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Invisible narratives: Israeli imprisonment of Pakistani fighters in the PLC 1971-1985


Date & time
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Speaker(s)

Sabah Haider

Cost

This event is free

Contact

Jennifer Solomon
514-848-2424 ext. 8721

Where

J.W. McConnell Building
1400 De Maisonneuve W.
Room LB-671.00

Wheel chair accessible

Yes

Ms. Haider’s PhD research project investigates alternative histories of the Israeli-Arab conflict, during the 1970s and 80s. Specifically, she will explore the use of Pakistani foreign fighters by the PLO to engage in armed conflict with Israel, and will seek to understand the ideological, political and cultural contexts of the participation of Pakistanis in this conflict. She will highlight and ask how and why complex and transnational histories are excluded from dominant Israeli and Palestinian narratives of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

About the speaker

Sabah Haider is an award-winning filmmaker and writer based between Montreal and Paris. She is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture at Concordia University, and in the Department of Social Anthropology & Ethnology at the EHESS in Paris.

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