Palestine After the Gaza Genocide: A Talk by Mouin Rabbani in Conversation with Tamir Moustafa
On February 4, Mouin Rabbani joined CCMS to deliver a public talk. Rabbani’s presentation will focus on the background, features, and objectives of the Gaza Genocide, and discuss how it has continued since major hostilities came to an end in October 2025. Within this context, the presentation will also examine the Trump 20-point initiative of September 2025, the recently-established Board of Peace project, and their implications for the Question of Palestine.
About the Speaker
Mouin Rabbani is a nonresident senior fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. He is a researcher, analyst, and commentator specializing in Palestinian affairs, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and contemporary Middle East issues.
Among other previous positions, Rabbani served as principal political affairs officer with the Office of the UN Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, head of the Middle East unit with the Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation, and senior Middle East analyst and special advisor on Israel-Palestine with the International Crisis Group. He was also a researcher with Al-Haq, the West Bank affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists.
Rabbani is a co-editor of Jadaliyya, where he also hosts the Connections podcast and edits its Quick Thoughts feature. He is also the managing editor and associate editor of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development and a contributing editor of Middle East Report. In addition, Rabbani is a nonresident fellow at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (CHS) and at Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN). Rabbani has published, presented, and commented widely on Middle East issues for many major print, television, and digital media.
About the Discussant
Tamir Moustafa is Professor of International Studies. His research interests include comparative judicial politics, religion and politics, authoritarianism, politics of the Middle East and, more recently, the politics of knowledge production.
Moustafa’s first major project focused on the Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court, and the politics of courts in authoritarian regimes more generally. This culminated in the publication of The Struggle for Constitutional Power: Law, Politics, and Economic Development in Egypt (Cambridge University Press) and Rule by Law: The Politics of Courts in Authoritarian Regimes (Cambridge University Press, edited with Tom Ginsburg).
His next project explored the public debates generated as a result of dual constitutional commitments to Islamic law and liberal rights in Egypt and Malaysia. In both countries, constitutional provisions enshrining Islamic law and liberal rights lay the seeds for legal friction, and courtrooms serve as important sites of contention between groups with competing visions for their states and societies. The project explored how litigation provokes and shapes competing conceptions of national and religious identity, resolves or exacerbates contending visions of Islamic law, and ultimately bolsters or undermines public perceptions of government legitimacy.
Moustafa’s current work is focused on how the National Science Foundation shaped the discipline of political science in the second half of the 20th century. His research has been funded through the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). He has held visiting fellowships at UC Berkeley, Princeton University, and Harvard Law School and was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2007 for his work on Islamic law and liberal rights.
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