Benoit Challand, Author at Public Seminar

On The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe

Israeli journalist Gideon Levy’s journey into his country’s heart of darkness

September 23, 2024 • by Benoit Challand

Gideon Levy, an award-winning journalist for the liberal Israeli English-language daily Haaretz, has been covering the Palestinian occupied territories since the late 1980s. His column, “Twilight Zone,” published during the Oslo process, was famously unsettling to many Israelis because he established, week after week, that the celebrated peace process was ...

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Education

The Disaster Has Already Happened: Trump’s Victory Seen from Afar

Public Seminar Teach In

December 12, 2016 • by Benoit Challand

Trump’s Election has Already Been a Disaster Contrary to those who say that after inauguration day we will face a disaster for democracy, I maintain that Trump’s election has already lead to a disaster. Yet, starting with a statement that Trump’s election has been a disaster does not mean we have ...

The Disaster Has Already Happened: Trump’s Victory Seen from Afar

Feature

The Tunisian Moving Seminar

January 14, 2016 • by Benoit Challand

Today, January 14th, exactly five years ago, Tunisian president Zin El-Abidine Ben Ali was the first Arab dictator to be removed by the will and strength of an Arab nation, ushering in a wave of Arab rebellions. Because of the negative and destructive course taken by these revolts in Egypt, ...

Science & Technology

Just a Peaceful Quartet?

Reasons for celebrating the Tunisian Nobel Peace Prize

October 9, 2015 • by Benoit Challand

The news has just been released: The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet has been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for its “decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011.” This news is cause for rejoicing given the symbolic ...

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When the Far Enemy becomes Near

Reflections on the Charlie Hebdo killings

January 10, 2015 • by Benoit Challand

The heinous killing of 12 journalists and staff from Charlie Hebdo needs to be interpreted with at least two different focal lenses. There is a French (or French-European) dimension, but there is also an international dimension of these killings, one that connects the spread of ISIS with the strategy of the two ...

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Visualizing the Occupation

Lessons from the maps of the war on Gaza

October 29, 2014 • by Benoit Challand

Anyone remotely familiar with the intricacies of Gaza's survival has heard that the 365 square kilometers that constitute the Gaza Strip are an open-air prison. Some might have heard that access to the sea in front of the strip has been limited time and again for Palestinians to make a ...

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The Other Victim under the Rubble of Gaza

Words and the path to negotiation

July 21, 2014 • by Benoit Challand

For more than ten days, the Gaza strip has again been under attack by Israel, and although missiles are fired everyday by Palestinian factions into Israel, the causalities are massively (if not uniquely) on the Palestinian side. Twenty-four hours after the beginning of a sustained ground operation on ...