MENA-related Events Calendar

Caabu invites you to an online briefing to discuss the latest report from Israeli human rights organisation, B'Tselem, Unshielded Childhood: Palestinian children and teenagers killed by Israeli in the West Bank in 2025, on Thursday 9 July 2026 at 16:00 (BST UK time), with Kareem Jubran, B’Tselem’s Field Research Director, and Ori Givati, B’Tselem’s Director of International Relations.

The report can be read in full here. Coverage of the report can be read in the Guardian, How children in West Bank are being killed by Israel 'without accountability'.

The event will also be live-streamed on Caabu's YouTube channel which you can also subscribe to.

Organiser: Wasifiri

As more of us grow disillusioned with how knowledge is produced within the bounds of institutions, we increasingly turn to alternative spaces and methods. The body itself is seen as a vital site and generator of knowledge, where its movements and immediate viscerality can counter the neutralising, dehumanising, and alienating ways in which academia, media, and other elite institutions treat people’s lives in their pursuits of a thesis or argument.  

From digital platforms to independent publications, activism and organising, performance, sociology, interdisciplinary production, and more, many practitioners are (em)bodying knowledge in fascinating new, hybrid ways, especially given the exponential explosion of online worlds. This July, join us for a multidisciplinary event in London, featuring a performance lecture by Jason Allen-Paisant and a roundtable conversation with Hazem Jamjoum, SJ Kim, Chantelle Lewis, Louisa Munch, and Nat Raha – chaired by Wasafiri Associate Editor Maya Caspari – to gather and explore these varying perspectives on who creates knowledge and from where. 

Organiser: Britain Palestine Project

As the devastating war in Gaza continues to reshape the region, one question looms over every discussion of the future: Is Israeli-Palestinian peace still possible? Join us for our next Britain Palestine Project webinar as we explore what comes next, the role of civil society in building peace, and whether a just and lasting resolution remains achievable.

Our guest is John Lyndon, Executive Director of the Alliance for Middle East Peace (ALLMEP), the world's largest network of peacebuilding organisations working across Israel and Palestine. John brings more than a decade of experience leading organisations focused on conflict resolution and international development, with particular expertise in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the vital role that civil society must play in achieving lasting peace.

We invite you to attend a two-day workshop critically examining decentralised, autonomist, and federalist modes of political organising in West Asia and North Africa. The workshop aims to be a space of interdisciplinary exploration of historical lineages, contemporary manifestations, and future possibilities of decentralised governance in (post)uprising and (post)revolutionary contexts.

The workshop is structured around three core themes:  

• Historiography and Genealogy: excavating and reassessing historical precedents of autonomist organising in the WANA region, challenging statist historiographies.  
• Political Theory and Philosophy: articulating the distinct political thought emerging from these movements, exploring concepts of democracy, ecology, gender, and pluralism.  
• Contemporary Praxis and Future Possibilities: critically evaluating the successes, limitations, and future prospects of existing and emergent autonomist projects.

The workshop will take place at the University of Glasgow on 22 and 23 July 2026 from 10:00 am to 6 pm. To allow the broadest possible participation, the workshop will be held in person and online via Zoom. If you would like to attend the workshop, please register by following this Eventbrite link. There is no conference fee.