For almost 20 years, Hamas has ruled Gaza and prepared for a battle that it knew it could not win. As Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib writes in his Jewish Quarterly essay, their path to victory has rested on sacrificing the lives and livelihoods of over 2.2 million Gazans. Ahmed is a Palestinian American humanitarian activist and blogger. In this live Zoom event, he will be in conversation with Kylie Moore-Gilbert, renowned Middle East expert, author, academic and former hostage of the Iranian regime.
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Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib is a Palestinian American analyst, writer, advocate, and humanitarian activist from Gaza and a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC.
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Kylie Moore-Gilbert
Kylie Moore-Gilbert is an Australian-British academic in Middle Eastern political science. She was employed as a lecturer at the University of Melbourne’s Asia Institute and has researched contemporary political developments in the Middle East. Moore-Gilbert was invited to a conference in Iran in 2018 and was detained at the airport preparing to leave the country. From September 2018 to November 2020, she was imprisoned on charges of espionage. She denied the charges, and no evidence for them was ever made public. She was released by Iran in a prisoner swap on 25 November 2020, in exchange for three Iranian prisoners in Thailand, who had been sentenced in connection with the 2012 Bangkok bomb plot. In 2022, Moore-Gilbert wrote a memoir, The Uncaged Sky: My 804 Days in an Iranian Prison, about her experience.