Winter Gathering Registration Open: Against Genocide - is a new Palestine/Israel possible?

View this email in your browser SEPTEMBER 2024 Winter Gathering 2024: Against Genocide – is a new Palestine/Israel possible? Registration now open for currently registered fellows.  Scroll down for details.  Credit: gloucester2gaza   ANNUAL MUSLIM INSTITUTE WINTER GATHERING:  Friday 1st - Sunday 3rd November 2024 Sarum College, Salisbury.   Registration is now open exclusively to currently registered fellows until Monday 20th September when it will be opened to newly registered fellows. If you are a current fellow and have not received a registration email, please let us know at info@musliminstitute.org.   Confirmed speakers include: Husam Zomlot, Ambassador of the State of Palestine to the U.K. Zara Mohammed: Secretary-General Muslim Council of Britain Rivkah Brown: Commissioning editor & reporter @novaramedia & co-founder of Jewish NGO Na'amod.  Ilyas Nagdee: writer/activist and Racial Justice Director, Amnesty International spokesperson. Dr. Mirnes Kovac: journalist and political analyst (Sarajevo) Dr Atef Alshaer: (University of Westminster, specialist on culture and politics in the Arab world) Plus: An evening celebration of Palestinian cultures, with live music.   Israel's response to the Hamas attacks on 7 October 2023 has put the political ideology of Zionism under the spotlight.   Centuries of antisemitism, expulsions and pogroms in Europe spurred some Jewish leaders to develop Zionism, a nationalist ideology whose primary call is for the creation of a separate Jewish homeland where Jews could live in safety and security. This call was magnified by the Nazi attempt to exterminate all of Europe's Jews culminating in the Holocaust.   The British, who held a governing mandate over Palestine, endorsed the Zionist project by committing to the establishment of a homeland for the Jews. After the Second World War, and the huge expansion of Jewish immigration to Palestine, tensions between the colonial power, Jewish immigrants and the indigenous Palestinian population, led to UN partition plan that handed over the land of Palestine to the Zionist project. This quickly became, and continues to be a settler colonial project predicated on a zero-sum game of erasing the indigenous population through ethnic cleansing and military occupation, buttressed by vicious racism. The Israeli state is protected by the US, the most powerful nations on earth, seemingly regardless of what it does to the remaining Palestinian population in Gaza and the West Bank, despite commitments to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.   Can the seven million Israeli Jews and seven million Israeli Arabs and Palestinians ever live together in a shared territory based on equal democratic rights and with mutual dignity?   What does our history teach us of the prospect of Palestinians and Jews living together?  How and why and to what extent did Jews thrive intellectually, economically and politically in Muslim lands of the past – including in Al Andalus and the Ottoman Empire? Can a predominantly Jewish state ever treat its non-Jewish citizens equally and with humanity? What is the new antisemitism?   Join us for a compelling weekend of talks and discussions with national and international speakers where we explore Palestinian-Jewish history, scholarship, religion and culture and imagine alternative futures of what a post-Zionist state might look like and tackle the vital question: Is a new Palestine/Israel possible? See registration details below. ******************************************** ALSO: Watch the video of the 9th Annual Ibn Rushd Lecture: The History of Muslim Women in Britain held in July 2024, the Inaugural Annual Ibn Sina Lecture held in April 2024 at Leeds Civic Hall, and the book launch held in March 2024 of the new ground-breaking The Qur'an: A Verse Translation. ANNUAL MUSLIM INSTITUTE WINTER GATHERING:  Sarum College, Salisbury Friday 1st - Sunday 3rd November 2024   Registration Details The Winter Gathering will take place on Friday 1 November – Sunday 3 November, in our usual contemplative and welcoming setting of Sarum College, Salisbury. Sarum College offers comfortable accommodation in single, twin and double rooms, mostly en-suite, and all halal catering. The weekend is free for all currently registered fellows and is inclusive of accommodation and meals. All Fellows would now have received an email with a simple registration form. Please fill it all in and return it by Monday 20th September to Hassan Mahamdallie at info@musliminstitute.org Sarum College accommodation will be allocated as usual on a first come, first served basis. If you have any queries about the form or other questions then please do not hesitate to email info@musliminstitute.org Full details on the Muslim Institute's webpage. This will be updated as we confirm further speakers and finalise the schedule.   This year's arrangements: We have changed some of our previous arrangements, in order to keep rising costs down and your subs at an affordable rate.  Registration exclusively for fellows will be open until Monday 20th September. After that we will begin to open it out to friends and colleagues of the Institute. If you can't complete and return the form by the deadline for whatever reason, or have any queries, then please email us. Your children are very welcome, but please let us know via the booking form, so we know whether we need to hire childcare for them to be supervised and looked after. Non-fellows: All non-fellows will be asked to meet the costs of accommodation and meals only. If there are rooms available at Sarum College the cost will be charged at £80 per person for each overnight stay and food. If they prefer to arrange and pay for their own stay in a local hotel, we will only charge them for meals @£30 per person per day. We will first allocate fellows to rooms at Sarum College. If you prefer to stay at a local hotel, then we can send you a list of nearby places, but you will have to book and pay yourself. Please encourage all those who are not institute fellows and who do want to attend this important gathering to become a fellow by signing up online via the website before the end of September. Taking out full membership will be a much better option, as our fees are presently still being held at a very reasonable £120 per annum despite inflation and steeply rising costs. Critical Muslim new website launch Critical Muslim, the in-house journal of the Muslim Institute has launched its new website, to mark its 50th edition. The website is full of free articles and searchable listings of all the articles published in the journal.  Critical Muslim is a quarterly magazine of ideas and issues showcasing ground breaking thinking on Islam and what it means to be a Muslim in a rapidly changing, interconnected world. It is published by Hurst and Co., a highly respected publisher of books on Islam and the Muslim World, as a paperback book; and co-published by Oxford University Press (Pakistan), Westland Books (India), and distributed in the United States by Oxford University Press (USA). The first issue The Arabs Are Alive was published in the winter of 2012 as a response to the Arab Spring and has been published four times a year ever since.  Each issue is devoted to a single theme, which also serves as the title of the individual book. Critical Muslim is devoted to examining issues within Islam and Muslim societies, providing a Muslim perspective on the great debates of contemporary times, and promoting dialogue, cooperation and collaboration between 'Islam' and other cultures, including 'the West'. We aim to be innovative, thought provoking and forward looking, a space for debate between Muslims, between Muslims and others, on religious, social, cultural and political issues concerning the Muslim world and Muslims in the world. In response to the overthrow of the Bangladeshi government CM has made available a long read article by Hassan Mahamdallie on Dhaka and the politics of the country. Visit the website for this and much more. You can also subscribe to Critical Muslim via the site. All fellows of the Muslim Institute get a free copy of each new issue of CM  worth £60 a year.    info@musliminstitute.org  |  www.musliminstitute.org 7 - 14 Great Dover Street, London, England, SE1 4YR   Copyright © 2023 Muslim Institute, All rights reserved. You are on our list because you have volunteered your email to us.

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