KAREEM RABIE

Here is a list of upcoming talks and events. If you are interested in doing an event or having Kareem come to your class, please reach out!... It is also available at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore, Pilsen Community Books, Bookshop.org, Amazon, and elsewhere books are sold... In 2008, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad invited international investors to the first ever Palestine Investment Conference, which was designed to jumpstart the process of integrating Palestine into the global economy. Or as Fayyad described the conference: Palestine is "throwing a party, and the whole world is invited." In this book, Kareem Rabie examines how the conference and Fayyad's rhetoric represented a wider shift in economic and political practice in ways that oriented state-scale Palestinian politics toward neoliberal globalization rather than a diplomatic two-state solution. Rabie demonstrates that private firms, international aid organizations, and the Palestinian government in the West Bank..