LECTURE: Financial Colonization of Palestine: Foundations and Futures
The lecture will examine the financial architecture of Zionist colonization of Palestine. It traces the financial motivations and mechanisms that facilitated the Zionist project from its formative inception in Europe during the late 19th century until its crystallisation into a state in the mid twentieth century. The talk will draw lessons from the past to reflect on the future of financial liberation as a corollary of political liberation.��
Hicham Safieddine is Canada Research Chair in the History of the Modern Middle East and Associate Professor of History at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He is a scholar of financial systems, political economy and intellectual history (19th and 20th centuries) with an emphasis on the Middle East and North Africa region. He is author of Banking on the State: The Financial Foundations of Lebanon (SUP, 2019), editor of Arab Marxism and National Liberation: Selected Writings of Mahdi Amel (Brill, 2020), and co-editor of The Clarion of Syria: A Patriot’s Call against the Civil War of 1860 (CUP, 2019).
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Moderator: Michael Irving Jensen.
Date: Friday, August 8 at 7:00 PM – Doors open at 6:30 PM
Copenhagen University South Campus (KUA), Room 9A.1.01
Address: Karen Blixens Plads 16, 2300 Copenhagen S
Arranged by Internationalt Forum’s Palestine Group, NASIM, Voices of Palestine, Academics f
or Palestine
