Political Studies Speaker Series: Narrating Palestine in the Shadow of Ibadah

Date: Thursday, Oct. 16
Time: 2:30 pm
Location: Room 133, Arts Building

About this event

Guest speaker: Dr. Ghada Ageel, Political Science associate lecturer, University of Alberta

The Palestinian narrative is frequently drowned out by entrenched power structures designed to silence, distort and erase Indigenous voices. This talk elevates Palestinian testimonies, particularly from Gaza, within the conceptual frame of al-Ibādah—the Destruction—a term that captures the layered violence of democide, medicide, ecocide, scholasticide, culturicide, and Gazacide.

At the core of this Ibādah lies voicecide: the deliberate silencing of Palestinian narration. Each murdered Palestinian scholar, scientist, journalist, poet, teacher, student, elder or artist represents not only a stolen life, but also a stolen story—a missing piece of truth, a deliberate attempt to exile Palestinians from history. What is targeted is not only the individual but the collective right of Palestinians to narrate their own existence. For more than a century, Palestinians have been silenced—their testimonies dismissed, their archives destroyed, their memories attacked.

Drawing on firsthand accounts, oral histories, and scholarship, this lecture underscores the political force of the personal, foregrounding the lived realities of Palestinians and their resistance to annihilation through memory, storytelling, and education under a settler colonial regime that enacts apartheid and Ibādah.

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