Join us for a conversation with Omar Barghouti, the Palestinian human rights defender and co-founder of the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights. He is a co-recipient of the 2017 Gandhi Peace Award. He holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, NY, and is pursuing a PhD in Philosophy (ethics) at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of, BDS: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights (Haymarket: 2011). His commentaries and views have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Financial Times, The Nation, and on MSNBC, CNN, BBC, among others.
Following his talk will be a panel discussion!
The panelists for our event will be: Toufoul Abou-Hodeib, Bjørn Olav Utvik, and Lan Marie Nguyen Berg