'What is left of the Humanitarian in Gaza?'

The Global Studies Seminar presents “What is left of the Humanitarian in Gaza?” by Denison University’s Professor Isis Nusair.

This presentation will analyze from a feminist, decolonial, and queer perspective the politics of aid currently at play in Gaza. It will focus on the establishment and operation in 2025 of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and the creation of a humanitarian city to house Palestinians in Rafah. The focus is on the politics of starvation as part not only of Israeli military policy to defeat Hamas but part of a larger gendered and racialized project to humiliate the civilian population and lead to their submission and surrender. The multiple forced displacements and enclosing the civilian population in enclaves, the securitizing and weaponizing of aid, and the attacks on UNRWA and marginalizing the role of international and United Nations’ aid organizations are part of a larger system of power and control that aims to destroy the infrastructure and empty Gaza of most of its inhabitants.

Nusair teaches Women’s and Gender Studies, International Studies and Middle East North African Studies.