Conversation with Prof. Lee Artz, Purdue University Northwest

Since Israel’s war on Gaza in the aftermath of the October 2023 attacks, protests have virtually exploded across the world. We see them in Western countries as much as in the ‘Global South’ and the Arab world. In the US, university campuses have become one site of intense protest activity. For this issue’s Protest Voices section, editors Larbi Sadiki and Layla Saleh interviewed Professor Artz about his reflections on the pro-Palestine campus encampments at his university, and how his own research, teaching, and activism feed into one another. The interview with Professor Artz is followed by a short (anonymized) essay by a student protestor offering a first-hand account about why she protests.