A talk with Palestinian educator, translator, and researcher Hazem Jamjoum

Thirty-three years after the signing of the Oslo Accords, what did they actually change, not only in the relationship between Israel and the Palestinians, but within the Palestinian liberation movement itself?

To mark 33 years since Oslo, Casa Palestina welcomes Hazem Jamjoum for a talk tracing the political processes that led to the agreements between the Palestine Liberation Organization and the State of Israel, and examining their lasting consequences for Palestine.

The evening will look beyond the familiar narrative of Oslo as a failed “peace process” to consider the agreements within the longer history of Zionist settler colonization and Palestinian struggle.

Hazem will explore the place of Palestinian self-government and statehood within Israeli colonial strategy, as well as the debates around statehood within the Palestinian liberation movement itself.

The talk will consider the transformation of the PLO, the establishment of the Palestinian Authority, and the political structures produced through Oslo — asking what these changes meant for Palestinian representation, refugees, liberation and the fragmentation of the Palestinian people.

More than three decades later, as Palestinians continue to confront dispossession, colonization and Israel’s ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people, the evening asks what it means to understand Oslo not simply as an agreement of the past, but as a political framework whose consequences remain deeply present.

A discussion with the audience will follow the talk.

Hazem Jamjoum will join us live via Zoom, with the audience gathering in person at Casa Palestina.

About Hazem Jamjoum

Hazem Jamjoum is a Palestinian educator based in London.

He is the founder and lead editor of Safarjal Press safarjal is Arabic for quince, a radical publishing house focused on translating socially engaged texts to and from the Arabic language.

He is an award-winning translator into English of Ghassan Kanafani’s The Revolution of 1936–1939 in Palestine and Maya Abu Al-Hayyat’s novel No One Knows Their Blood Type.

In August 2025, he curated the London exhibition Room 14: Artwork from the Palestinian Prisoners Movement, which brought together prison abolitionist and prisoner-support organizers around artworks smuggled out of Ofer military prison in Palestine.

Hazem has lectured and led popular education workshops on subjects including the history of the Palestinian struggle, radical archiving, Indigenous sovereignty, prison abolition, border justice, the politics of food, cultural production, and the political economy of empire and imperialism.

The restaurant will be open.