The exhibit Palestinians Envision Life Without Occupation highlights the resilience of Palestinians living under occupation. The project examines the power of imagination as a resistance strategy that Palestinians under occupation have used while they continue to envision a homeland with prosperity, equality, “uninterrupted landscape,” mobility, and stable democratic government. The interviewees assert that pervasiveness of military checkpoints, walls, prisons, killings and restrictions have not deterred them in their struggles for a nation that is free of occupation. The project invites the audience to read the narratives along with the photos and explore the agency of interviewees in the advancement of social change and social justice.

Dr. Irum Shiekh was a Fulbright scholar at Birzeit University in
Palestine during the years 2009-2011.  Currently, she is teaching
classes at the Clark Honors College.

The gallery is open during Lawrence Hall library hours.