We are excited to welcome Dr. Sa’ed Atshan from Swarthmore College as this year’s keynote speaker!

His talk, titled “Sexualities and Queer Imaginaries Across the Middle East and North Africa,” will be scheduled for Friday afternoon. Additional details will be available on the schedule in the coming weeks.

Dr. Sa’ed Atshan

Associate Professor of Peace and
Conflict Studies and Anthropology

Chair of the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at Swarthmore College

Dr. Sa’ed Atshan is an associate professor of peace and conflict studies and anthropology at Swarthmore College, where he also serves as the chair of the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies. He has previously served as an associate professor of anthropology at Emory University, as a visiting assistant professor of anthropology and a senior research scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and as a postdoctoral fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies.

Dr. Atshan earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies and an M.A. in Social Anthropology from Harvard University, as well as a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and a B.A. from Swarthmore College. He is the author of Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique (Stanford University Press, 2020), co-author (with Katharina Galor) of The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians (Duke University Press, 2020), and co-editor (with Galor) of Reel Gender: Palestinian and Israeli Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2022).