Whose Knowledge Is It?
2025-06-17
This session that will focus around unpacking indigeneity through a decolonial lens, creating space for dialogue that challenges dominant narratives and centres indigenous Palestinian perspectives and knowledges for the ‘Whose Knowledge Is It?’ conference with Students at Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.
The conference invites students, educators, researchers, and community organisers to engage critically with questions of decolonising education, epistemic justice, and knowledge production. Through panels, collaborative sessions, and open dialogue, we aim to explore how power operates in and beyond the academy, and how we might collectively reimagine more equitable and plural forms of knowing.
Hosted by students at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, and members of the Cambridge Interfaith Programme, this one-day event will create space for reflection, resistance, and rethinking how knowledge is defined, shared, and valued. Register here.

Queer Cinema for Palestine 2025: No Pride in Genocide
2025-06-19 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Pelican House, London, E1 5QJ
Makan’s Outreach & Programmes Manager, Sarona, will participate on a panel for Queer Cinema for Palestine as part of the 2025 global film festival during Pride month curated by PACBI, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.
While Israel attempts to instrumentalise our identities as queer people to “pinkwash” its image as it commits genocide against Palestinians, we re-affirm that there’s no pride in genocide.
No-one is free until we’re all free!
Programme
* Refreshments from 6.30pm
* Films start 7pm.
* We will show 8 short films in total, using a projector
* There will be a break half way through
* After the break we’ll hear briefly from speakers on the themes of queer solidarity with Palestine and cultural boycott activism
* After the last few films are screened, you’re welcome to stay and hang out
Speakers
– Samir Eskanda, a Palestinian artist, organizer, and human rights activist based in the UK.
– Sarona Bedwan, Outreach & Programmes Manager at Makan, a Palestinian-led organisation that provides transformative education aimed at strengthening the movement for Palestinian liberation.
– Marwan Kaabour, a graphic designer, artist and writer, and the founder of Takweer – an online archive of queer narratives in Arab history and popular culture.
Tickets
* Free (unwaged) – 10 available
* £3 (low income) – 10 available
* £7 (standard) – 50 available
* £12 (solidarity) – 30 available
Buy your tickets here
All money raised after covering costs will be split three ways between LFP, QFP and Al Qaws (a Palestinian grassroots organisation for sexual and gender diversity (alqaws.org)

How to Talk About Palestine Workshop (inspired by The Table by Aisha Zia)
2025-06-21 12:00 - 14:00 (Europe/London)
We will run a specially adapted version of our ‘How to Talk About Palestine’ workshop to compliment Aisha Zia’s play, The Table. The workshop will help you expand your skills when talking about Palestine and conversations around migration by offering communication tips on how to engage in such conversations, and by building your confidence to know how to respond to various arguments. Register here.
Important: There are three small steps to the workshop room. Please contact us directly should you have access requirements.

Makan - The Two-State Solution: State-Building as Pacification (Online Mini Lecture)
2025-06-25 18:30 - 19:30 (Europe/London)
About this Mini Lecture:
With conversations about a two-state solution and establishing a Palestinian state picking up again between various Western powers and Saudi Arabia, this session aims to provide a critical historical overview of how the two-state framework emerged, from the Partition Plan to the Oslo Accords to the Abraham Accords to the new proposed French-Saudi conference. Through this, the session will explore how this framework as conceptualised by Western powers aims to co-opt the Palestinian struggle and entrench Israel’s power.

The session will include a 40 minute talk and a short Q&A.

Register here

Wednesday 25th June 2025, 6.30-7.30pm (BST)

** Deadline for completion – Monday 23rd June, 6pm London time **

Pinkwashing, Gender and Sexuality with Makan and Birkbeck Institute of Gender and Sexuality (Public Lecture)
2025-07-04 10:00 - 12:00 (Europe/London) | Birkbeck Central
Join us for a public lecture on the historical and contemporary counterpoints of pinkwashing, jointly organised by the Birkbeck Institute of Gender and Sexuality and Makan, whose transformative education strengthens the movement for Palestinian liberation. The lecture will contextualise pinkwashing as a conflation of queerness and nationalist ideology, or the “queer branding” of racism, xenophobia, and Islamophobia. Makan will draw on archival materials and anti-colonial strands of gender theory, attending to topics such as white savourism, colonial masculinities, gay assimilation and queer resistance. Birkbeck postgraduate researchers have the opportunity to remain for an afternoon workshop with Makan on anti-colonial research skills, collaborating to develop interdisciplinary theoretical knowledge and methods for analysing, evaluating, and resisting pinkwashing.
Speakers

Dr Penn Newell Penn Newell (they/them) is a queer writer, researcher and Lecturer in Creative & Critical Writing at Birkbeck, University of London. Some of their writing can be found here.
Sarona Bedwan – Sarona Bedwan is a writer and Outreach & Programmes Manager at Makan, a Palestinian led educational organisation.

When: 4 July 2025, 10:00 — 12:00
Venue: Birkbeck Central
Book your place

Zionism, Gender, and Sexuality Workshop 1 (Gender, Sexuality, and Anti-Colonial Struggle in Palestine)
2025-07-09 18:30 - 20:30 (Europe/London)
Workshop 1: Zionism, Gender, and Sexuality – Wednesday 9th July, 6:30-8:30pm – online
In the first part of our four-part ‘Gender, Sexuality, and Anti-Colonial Struggle in Palestine’ workshop series, we examine the relationship between colonialism and gender broadly, and examine how this applies in the context of Palestine. This workshop will focus specifically on the role of gender in the construction of Israeli society historically, during the early days of the Zionist movement and the foundation of the Israeli state, before examining how the role of gender in Israeli society has adapted and shifted over time, co-opting progressive ideas but maintaining these same colonial goals.
You’re more than welcome to choose any or all of these workshops to attend, however we highly encourage you to attend all sessions as they directly build on one another.
Register here: https://forms.gle/nj1ux3hLqCEFdf3a8
Wednesday 9th July, 6:30-8:30pm (London time) – Zoom
Deadline: Wednesday 2nd July

Israel’s Weaponisation of Gender & Sexuality Workshop 2 (Gender, Sexuality, & Anti-Colonial Struggle in Palestine)
2025-07-23 18:30 - 20:30 (Europe/London)
Workshop 2: Israel’s Weaponisation of Gender & Sexuality
In the second part of this series, this workshop aims to promote a deeper understanding of gender and sexuality not just as social issues but as material and political issues in the Palestinian context. This session specifically examines how Zionism constructs racist, colonial stereotypes of Palestinian men and women, and weaponises gender stereotypes of masculinity and femininity to further the oppression of Palestinians.
Register here: https://forms.gle/nj1ux3hLqCEFdf3a8
Wednesday 23rd July, 6:30-8:30pm – Zoom
Deadline: Wednesday 16 July

Palestinian Resistance to Gendered, Sexual and Colonial Oppression Workshop 3 (Gender, Sexuality, and Anti-Colonial Struggle in Palestine)
2025-08-06 18:30 - 20:30 (Europe/London)
Workshop 3: Palestinian Resistance to Gendered, Sexual and Colonial Oppression
In the third part of this workshop series, this workshop focuses on Palestinian resistance to gendered and sexual oppression, highlighting feminist and queer Palestinian movements and organising. By situating gender and sexuality as central to the Palestinian struggle, we will discuss how the Palestinian anti-colonial resistance has historically gone hand in hand with struggling against internal patriarchal structures as well as Israel’s weaponisation of gendered stereotypes.
Register here: https://forms.gle/nj1ux3hLqCEFdf3a8
Wednesday 6th August, 6:30-8:30pm – Zoom
Deadline: Wednesday 30 July

How to Talk About Gender, Sexuality, & Palestine Workshop 4 (Gender, Sexuality, and Anti-Colonial Struggle in Palestine)
2025-08-20 18:30 - 20:30 (Europe/London)
Workshop 4: How to Talk About Gender, Sexuality, & Palestine
This workshop aims to help people expand their skills when talking about Palestine in relation to topics of gender and sexuality by offering communication tips on how to engage in such conversations and how to respond to various arguments. Through facilitating a safe discussion space, we go through a variety of recurring talking points regularly heard in the media and the wider public conversation on this topic, and we collectively analyse these arguments and how to respond to them.
Register here: https://forms.gle/nj1ux3hLqCEFdf3a8
Wednesday 20th August, 6:30-8:30pm – Zoom
Deadline: Wednesday 13 August

Palestine 101 series: Palestinian History - Session 1: Reframing Palestine
2025-09-02 18:30 - 20:30 (Europe/London)
This workshop is part of our Palestine 101 series: Palestinian History. In this workshop we delve into the key frameworks and concepts through which the Palestinian struggle can be understood, such as Nakba, settler-colonialism, occupation, intifada, peace process, 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.
Tuesday 2nd September – 6:30-8:30pm London time
Register here
These two sessions are part of a broader Palestine 101 series designed to deepen participants’ understanding of the Palestinian struggle and equip them with the tools to advocate effectively for justice in Palestine. While attending both sessions is highly encouraged, participants are welcome to join either one.

Palestine 101 series: Palestinian History – Session 2: How to talk about Palestinian History
2025-09-16 18:30 - 20:30 (Europe/London)
This workshop is the second session as part of our Palestine 101 series: Palestinian History. It builds on the ‘Reframing Palestine’ session, focusing on how the key concepts from that session can be effectively communicated. Through facilitating a safe discussion space, we go through a couple of recurring talking points regularly heard in the mainstream media and the wider public conversation distorting Palestinian history, and we collectively analyse these arguments and how to respond to and debunk them.
Tuesday 16th September – 6:30-8:30pm London time
Register here
These two sessions are part of a broader Palestine 101 series designed to deepen participants’ understanding of the Palestinian struggle and equip them with the tools to advocate effectively for justice in Palestine. While attending both sessions is highly encouraged, participants are welcome to join either one.

Palestine 101 series: Settler colonialism & Imperialism – Session 1: Local & Global: Palestine as Indigenous and Anti-Imperialist Struggle
2025-10-14 18:30 - 20:30 (Europe/London)
This workshop is part of our Palestine 101 series: Palestinian History. In this workshop, we explore the concepts of indigeneity, settler-colonialism, and imperialism to understand Palestine as both a local Indigenous struggle for decolonisation as well as part of a global anti-imperialist struggle.
Tuesday 14 October – 6:30-8:30pm London time
Register here
Deadline to register: 7th October, 6pm London time
These two sessions are part of a broader Palestine 101 series designed to deepen participants’ understanding of the Palestinian struggle and equip them with the tools to advocate effectively for justice in Palestine. While attending both sessions is highly encouraged, participants are welcome to join either one.

A Conversation on Big Tech & Genocide (In person) - Makan, 7amleh, & Al-Kindi Club
2025-10-15 19:00 - 20:30 (Europe/London) | Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Pl, Tyburnia, W2 1QJ
Join 7amleh, Makan, and Al-Kindi Club for a moderated conversation on Big Tech’s complicity in the genocide—from silencing Palestinian voices and amplifying harmful content, to the weaponization of AI, the deplatforming of Gaza fundraisers, and the systemic exclusion from financial services like PayPal.

Secure your space here

Speakers:
Rasha Abdul-Rahim (Senior Campaign Director, Own the Space)
Nadim Nashif (Executive Director, 7amleh)

Event Info:

Wednesday, October 15th 7-8:30pm @ Frontline Club (13 Norfolk Pl, Tyburnia, London W2 1QJ)

Vietnam, Algeria, Palestine: Passing on the torch of the anti-colonial struggle (Makan x TNI)
2025-10-16 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/London)
This joint online webinar by Makan & Transnational Institute provides an overview of Hamza Hamouchene’s article, “Vietnam, Algeria, Palestine: Passing on the torch of the anti-colonial struggle”, featured as a part of TNI’s wider Palestine Liberation Series. This session will:

Examine the impact of the Algerian and Vietnamese struggles on the Palestinian struggle for freedom
Explore the protracted nature of struggle: how different events, periods, and moments of rupture build on one another to achieve liberation
Reflect on how these histories of anti-imperialist struggle provide lessons and strategies for our movements today.

The session will include a 40 minute talk and a short Q&A.
Thursday 16th October 5pm GMT/6PM BST/ 7PM EST.
Register your spot here

How to Talk About Palestine (In person) - Platforma Festival
2025-10-25 13:30 - 15:30 (Europe/London) | Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery, 51 Priestgate, Peterborough, PE1 1LF, United Kingdom
Join us on Saturday 25th October as we deliver our How to Talk About Palestine workshop as part of The Peterborough programme with 62 Gladstone Street. This workshop is designed to help you speak more confidently and effectively about Palestine—particularly when responding to difficult questions or dominant narratives.
The session will offer communication strategies, tips for navigating challenging conversations, and insight into the most common talking points.
Platforma is a biennial event produced by Counterpoints Arts, showcasing bold, innovative work by artists from refugee backgrounds and creative projects with displaced communities. The Peterborough programme is part of the wider festival taking place across the East of England this October, fostering local connections and conversations around culture, identity, and belonging
62 Gladstone Street is a community-rooted arts space in the heart of Peterborough, with a particular focus on supporting South Asian and MENA artists. Through exhibitions, residencies, and public programmes, it provides a vital platform for underrepresented voices and fosters meaningful dialogue between artists and the wider community.
62 Gladstone Street presents this workshop as part of the wider PLATFORMA FESTIVAL with Counterpoints Arts & Supported by Arts Council England
Get your free tickets here

Palestine 101 series: Settler Colonialism & Imperialism - Session 2: How to Talk About Settler Colonialism & Imperialism
2025-10-28 18:30 - 20:30 (Europe/London)
This workshop is part of our Palestine 101 series: Palestinian History. This workshop builds on the previous workshop, focusing on how the key ideas from that session can be effectively communicated. Through facilitating a safe discussion space, we go through a couple of recurring talking points regularly heard in the mainstream media and the wider pro-Israel conversation about indigeneity, colonialism, and imperialism, and we collectively analyse these arguments and how to respond to and debunk them.
Tuesday 28 October – 6:30-8:30pm London time
Deadline to register: 21st October, 6pm (BST)
Register here
These two sessions are part of a broader Palestine 101 series designed to deepen participants’ understanding of the Palestinian struggle and equip them with the tools to advocate effectively for justice in Palestine. While attending both sessions is highly encouraged, participants are welcome to join either one.

Palestine 101 series: Israeli Apartheid - Session 1: Framing Israeli Apartheid: Uses and Limitations for Palestine Advocacy
2025-11-11 18:30 - 20:30 (Europe/London)
This workshop is part of our Palestine 101 series. In this workshop, we offer 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 work.
Tuesday 11 November – 6:30-8:30pm London time
These two sessions are part of a broader Palestine 101 series designed to deepen participants’ understanding of the Palestinian struggle and equip them with the tools to advocate effectively for justice in Palestine. While attending both sessions is highly encouraged, participants are welcome to join either one.
Apply here

Palestine 101 series: Israeli Apartheid – Session 2: How to talk about Israeli Apartheid
2025-11-25 18:30 - 20:30 (Europe/London)
This workshop builds on the previous session, focusing on how the reality of Israeli apartheid can be effectively communicated. Through facilitating a safe discussion space, we go through a couple of recurring talking points regularly heard in the mainstream media denying Israeli apartheid, and we collectively analyse these arguments and how to respond to and debunk them.
Tuesday 25th November – 6:30-8:30pm London time
These two sessions are part of a broader Palestine 101 series aiming to build people’s knowledge on the Palestinian struggle and how to effectively advocate for Palestine.
Apply here

The Role of Women in Palestinian Resistance
2025-12-08 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | William Morris Community Centre, 6-8 Greenleaf Road, London, E17 6QQ
We will be delivering this event and exploring the role of women in Palestinian resistance. This event will explore Palestinian resistance to gendered oppression, highlighting Palestinian women’s movements and organising.
By situating gender as central to the Palestinian struggle, we will discuss how the Palestinian anti-colonial resistance has historically gone hand in hand with struggling against internal patriarchal structures as well as Israel’s weaponisation of gendered stereotypes.
Reserve your spot here

How to Talk About Palestine Workshop
2026-01-31 12:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | Colliton Club, Dorset Room, Dorchester, DT1 1XS
Organised by Dorset PSC and Makan, this two-part workshop offers both a deep foundation in understanding Palestine and practical tools for speaking about it with clarity and confidence. Reserve your free spot here.
Workshop 1 – Understanding the Palestinian Struggle
We begin by establishing core frameworks and concepts through which Palestine can be understood, including settler-colonialism, occupation, apartheid, the Nakba, the peace process, and more. Through a combination of historical overview and conceptual analysis, participants gain a grounded, critical understanding of the roots of the Palestinian cause, its evolution, and the narratives that surround it.
Workshop 2 – Skills for Challenging Conversations
Building on this foundation, the second workshop focuses on how to confidently navigate discussions about Palestine in public, personal, or professional settings. Participants will explore common arguments and misconceptions frequently seen in media and public discourse, analyse how these narratives operate, and develop effective strategies to respond to them.
This will be a supportive, safe discussion space where participants learn from one another while building practical talking points and conversational skills.
Who is this for?
These workshops are suitable for participants with foundational or advanced understanding of Palestine who want to deepen their knowledge, strengthen their analysis, and gain confidence in addressing mainstream narratives.
Donations welcome
The workshop is free for a limited number of spaces. Donations are welcome on the day to help us cover costs.

Makan x TNI - ‘Framing Palestine: Israel, the Gulf states, and American power in the Middle East’ - Online Lecture
2026-02-11 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/London)
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:

Present 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.
Argues that the unstinting support for Israel cannot be comprehended outside of this framework
Situate the fast-evolving relationships between the Gulf, Israel, and the US as essential to understanding the current moment

The session will include a 45 minute talk and a short Q&A. It will take place on Wednesday 11th February, 6.00pm London time.
Registration form: https://forms.gle/MBwFemQa2gHKcheR6

Settler Colonialism & Ecological Violence in Palestine Online (Part 1)
2026-02-24 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London)
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.
This 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.
This 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.
This 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.
Apply for your spot here

Connecting Israel, Imperialism & the Climate Crisis Online (Part 2)
2026-03-10 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London)
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.
This 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.
This 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.
Apply for your spot here

RESCHEDULED - Framing Israeli Apartheid: Uses and Limitations for Palestine Advocacy (Online)
2026-03-24 18:30 - 20:30 (Europe/London)
‘Framing Israeli Apartheid: Uses and Limitations for Palestine Advocacy’

This workshop has been rescheduled and we will be posting a new date soon!

This 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.

‘Framing Israeli Apartheid’ prioritises lecturing, with opportunities for light interactivity and questions to the facilitators interspersed.

Who Is This Workshop For?

This 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.

As 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:

Active and engaged with Palestine outside Britain & Ireland
Involved with other social justice struggles/human rights struggles looking to start/get more involved in Palestine
Diaspora Palestinians and Palestinians based abroad or planning to study/work abroad

Apply here to secure your spot

Reframing Palestine with Makan - Casa Palestina
2026-04-01 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Lisbon) | R. Gilberto Rola 24, R. Gilberto Rola 24, Lisboa, 1350-154 Lisboa, Portugal
Get your tickets to the event here
Exploring key frameworks of the Palestinian struggle, Nakba, occupation, apartheid and the peace process through history and discussion.

In 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.
This session includes breaks and is a combination of lecture, interactive group discussion, and close readings.
If 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.
R. Gilberto Rola 24Lisboa, Lisboa
Wednesday, April 1 from 6 pm to 8 pm

Genocide Inside & Outside of the Prison: A talk with Lena Meari & Basil Farraj on the Palestinian condition and Israel’s carceral regime (Online)
2026-04-15 18:00 - 19:15 (Europe/London)
Register your spot here
Prisons 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.
In 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.
Our 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.
About Lena Meari
Lena 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”.
About Basil Farraj
Basil 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.
About Makan:
Makan 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.

How To Talk About Palestine (Makan & Walsall Kobar Friendship Association)
2026-04-18 13:30 - 16:30 (Europe/London) | The Crossing at St Pauls, The Crossing at St Pauls, Darwall St, Walsall, WS1 1DA
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!
This workshop will develop our skills in talking about Palestine and discuss how to effectively debunk various recurring Zionist claims.
Saturday April 18th – 1pm to 4:30pm
Reserve your free spot here

Makan - Communications & Advanced Debating (Online)
2026-04-28 18:30 - 20:30 (Europe/London)
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.
Tuesday 28th April, 6:30-8:30pm
Register your spot here

Makan - Palestine, Gender and Sexuality (Warwick for Palestine)
2026-05-06 15:30 - 17:30 (Europe/London)
Join us with Warwick for Palestine on a talk about gender and sexuality in Palestine! This workshop explores gender and sexuality not just as social issues but as material and political issues in the Palestinian context. The session will examine how Zionism constructs racist, colonial stereotypes of Palestinian men and women to further the oppression of Palestinians. It will also highlight Palestinian resistance to gendered and sexual oppression, highlighting feminist and queer Palestinian organising and how it has always gone hand in hand with anti-colonial resistance.
Wednesday 6th May 3:30 – 5:30pm

NSUN with Makan - Madness & Palestinian Liberation Part 1 (Online)
2026-05-06 16:00 - 17:30 (Europe/London)
Mad Campaigns Lab is a space for NSUN members (individuals with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress, and/or trauma, as well as grassroots, user-led mental health groups).
Madness & Palestinian Liberation (with Makan)
Part 1: 6th May, 4.00-5.30pm. Panel & discussion
How are Disability Justice and Palestinian Liberation interlinked? How does settler colonialism work to shape experiences of mental ill-health & madness? Join NSUN and guest speakers from Makan to learn more.
This session will include a presentation and discussion between NSUN and Makan. This first half will be recorded but this will not include participants’ names or faces. After the break we will take questions from the audience, which will not be recorded.

Sign up for Part 1
