Columbia University

7 May 2026

9:30 AM Introduction: Nadia Abu El-Haj

Panel One: Concepts

10 - 11:30 AM

Suleiman Hodali (Stanford), “Saladin and Figurations of the Anti-Zionist Idea”

Sonali Thakkar (NYU), “Regimes of Repair”

Chair: Esmat Elhalaby(Toronto)

Panel Two: Conditions

11:45 - 1:15

Maya Wind (UC Riverside), “Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, Hillel International”

Heike Schotten (UMASS Boston), “Abject Laughter: Anti-Zionism and the End of Israel”

Chair: Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian (Princeton)

Lunch 1:15 - 2:45 PM

Panel Three: Contestations 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Emmaia Gelman (Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism)

Samiha Khalil (Berkeley), “The Last Jewish-Palestinian”

Chair: Max Weiss, Princeton

Panel Four:

4:15 - 5:30 PM

Jehad Abusalim (NYU),

Ahmad Shokr (Swarthmore), “In the Claws of Empire: Anti-Imperialism and Anti-Zionism in the Thought of Ahmad Sadiq Sa’ad”

Chair: Manan Ahmed(Columbia)