Decolonize Palestine
A teaching resource that offers critical information on Palestine for adults and children. It breaks down common Zionist myths and answers frequently asked questions about Palestine.
Visualizing Palestine
Source for data and research to visually communicate Palestinian experiences and provoke narrative change. It breaks down many issues that Palestinians have faced in a visually appealing and easy to understand way.
International Students of Islamic Psychology(ISIP)
ISIP-International Students of Islamic Psychology is an inclusive (open) space designed to connect people with diverse backgrounds interested in Islamic Psychology. We disseminate knowledge, share resources and discuss best practices in a free and accessible manner. ISIP provides a platform to enable further development of people’s personal and professional interests, studies and understanding of Islamic Psychology within their communities and/or countries of origin.
Inclusive therapists
Database to search for vetted mental health professionals. “At Inclusive Therapists, we believe connecting with a therapist, counselor, or coach should not feel like a gamble. Everyone, especially those with marginalized identities, deserves equitable access to radically affirming and culturally responsive mental health care.”
Sumud: A Palestinian Philosophy of Confrontation in Colonial Prisons
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This article investigates Palestinian-Zionist colonial relations from the perspective of the interrogation encounter between Palestinian munadilin (strugglers) in prison and their interrogators from the Israeli security agency during the past forty years of Zionist settler colonization in Palestine. The interrogation encounter is a revealing ethnographic site for analyzing the dialectic of the colonial relations and how Palestinians have simultaneously carved out a space for a form of subjectivity and politics that breaks with the predicament of the colonial dialectic through the cultivation of sumud, or “steadfastness.” In the context of colonized Palestine, sumud has come to embody a whole range of significations, sensibilities, affections, attachments, aspirations, and practices.
Doctor Samah Jabr’s linktree
An intensive digital list of Doctor Samah Jabr’s work, from articles to videos. A list for further readings and research from the clinical works of Doctor Samah Jabr. Doctor Jabr has made her work focused from an anti-colonial/liberation pedagogy, often citing Frantz Fanon’s scholarship.
Videos
Psychoanalysis under occupation: practicing resistance in Palestine w/ Dr Lara Sheehi
Dr Lara Sheehi presents “Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine,” a profound exploration of psychological resilience and defiance, known as sumud, amidst the harsh realities of occupation and settler colonialism in Palestine.
Dr Samah Jabr on ‘Alienation and freedom: education in the struggle for national liberation’
Leading Palestinian psychiatrist and writer, Dr Samah Jabr explores the system of oppression that alienates Palestinians in their homeland and how Palestinians have sought to overcome this. Dr Jabr examines how Palestinian education has been both an instrument of alienation and a site of resistance.
ISIP-International Students of Islamic Psychology hosted Dr. Samah Jabr from Palestine for a conversation to help us understand the Palestinian lived experiences, ways we can help and learn from Palestinian Mental Health Professionals.
Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies by Renee Linklater
In Decolonizing Trauma Work, Renee Linklater explores healing and wellness in Indigenous communities on Turtle Island. Drawing on a decolonizing approach, which puts the “soul wound” of colonialism at the centre, Linklater engages ten Indigenous health care practitioners in a dialogue regarding Indigenous notions of wellness and wholistic health, critiques of psychiatry and psychiatric diagnoses, and Indigenous approaches to helping people through trauma, depression and experiences of parallel and multiple realities.
Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Clinical Work: Practicing Internationally with Marginalized Communities
Recognizing Frantz Fanon’s remarkable legacy to applied mental health and therapeutic practices which decolonize, humanize, and empower marginalized populations, this text serves as a timely call for research, education, and clinical work to establish and further develop Fanonian approaches and practices. A unique manifesto to the ground-breaking and immensely relevant work of Frantz Fanon, this book will be of great interest to graduate and post graduate students, researchers, academics and professionals in counselling psychology, mental health research, and psychotherapy.
Psychoanalysis under occupation: practicing resistance in Palestine
Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine unpacks the intersection of psychoanalysis as a psychological practice in Palestine, while also advancing a set of therapeutic theories in which to critically engage and “read” the politically complex array of conditions that define life for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation.
Qur’an of the Oppressed: Liberation Theology and Gender Justice in Islam
This study analyzes the commentaries of four Muslim intellectuals who have turned to scripture as a liberating text to confront an array of problems, from patriarchy, racism, and empire to poverty and interreligious communal violence. Shadaab Rahemtulla considers the exegeses of the South African Farid Esack (b. 1956), the Indian Asghar Ali Engineer (1939-2013), the African American Amina Wadud (b. 1952), and the Pakistani American Asma Barlas (b. 1950). Rahemtulla examines how these intellectuals have been able to expound this seventh-century Arabian text in a socially liberating way, addressing their own lived realities of oppression, and thus contexts that are worlds removed from that of the text’s immediate audience. Through a close reading of their works, he underlines the importance of both the ethico-social content of the Qur’an and their usage of new and innovative reading practices.