Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah discusses his medical missions in depth and provides incisive analysis about the structural violence inflicted on Gaza. He highlights how maiming has been a feature of colonial violence seen today in the systematic amputation of Palestinian children.
Abu-Sittah also draws on the clinical and intellectual work of Frantz Fanon to describe the need to shift away from humanitarian to liberation medicine in order to properly prevail over colonialism in Palestine and beyond.
Featuring:
Prof Ghassan Abu-Sittah is a multi-award-winning plastic and reconstructive surgeon. He is a prominent war surgeon who has selflessly put himself in harm’s way volunteering to treat patients in the most treacherous conflict zones throughout his career, most recently in Gaza. He has championed the cause of war-injured patients, particularly children, with an indomitable spirit and a firm stance for human rights and the freedom of Palestine.
Bassam Haddad is the founding director of the Middle East and Islamic studies programme and associate professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford University Press, 2011) and co-editor of A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2021). Bassam is also co-founder and Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine and executive director of the Arab Studies Institute. He serves as founding editor of the Arab Studies Journal and the Knowledge Production Project. He is co-producer and director of the award-winning documentary film, About Baghdad and director of the acclaimed series Arabs and Terrorism. Currently, Bassam is working on his second Syria book titled Understanding The Syrian Tragedy: Regime, Opposition, Outsiders (forthcoming, Stanford University Press).
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Noura Erakat is a professor of Africana studies and the programme of criminal justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Noura is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019), which received the Palestine Book Award and a bronze medal for the Independent Publishers Book Award in current events or foreign affairs. She is co-founding editor of Jadaliyya and editorial board member of the Journal of Palestine Studies as well as Human Geography. She is a co-founding board member of the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival. She has served as legal counsel for a congressional subcommittee in the US House of Representatives, as legal advocate for the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee and Residency Rights, and as national organiser of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. Noura has also produced video documentaries, including Gaza In Context and Black Palestinian Solidarity. Her writings have appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation, Al Jazeera and the Boston Review.
Produced by: Jadaliyya
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