Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

You are invited to attend the conference Culture and Conflict in Palestine/Israel held February 1-3 at UF.  The kickoff event for this conference will be a free screening of this documentary from 2017.

When a nation-wide uprising breaks out in 1987, a woman in Gaza must make a choice between love, family, and freedom. Undaunted, she embraces all three, joining a clandestine network of women in a movement that forces the world to recognize the Palestinian right to self-determination for the first time. Naila and the Uprising chronicles the remarkable journey of Naila Ayesh whose story weaves through the most vibrant, nonviolent mobilization in Palestinian history — the First Intifada in the late 1980s.

The movie will be followed by a discussion about cinema as a political tool with the impact producer, Emma Alpert.

The conference is sponsored by the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish Studies; Center for Global Islamic Studies; UF International Center; Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica; Center for Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Research; Department of Sociology, Criminology, and Law.