Talk with Omar Barghouti, co-founder of BDS
Co-founder of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), Omar Barghouti, is visiting Folkets Hus for a talk on academic and cultural boycott in conversation with Nadim Haidar.
Omar Barghouti is a Palestinian human rights defender, co-founder of the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and recipient of the 2017 Gandhi Peace Award. He holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, NY, and is pursuing a PhD in Philosophy (ethics) at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of, BDS: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights (Haymarket: 2011). His commentaries and views have appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, among others.
Nadim Haidar holds a BA in Political Studies and an MA in Middle Eastern Studies, both from the American University of Beirut. His Master's thesis provided a critical appraisal of the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS), with his broader research interests lying at the intersection of political theory and Middle Eastern history. Haidar has been an organizer and activist for many years and has engaged with numerous movements for social justice, including the climate movement, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and the Lebanese Uprising of 2019. Most recently, he has served as an organizer in Internationalt Forum, focusing on the struggle for justice in Palestine. He is now based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The talk is organised by the research cluster Global Entanglements https://artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/glo…
Location
Folkets HusStengade 50
2200 København N