Writing and researching Palestine: reflections on positionality and decoloniality

About the speaker: Yara Hawari is the Senior Analyst of Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network. She completed her PhD in Middle East Politics at the University of Exeter, where she taught various undergraduate courses and continues to be an honorary research fellow. In addition to her academic work, which focused on indigenous studies and oral history, she is a frequent political commentator writing for various media outlets including The Guardian, Foreign Policy, and Al Jazeera English. Her debut novella, The Stone House, was published in December 2021.

Seminar details: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/writing-and-researching-palestine-reflections-on-positionality-and-decoloniality