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Session 8: Two Communities in the Time of Pandemic

A comparative discussion exploring the social and political origins of Palestinian and African American/ Black experiences of discrimination, exclusion and skepticism in and after the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Covid-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated systemic inequities in our medical health systems and, indeed, the fundamental socio-political infrastructure of our societies. This session will be devoted to a comparative discussion attesting to African American/ Black and Palestinian experiences as marginalized communities in this trying period: inadequate access to medical care, disproportionate rates of unemployment, and creative and resourceful responses of resilience.

Featuring:

  • Dr. Nihaya Daoud, Professor of Public Health at Ben Gurion University of the Negev

  • Illya Davis, Instructor of Philosophy at Morehouse College; Director of New Students & Transition Programs; and Director of the Morehouse Accelerated Academic Program/Pre-freshmen Summer Program

  • Dr. Dwight N. Hopkins, Alexander Campbell Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School and an ordained Baptist minister

  • Dr. Osama Tanous, a Palestinian pediatrician based in Haifa and a board member of Physicians for Human Rights, Israel

and, as moderator:

  • Leslie Maitland, a writer, and former award-winning investigative reporter and national correspondent for The New York Times.

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Session 9: Philosophic Reflections on Pandemic