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Hello, Prestige Heads and welcome to American Prestige.

I'm Danny Bessner here alone because Derek had other but not better things to do. And I'm very excited to welcome to American prestige. I'm Danny Bessner here alone because Derek had other but not better

things to do. And I'm very excited to welcome to the podcast today. Usama Makdisi,

Usama's the inaugural Mayseada chair in Palestinian and Arab Studies at the University of

California, Berkeley. And I've invited him to talk about the American Historical Association's

recent videoing of a resolution condemning what we've been calling in the AHA and historians, the scholasticide in Gaza.

And we'll talk about what that means, but in general, just the destruction of educational institutions, the literal annihilation of educators themselves, and archives, which one would think would be relevant to historians,

but the AHA Council has, in all of its wisdom, decided to beat the resolution.

So we'll talk about that.

So first, Osama, thank you so much for joining.

Oh, it's great to be with you.

So let's just start for people who might not know.

What even is the American Historical Association?

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