online – The Unfolding Middle East War and the New Presidency

A long Middle East war is on the horizon and we will look at building the anti-war resistance. This webinar will address the contours of the war unfolding in the context of an incoming administration’s foreign policy, and Khury Petersen-Smith will speak to some of the underlying dynamics at work to point to what we can anticipate

Khury Petersen-Smith is the Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow and the Co-Director of the New Internationalism Project at IPS. He researches U.S. empire, borders, and migration and strategizes with activists to work against the violence that the U.S. carries out and supports around the world. Khury focuses especially on U.S. militarism in the Middle East and in the Pacific, and movements that resist it. He graduated from the Clark University Graduate School of Geography in Massachusetts, after completing a dissertation on U.S. military bases in the Pacific. He is one of the co-authors and organizers of the 2023 Black Voices for Ceasefire statement, which was signed by over 6,000 Black activists, artists, and scholars. He currently lives in Dorchester.