Nadija Samour & Sophie Al-Issa – What is Solidarity?
Thursday, November 18, 2021Online discussion
7:00 pm CET
In this installment of the Palestine Event Series we discuss issues of international solidarity, law and historical responsibility and how they connect to Palestine, Israel, Germany and the world.
Sophie Al-Issa is a junior at Al-Quds Bard College majoring in International Law and Human Rights. She is currently a program intern at the Center for Constitutional Rights, and aims to pursue a career in advocacy and human rights law. Sophie is particularly interested in the question of Palestinian refugees and has worked with NGOs that tackle issues of injustice.
Nadija Samour (LL.M.) works as a criminal defense lawyer specializing in political criminal proceedings and international criminal law. Previously, she studied at the Irish Centre for Human Rights and worked at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. In her work, she deals with Palestine as a question of international law, as well as a third world approaches to this matter.
This event is part of the Global Histories of Migration lecture series and funded by the Mellon Consortium on Forced Migration, Displacement and Education.
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