“He’s been called one of the most important Palestinian historians of his generation — a scholar who not only documents resistance but defends the very right of Palestinians to produce knowledge under siege.”
In Episode 56 of The Enlightenment Podcast, Shamim and Hanan are joined by Dr. Abdel Razzaq Takriti, the leading Palestinian Oxford-trained historian who developed the contemporary definition of scholasticide, a concept that was coined by the renowned Palestinian scholar and Prof Takriti’s old mentor at Oxford Karma Nabulsi. He has also played a key role in disseminating frameworks and campaigns related to this concept, in an effort to organize the global academic community against the Gaza genocide. Together, they explore how the erasure of Palestinian history is central to the colonial project and how reclaiming that history is an act of resistance.
Dr. Takriti is an Associate Professor of History and the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University. He is also one of the principal co-founders of Scholars Against the War on Palestine, and the co-creator (with Karma Nabulsi) of the Palestinian Revolution Digital Archive, which won the 2019 MESA Education Award for its groundbreaking preservation of revolutionary memory. Dr. Takriti is the North American representative on the Emergency Committee of Universities in Gaza, a body that was created after the genocide, uniting all the major non-profit higher education institutions in the occupied territory. He is also a co-founder of the ISNAD program that supports these higher education institutions.
In this episode, Dr. Takriti traces the continuum of Palestinian resistance from 1908 to today’s genocide in Gaza, revealing how every generation of Palestinians has fought not only for land, but for the right to think, write, and teach freely.
This conversation is both intellectual and revolutionary — an exploration of how knowledge itself becomes a battleground in the struggle for liberation.
Dr. Abdel Razzaq Takriti’s Work:
📚 Tradition of War → https://www.amazon.com/Traditions-War-Occupation-Resistance-Law/dp/0199279470
🎙Thawra Podcast → https://open.spotify.com/show/0e0eE7aKt5EQdg07CzeVoI
Dr. Abdel Razzaq Takriti’s Websites:
📚 The Palestinian Revolution Digital Archive → https://learnpalestine.politics.ox.ac.uk 🎓 Scholars Against the War on Palestine → https://sawpal.org
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