Understanding Hamas, Ep.1: Dr. Paola Caridi

This was the first of a series of Public Conversations that Just World Ed is presenting in May 2024, on the theme of "Understanding Hamas and Why That Matters." The series is presented by JWE President Helena Cobban and board member Rami G. Khouri. Our first guest was journalist and author Dr. Paola Caridi.

You can see much more information about this project and access the multimedia records of this session and all the others as they occur, at this Online Learning Hub on our website.

Dr. Caridi is a Lecturer at the University of Palermo, is a founding member of the News Agency “Lettera22”, and was their correspondent in Cairo, 2001-03, and in Jerusalem, 2003-12. While she was reporting from Jerusalem she conducted intensive coverage of the crucial series of events that ran from Israel's 2004 assassination of Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, through the movement's participation in Palestinian legislative elections in 2006 (and their victory therein)... and then to the series of fierce, always US-supported, attacks that Israel maintained against Hamas and the whole population of Gaza from 2007 on... The second of Dr. Caridi's three published books was Hamas: From Resistance to Government, which first appeared in Italian in 2009, and in English in 2012. (An updated version was released last October 10.)