{"id":10510,"date":"2019-11-04T13:41:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T18:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/?p=10510"},"modified":"2025-06-10T09:13:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:13:38","slug":"nahla-abdo-shares-thoughts-on-book-launch-in-paris-and-toulouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/2019\/nahla-abdo-shares-thoughts-on-book-launch-in-paris-and-toulouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Nahla Abdo shares thoughts on book launch in Paris and Toulouse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Nahla Abdo shares thoughts on book launch in Paris and Toulouse\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/people\/abdo-nahla\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nahla Abdo<\/a> recently attended a book launch in Paris (October 17) and Toulouse (October 22) to promote her book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plutobooks.com\/9780745334943\/captive-revolution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Captive Revolution: Palestinian Women\u2019s Anti-Colonial Struggle within the Israeli Prison System<\/em><\/a>, which was recently published in French (translated by Corinne Chambers). Here, she shares her thoughts on the book launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;At the event of launching my book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plutobooks.com\/9780745334943\/captive-revolution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Captive Revolution: Palestinian Women\u2019s Anti-Colonial Struggle within the Israeli Prison System<\/em><\/a>, in French, I was invited to give talks about the book. The first talk on October 17th took place in Paris at la <em>Librairie Resistances<\/em>. Here, I discussed Palestinian struggle in the context of global women\u2019s anti-colonial resistance, drawing on examples from Northern Ireland, Algeria and African Americans in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/nahla-pic-1-400x414.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10511\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>On October 22nd I gave a talk entitled, &#8220;Resistance Culture and its Role in Anti-colonial Resistance.&#8221; In this talk, I drew on the importance of resistance culture (political poetry, prose and art) in anti-colonial resistance, globally and locally. This talk took place in Toulouse, at <em>Librairie Terra Nova<\/em>. I was happily surprised to find this relatively small city (4th in France) to have such an activist population, especially among the young women and men. The following is a photo of one radio interview I did at a quiet Caf\u00e9 in the city. All my interventions (talks and other activities were done through professional translators).&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/nahla-pic-2-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10512\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Nahla Abdo recently attended a book launch in Paris (October 17) and Toulouse (October 22) to promote her book Captive Revolution: Palestinian Women\u2019s Anti-Colonial Struggle within the Israeli Prison System, which was recently published in French (translated by Corinne Chambers). Here, she shares her thoughts on the book launch. &#8220;At the event of launching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10510"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20493,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10510\/revisions\/20493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}