The Dialogue & Dignity Series includes speakers, workshops, and conversations aimed at building appreciation for discussion that includes different points of view for the development of understanding and good solutions to our most pressing issues.

Please join us on Thursday, May 2 at 7 p.m. in Olin Auditorium for a public talk by guest speaker Sa'ed Atshan, titled “On Faith, Peace, and Justice: Reflections From a Queer Palestinian Quaker.” 

Sa’ed Atshan is Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at Swarthmore College. His areas of research include: contemporary Palestinian society and politics; global LGBTQ social movements; and Christian minorities in the Middle East.

Atshan’s forthcoming book is titled “Paradoxes of Humanitarianism: The Social Life of Aid in the Palestinian Territories.” He is also currently working on two new projects. One is researching the convergent and divergent experiences of African-American and Palestinian Quakers, with an emphasis on the intersection of race and Christianity in the United States and Israel/Palestine. The other, in collaboration with Phillip Ayoub (Political Science, University College London), is researching LGBTQ activism across the Middle East and North Africa region.