Summer 2025
Gaza Writes Her Place
Dates: June 01, 2025 - July 09, 2025Day/Time: Sunday; Tuesday; Wednesday 8:00 AM - 10:15 AM EDT
Level: 200-Level
Certificate: Global Humanities*, Human Rights
Instructor: Raya Naamneh, Al-Quds Bard College
In this online course, students will learn to close read, think, and write attentively with creative texts in various genres, by contemporary Gazan writes (based in Gaza and exile), alongside secondary literature that contextualizes Gaza's historical and current realities. In our course discussions of these texts, we will focus on interrelated themes of language, voice and storytelling, power, colonialism, and race, visibility and representation, positionality and embodiment, and translation.
Credits: 4 US / 8 ECTS