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Co-Host Jess Ghannam interviews Professors Sunaina Maira and Magid Shihade about South Asia-Palestine Solidarity and the forgotten Palestinian communities living in 1948 Palestine.
Sunaina Maira is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at UC Davis and the author of Desis in the House: Indian American Youth
Co-Host Jess Ghannam interviews Professors Sunaina Maira and Magid Shihade about South Asia-Palestine Solidarity and the forgotten Palestinian communities living in 1948 Palestine.
Culture in New York City. She is co-editor of Youthscapes: The Popular, the National, the Global and Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America, which won the American Book Award in 1997. She is currently working on a book about the South Asian Muslim immigrant youth and issues of citizenship and empire after 9/11. Maira was one of the founding organizers of Youth Solidarity Summer, a program for young activists of South Asian descent; Diasporadics, a festival of arts and activism in New York; and the South Asian Committee on Human Rights (SACH), a grassroots group that works on issues of post-9/11 civil and immigrant rights in the Boston area.
Magid Shihade completed his PhD in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Washington. Currently, he is a visiting scholar at UC-Davis at the Middle East/South Asian Studies program. His research is on communal/ethnic violence in Israel. He also teaches a class at Berkeley City College on Modern Middle East.
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