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The Public Life of Prisons: An Interview with Golnar Nikpour
By A. Naomi Paik Golnar Nikpour’s striking new book, The Incarcerated Modern: Prisons and Public Life in Iran (Stanford University Press, 2024), traces the emergence, expansion, and…
Forum 7.0 // People’s University for Gaza, Introduction
It is difficult to capture how the world was utterly transformed since October 7, 2023. In response to Hamas’ Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, Israel unleashed an…
Forum 7.1 // Campus Circulation & Noncirculation: Fall 2024
By Abigail Boggs, Eli Meyerhoff, Nick Mitchell, Zach Schwartz-Weinstein Universities, as we have argued in our collective writing on an abolitionist approach to the study…
Forum 7.2 // The New Age of McCarthyism: The Challenges of Teaching About Palestine in…
By *Rab Shak Simply saying the word “Palestine” usually leads to universal reactions from people – bodies stiffen, words stumble, voices whisper, all in an…
Forum 7.3 // Teaching The Question of Palestine: Interdisciplinary Considerations
By Karam Dana, Maryam Griffin, Dan Berger, Jed Murr, Brinda Sarathy After nearly two months of an unfolding genocide in Gaza, the urgency of holding…
Forum 7.4 // UCSC People’s U Reflections on Kinship, Community, and Care
By Max Sárosi and Sophia Azeb On May 1, 2024, hundreds of University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) students, workers, staff, and faculty gathered for…
Forum 7.5 // Making Meaning of What We’ve Lost: Collective Grief, Community, and Campus Crackdowns in…
By A.B. The day that I ended up at my first rally for Palestine was also the day that I forgot, for a moment, how…
Forum 7.6 // What My College’s Palestine Encampment Taught Me About Love
By zoe ly sen First and foremost, I want to dedicate this essay to Hamed and Sheikh and their children, Ashraf, Rafef, and Rose. They…