Green Colonialism in Palestine and the Arab World

Join the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies for a lecture by Dr. Hamza Hamouchene, a London-based Algerian researcher-activist and commentator, where he will discuss extractivism, the ecological and climate crises in the Arab region, as well as the practices of green colonialism. He will reflect on just transition, technology transfer, and other possible alternatives to the current status quo.

Dr. Hamouchene will also explore how Palestinian liberation is fundamentally a climate justice issue and quintessentially a struggle against US-led empire and global fossil capitalism.

This lecture will be in the context of the CCAS graduate class Critical, Environmental and Human Security taught by Professor Marwa Daoudy. Dr. Daoudy will moderate the event.

Dr. Hamza Hamouchene is a London-based Algerian researcher-activist and commentator. He is currently the Arab region Programme Coordinator at the Transnational Institute (TNI). His work is focused on issues of extractivism, resources, land and food sovereignty as well as climate, environmental, and energy justice in the Arab region.

Dr. Hamouchene is  a founding member of Algeria Solidarity Campaign (ASC), Environmental Justice North Africa (EJNA) and the North African Food Sovereignty Network (Siyada). He is the author/editor of four books: Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region (2023), The Arab Uprisings: A decade of struggles (2022), The Struggle for Energy Democracy in the Maghreb (2017) and The Coming Revolution to North Africa: The Struggle for Climate Justice (2015). He has contributed chapters to several books and his work has appeared in Africa Is A Country, the Guardian, and the Middle East Eye among others.