This talk has been postponed: the current situation in Israel, Gaza, and Iran is making his participation impossible. We hope to reschedule it to a time in May, if the situation becomes more predictable then.
David Shulman is a philologist and cultural historian specialising in Southern India who is an Emeritus Professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is also a long-term activist in Ta’ayush, an Israeli peace group working in the occupied Palestinian territories, and the author of several books, including Freedom and Despair, published by University of Chicago Press. He has a new book on the Palestinian communities in the South Hebron Hills and the Jordan Valley, published by Intellect Press and co-authored with the photographer Margaret Olin. It’s called The Bitter Landscapes of Palestine and offers a portrait of Palestinian lives under the Occupation.
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