Public Lecture : Stateless Citizenship

Shourideh C. Molavi
Fifth year Ph.D. candidate at York University in Toronto (Canada) and Visiting Professor at Al-Quds University-Bard in the Department of Human Rights and International Law.

Far from integration into the Israeli incorporation regime, Palestinians inside the state are today placed in a paradoxical situation where, as Arab citizens of a Jewish state, they are both inside and outside, host and guest, citizen and stateless. Through the paradigm of stateless citizenship, Shourideh C. Molavi examines the dynamics of exclusion of Palestinian citizens and analytically frames the mechanisms through which their statelessness is maintained. With this she centres our analytical gaze on the paradox that it is through the actual provision of Israeli citizenship that Palestinians are deemed stateless. Molavi critically engages with the liberal variant of Zionist thought, and deconstructs discourse around minority rights and liberal citizenship in the context of Israel's racialized ideological and political makeup.

Monday the 20th April 2015, 6 pm

Franco-German Cultural Center
Al-Salam street, Ramallah

Monday the 23rd April 2015, 6.30 pm

Institut français Chateaubriand
21 Salah Eddin Street, Jerusalem