Thursday, May 9, 12:00 PM EDT - Zoom

Understanding Hamas & Why That Matters: Public Conversations Hosted by Rami G. Khouri & Helena Cobban

In May 2024, Just World Ed is presenting a five-part series of public conversations, co-hosted by our board member Rami G. Khouri and president, Helena Cobban, on the topic of “Understanding Hamas and Why That Matters”. In these conversations, we will bring in a variety of experts on different aspects of the history and development of this movement, whose full name is “The Islamic Resistance Movement”, and which plays a significant role within the broader movement for Palestinian national liberation.

This Thursday, May 9, the guest on the "Understanding Hamas" series will be Dr. Khaled Hroub, a Professor in residence with the faculty of liberal arts at Northwestern University in Qatar, whose focus is Middle Eastern studies (and especially the role of Islam in politics,) the Arab-Israeli conflict, and Arab media studies. He was previously was a research associate at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, where he was the founder and director of Cambridge Arab Media Project (CAMP) until 2012.

Dr. Hroub’s many works include Hamas, A Beginner’s Guide, 2nd edn, 2010, and a chapter, “Nothing Fails Like Success: Hamas and the Gaza Explosion” in the recently published book Deluge: Gaza and Israel from Crisis to Cataclysm (OR Books, 2024.)

Note: If you registered for the first webinar in this series, that registration is good for all the sessions, and you'll receive reminders shortly before each is presented. If you did NOT register for the first session you can sign up at any time for the sessions that remain! Use this link to do so.