Centering Palestine: Black Internationalism from South Africa to Palestine

Centering Palestine is a four-part conversation series curated by Khury Petersen-Smith. This particular session will feature the co-author of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New Commune, Eman Abdelhadi.

Eman Abdelhadi is an Palestinian-Egyptian American public intellectual and community organizer. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. Her academic work focuses on American Muslim communities and specifically women’s participation and exclusion in these communities. She focuses on intersections of gender, sexuality, politics and religion. Eman was born in Columbia, Missouri. Her mother is from Egypt and her father is from Palestine, and they met in the United States. Eman spent her early childhood in Egypt while also living shortly in Saudi Arabia. She is the co-author of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New Commune 2052 - 2072

Khury Petersen-Smith is the Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow and…