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This conversation with Sophia Azeb is the third and last (at least for now) episode in our mini-series about “future” as a keyword in Critical Zionism Studies. We talk about Palestinian futurity and its entanglement with Palestinian history and memory of the past.

Sophia Azeb (she/they) is an assistant professor of Black Studies in the Department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Sophia's current book project, Another Country: Translational Blackness and the Afro-Arab, explores the currents of transnational and translational blackness charted by African American, Afro-Caribbean, African, and Afro-Arab peoples across twentieth century North Africa and Europe. Prior to joining the faculty at UC Santa Cruz, Sophia was a member of the faculty collective that founded the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. Sophia is a frequent contributor to The Funambulist platform.

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Sophia Azeb, “The “no-state Solution”: Decolonizing Palestine Beyond the West Bank and East-Jerusalem”

Funambulist podcast with Sophia Azeb, “The “No-State Solution”: Power of Imagination for the Palestinian Struggle”

Funambulist podcast with Sophia Azeb, “A Moment of True Decolonization”

Workshops4Gaza - Sophia Azeb’s workshop “Black Studies and the Black Radical tradition,” Nov 3, 4-7pm PST on Zoom.