2010 • Eqbal Ahmad Lecture • Karma Nabulsi • Hampshire College

Dr. Karma Nabulsi is a fellow in politics at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, and a university lecturer in international relations. She is the author of Traditions of War, a study of the ideological and historical foundations of the laws of war. Dr. Nabulsi delivered the 13th annual Eqbal Ahmad Memorial Lecture at Hampshire College on November 4, 2010. Dr. Nabulsi is director of the Civitas collective project on civic needs of Palestinian refugees and exiles, and editor of its Palestinians Register: Laying Foundations and Setting Directions. She is chair of trustees and cofounder of HOPING Foundation, a charity that raises awareness of Palestinian refugee youth and sponsors education, arts, and sports activities for young Palestinians in refugee camps across the Middle East. She was a member of the Palestinian delegation to the peace process in Washington D.C. in the early 1990s. The Eqbal Ahmad Lecture series was founded to honor the late teacher for whom it is named. Ahmad was a longtime professor at Hampshire College, and this lecture series was built to be a continuing celebration of his life and work. You can find a playlist of all Eqbal Lectures here: http://tinyurl.com/EqbalPlaylist