Please join Indigenous scholar-activist J. Kēhaulani Kauanui (Kanaka Maoli), Black anarchist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) Ashanti Alston, & Muslim anarchist Mohamed Abdou for a round table conversation on "Islamic Anarchism, Indigenous Sovereignty and Black Self-Determination." Drawing on their own experiences and expertise, Kauanui and Alston will discuss their own engagements with Abdou's book Islam and Anarchism: Relationships & Resonances.

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Speakers

Dr. Mohamed Abdou is a North African-Egyptian Muslim anarchist interdisciplinary activist-scholar of Indigenous, Black, critical race, and Islamic studies, as well as gender, sexuality, abolition, and decolonization with extensive fieldwork experience in the Middle East-North Africa, Asia, and Turtle Island. He is the Arcapita Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University. He is a former Assistant Professor of Sociology at the American University of Cairo and recently completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell University. He has also taught at the University of Toronto & Queen's University. His research stems from his involvement with the anti-globalization post-Seattle 1999 movements, organizing for Palestinian liberation, the Tyendinaga Mohawks and the sister territories of Kahnawake, Akwesasne, and Kanehsatake, during the standoff over the Culbertson tract, as well as the anti-war protests of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Indigenous Zapatista movement in Chiapas, and the 2011 Egyptian uprisings. He is author of Islam & Anarchism: Relationships & Resonances (Pluto Press, 2022). He wrote his transnational ethnographic and historical-archival doctoral manuscript due for publication on Islam & Queer-Muslims: Identity & Sexuality in the Contemporary (2019).

J. Kēhaulani Kauanui is a scholar-activist who teaches critical Indigenous studies, settler colonial studies, critical race studies, and anarchist studies at Wesleyan University. Kauanui is the author of Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity (Duke 2008); Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism (Duke 2018); and editor of Speaking of Indigenous Politics: Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders (Minnesota 2018). She co-hosted and co-produced two anarchist radio programs, “Horizontal Power Hour” (2010-2013) and “Anarchy on Air” (2014- 2019), and was the sole producer and host of “Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond” (2007-2013) – all of which emanated from WESU, Middletown, CT. She also served as guest editor for a special issue of Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies, focused on “The Politics of Indigeneity, Anarchist Praxis, and Decolonization” (2021). Kauanui is one of the six co-founders of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, established in 2008.

M. Ashanti Alston is a Revolutionary Black nationalist, Anarchist, abolitionist, speaker, writer, Elder motivator. A long-time member of The Jericho Movement, he is presently an Advisory Board member of the National Jericho Movement and co-founding board member of the Center for Grassroots Organizing (Vermont land project). He continues giving talks and writing inspirational analyses concerning the dismantling of the myriad oppressive regimes in which we find ourselves enmeshed. He is one of the few former members of the Black Panther Party who identifies as an anarchist in the tradition of ancestor Kwesi Balagoon (BPP & BLA) He developed abolitionist politics in the early years of Critical Resistance. He has helped save the life of a baby pig with the Animal Liberationists, learned depth-queer politics from being challenged, and wants to see non-ego Eldership partaking through sincerely loving the younger generations who truly want to ‘CARRY IT ON”.

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