SEPADPod with Adel Ruished on East Jerusalem

Richardson Institute

On this episode of SEPADPod, Simon speaks with Adel Ruished, PhD student at Lancaster University about recent events in East Jerusalem. Prior to commencing his PhD, Adel lived in East Jerusalem and worked at Al Quds University as the administrative director of the Jerusalem campus. He can be found on twitter @AdelRuished. On this episode, Simon and Adel talk about recent developments in Sheikh Jarrah and East Jerusalem broadly, placing such developments within the broader context of Israeli policies towards Palestinian East Jerusalemites. Using Giorgio Agamben's ideas of bare life and destituent power, Adel talks about the mechanisms of control imposed on institutions and individuals across East Jerusalem, and the mechanisms of resistance deployed by many, including dancing and giant games of chess. Please do like, share and subscribe in all the usual ways. We even have a jingle now (thanks Eddie) so we’re contractually obliged to ask you to do this. Until next time!