KCL hosts Campus Voices for Palestine 2025
KCL UCU is delighted to host the Campus Voices for Palestine tour again this year. As the final date of the UK tour, the event will coincide with the end of our ballot period and our mobilisation of members for potential industrial action against our institution's complicity in genocide. Featuring speakers from Birzeit University, the Emergency Committee of Universities in Gaza, Friends of Palestinian Universities, PACBI and our branch (bios below) this will be a vital reminder of why our branch mobilises in our workplace for Palestine. Please join us!
Speakers
Dr Ahmed Abu Shaban, Dean, Faculty of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Al-Azhar University – Gaza and a Visiting Professor at York University, Canada. His expertise lies in agricultural economics and environmental sociology, with a focus on food security, climate resilience, and inclusive development. A key member of the Emergency Committee of Universities in Gaza, he has led initiatives to restore academic operations through online platforms after the destruction of universities in Gaza.
Bayan Haddad is a lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at Birzeit University and a former George Antonius Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Middle East Centre. Her interests include anti-colonial pedagogy and the affective dimensions of storytelling in contexts of political struggle. Her research traces the manifestations of historical trauma in Palestinian and Irish cultural production.
Shahinaz Geneid (she/they) is an Egyptian-American international human rights lawyer, social scientist, and organizer based in Canada. Her current organizing work focuses on labor campaigns in higher education and legal organizations, including developing solidarity in these spaces with the Palestine movement. She now brings this experience into her work as International Campus Coordinator for PACBI, a founding member of the BDS Movement, where she supports academic campaigns on university campuses.
Ahmed Nehad works with Friends of Palestinian Universities (formerly Fobzu), where he leads efforts to build partnerships between Palestinian universities and higher education institutions across the UK and Europe. Originally from Gaza, he studied and later taught at the Islamic University of Gaza, contributing to research collaborations and joint projects with a UK universities.
Johnathan Rosenhead is Vice-Chair of British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP) and an emeritus professor at LSE.
Maria Chondrogianni is the President of UCU.