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A Conversation with Amira Hass: Palestinian Life Under Settler Colonialism and Military Occupation

November 6, 4:00PM | 6 East 16th Street, Room 1103, Wolff Conference Room

Join us for a conversation with acclaimed journalist Amira Hass, titled  “Palestinian Life under Settler Colonialism and Military Occupation”. The event will take place on November 6th at 4pm in Wolff Conference Room (D1103).  

Only members of The New School community are able to attend this event.

Amira Hass is the Haaretz correspondent for the Occupied Territories.  She is the author of Drinking the Sea At Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege (Picador Book, 2000). 

Presented by Race & Mobility: Empire, Settler Colonialism, and Unfinished Decolonization Research Cluster and the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School for Social Research.

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Amira Hass is the Haaretz correspondent for the Occupied Territories.

Born in Jerusalem in 1956, Hass joined Haaretz in 1989, and has been in her current position since 1993. As the correspondent for the territories, she spent three years living in Gaza, which served of the basis for her widely acclaimed book, “Drinking the Sea at Gaza.” She has lived in the West Bank city of Ramallah since 1997.

Hass is also the author of two other books, both of which are compilations of her articles.

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