Benoit Challand Archives - Public Seminar

On The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe

Israeli journalist Gideon Levy’s journey into his country’s heart of darkness

September 23, 2024 • by Benoit Challand

Gideon Levy, an award-winning journalist for the liberal Israeli English-language daily Haaretz, has been covering the Palestinian occupied territories since the late 1980s. His column, “Twilight Zone,” published during the Oslo process, was famously unsettling to many Israelis because he established, week after week, that the celebrated peace process was ...

On <em>The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe</em>

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The Myth of the Clash Between Islam and the West Revisited

ISIL, media, and adaptation

September 25, 2017 • by Jad Moawad

For instance, when first putting forward their analysis of the myth of the Clash of Civilizations (Bottici and Challand, 2013) in 2009, Chiara Bottici and Benoît Challand analyzed the first 20 images that appear when the word al-gharb (West) is searched on Google images[1]. Among the findings, 16 out 20 ...

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The Imaginal Politics of Empire

Thoughts on the images in the new Canadian passport

August 3, 2017 • by Serafina Appel

I. Imaginal Politics In 2013, the Canadian government redesigned Canada’s passports. The thirty-one pages that were until recently covered in faint maple leaves now boast images of two European explorer ships and one sailboat, five war memorials, two trains, one grand waterfall, two groups of policemen, hockey and football players with their ...

Education

The Clash of Civilizations

From Myth to Reality?

July 31, 2017 • by Nardine Luca

Recently, an Egyptian friend of mine posted on Facebook that an Egyptian friend of his tried to apply for an internship in France. The reply he got was shockingly disappointing and not expected at all. Without mentioning the company’s name, it said: “Thanks for your interest in an internship… I ...

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On Public Seminar’s Post Election Teach In

A Workshop on Social Resistance

December 7, 2016 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

We must and will move beyond shock and despair, and toward creative action. This is what I took to be the major theme of our Post Election Teach In Workshop on Social Resistance. I helped organize the event, trying to be hopeful in the face of my own sense of ...