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Bayan Haddad is a lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at Birzeit University and a former George Antonius Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Middle East Centre. Her interests include anti-colonial pedagogy and the affective dimensions of storytelling in contexts of political struggle. Her research traces the manifestations of historical trauma in Palestinian and Irish cultural production.
  • On World-Building: Lessons From a Martyred Teacher

    On World-Building: Lessons From a Martyred Teacher

    Bayan Haddad once taught literature to Oudeh Hathaleen, who would become a teacher himself, as well as Palestinian community advocate and consultant on the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land. In July, Oudeh was murdered by an Israeli settler. Haddad reflects on the lessons taught by colonial violence.