Queer Palestinian Voices: in Conversation with Dr Izat El Amoor

To mark Dublin Pride, we welcome you to join us in person and tune in to a conversation with, Izat El Amoor, a non-diaspora Queer Palestinian, on how to engage with the Queer Palestinian cause in the light of the events and developments of the past few years. The conversation will look at pinkwashing, allyship, environmentalism, mental health, and AI through queer Palestinian perspectives, with guest speaker Izat El Amoor and moderator Uri Horesh.

This wide-ranging discussion will look at queering current 'hot topics' through the lens of Palestine, recognising that Palestinian queerness is a radical site of resistance against the fundamental failings of the "globalised world". By developing a framework for allyship more broadly, the discussion will consider concrete actions that people in Western spaces can take to support queer Palestinians.

This promises to be a fascinating intersectional discussion about the connections between our shared struggles and how to move forward together.

This event will be a live screening of an online discussion between Dr. El Amoor and Dr. Horesh, with time for audience questions.

Speakers

Dr. Izat El Amoor (he/him) is a sociologist and a queer Palestinian. He studies queer issues in Palestine with a focus on education, family life, pinkwashing, and the Palestinian Queer Movement. He also studies queer life in the SWANA region with a focus on political and cultural factors of mobilizing towards queer change since the Arab uprisings erupted in 2011.

Dr. Uri Horesh (they/them) is a Lecturer in the Department of Arabic and Persian at the University of St Andrews and an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex. They hold a PhD in Sociolinguistics from the University of Essex (2014) and have taught linguistics, translation, and Arabic at a number of universities and colleges in the United States, Palestine, and the United Kingdom. Uri is also a Queer activist who has participated in numerous protests against occupation, genocide, homophobia, transphobia, and other instances of bigotry and injustice. They recently presented a talk at Gothenburg University in Sweden on The Israeli practice of pinkwashing and intersectional Palestinian LGBTQ+ identities.

This event will be a live screening of an online discussion between Dr. El Amoor and Dr. Horesh, with time for audience questions.

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