of knowledge production; subject formation in colonial contexts; de-colonial feminist theory and methodology; and formations of sumud in the Palestinian context. Her publications include “Sumud: A Palestinian Philosophy of Confrontation in Colonial Prisons”\, “Re-signifying `Sexual` Colonial Power Techniques: The Experiences of Palestinian Women Political Prisoners”\, and the co-edited books “Rethinking Gender in Revolutions and Resistance: Lessons from the Arab World” and “The Politics of Engaged Gender Research in the Arab Region”. \nAbout Basil Farraj \nBasil is the Director of the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Institute of International Studies\, and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural studies\, Birzeit University. Basil’s research addresses the intersections of memory\, resistance\, and art by prisoners and others at the receiving end of violence. He has conducted research in several countries including Chile\, Colombia\, and Palestine. \nAbout Makan: \nMakan is an independent\, non-partisan organisation dedicated to interconnected learning. Our approach is grounded in a belief that education is a liberatory act that can lay the ground for structural change. Situating Palestine within the context of other human rights\, social justice and global liberation movements\, we work towards transformation by adopting educational approaches that capture the history of the Palestinian struggle and the realities on the ground. We aim to support advocates as part of a community that is not only well-informed\, interconnected\, and empowered\, but passionately committed to cultivating a future for Palestinians built on freedom\, justice\, and dignity.
URL:https://www.makan.org.uk/event/genocide-inside-outside-of-the-prison-a-talk-with-lena-meari-basil-farraj-on-the-palestinian-condition-and-israels-carceral-regime-online/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260418T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260418T163000
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SUMMARY:How To Talk About Palestine (Makan & Walsall Kobar Friendship Association)
DESCRIPTION:Looking to get into conversations about Palestine but not sure where to start? This in-person event is perfect for you! We’ll dive into ways to discuss the topic openly\, respectfully\, and effectively. Come connect\, learn\, and share your thoughts in a chill\, welcoming space. Don’t miss out on this chance to boost your confidence and understanding. See you there! \nThis workshop will develop our skills in talking about Palestine and discuss how to effectively debunk various recurring Zionist claims. \nSaturday April 18th – 1pm to 4:30pm \nReserve your free spot here
URL:https://www.makan.org.uk/event/how-to-talk-about-palestine-makan-walsall-kobar-friendship-association/
LOCATION:The Crossing at St Pauls\, The Crossing at St Pauls\, Darwall St\, Walsall\, WS1 1DA
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260428T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260428T203000
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SUMMARY:Makan - Communications & Advanced Debating (Online)
DESCRIPTION:This workshop aims to provide attendees with skills and tools to engage with different audiences and to effectively deal with difficult questions in potentially high-pressured situations. Each participant will put their knowledge and communication skills to practice by engaging in a one-on-one debate roleplay with Makan facilitators. Each debate is then followed by detailed facilitated feedback. \nTuesday 28th April\, 6:30-8:30pm \nRegister your spot here \n 
URL:https://www.makan.org.uk/event/makan-communications-advanced-debating-online/
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