Loading ..."Humanity in Gaza": Films and Discussion
Date/Time
Date(s) - 12/17/2023
3:00 am - 4:30 am
Categories
Cost:
0.00 USD
Contact Person:
Steven Sellers Lapham
Email:
vfhlonlinefilmsalon@gmail.com
Website:
http://www.voicesfromtheholyland.org
Phone:
2404187628
Organization:
Voices From the Holy Land
On Sunday, December 17, join the Voices From the Holy Land Online Film Salon at 3:00pm ET.
The topic is “Humanity in Gaza.” Since October 7, Israel has dropped the equivalent of two nuclear bombs on Gaza, killing and wounding tens of thousands, displacing 1.5 million, and creating conditions on the ground that inevitably lead to more death, injury, and disease. Yet this humanitarian catastrophe is not the first Gazans have endured. The majority of the population are refugees displaced from their homes in the 1948 Nakba. Forty percent of today’s Gazans are under age 15. In their lifetime they have seen five Israeli bombing campaigns on their homes, not to mention the deadly force Israel used against Gazans participating in the primarily nonviolent border protests of 2018-2019.
How does this affect the physical and mental health of the people of Gaza, particularly the children? For how many generations will this damage remain? Panelists will explore Gaza’s cycles of trauma, recovery, and re-traumatization, centering on three short films: Gaza: A Gaping Wound; So They Know We Existed; and Heroes of Gaza: The Extraordinary Doctors, Living & Working in a Warzone.
Discussion Panelists and Moderator
Samah Jabr is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist living in East Jerusalem, serving as the head of the Mental Health Unit within the Palestinian Ministry of Health. She is well known internationally as an advocate for Palestinian human rights and a prolific author and speaker in both scholarly and popular media. Samah is featured in the documentary film Beyond the Front Lines. Samah is a founding and steering committee member of the Palestine-Global Mental Health Network and a member of the clinical faculty of George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Ahmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza and the co-founder of We Are Not Numbers, a collective which trains the next generation of Palestinian writers to publish their stories in English. Ahmed obtained a Chevening Scholarship to pursue a Master’s degree in international journalism from Leeds University before serving as advocacy and outreach officer for the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor. His writings have been published in many publications including The Washington Post, The New Arab, and Arab News. He has been interviewed across the Western media such as Sky News, the BBC, and MSNBC.
Steve Sosebee is the founder and president of the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF). With his late wife, Huda Al-Masri, he laid the foundation of PCRF after a tenure as a freelance journalist for The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and Al-Fajr Newspaper, residing in the occupied territories during the First Intifada. PCRF inaugurated the first pediatric cancer department in Palestine in 2013 and established a second in Gaza in 2019. With six offices in the West Bank, three in Gaza, and one each in Jordan and Lebanon, PCRF ensures that children have access to the critical care they require.
Alice Rothchild is the author of Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience and Condition Critical: Life and Death in Israel/Palestine. She contributed to Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism: Stories of Personal Transformation; directed a documentary film, Voices Across the Divide; and is active in Jewish Voice for Peace. Alice practiced ob-gyn and served as Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Harvard Medical School, for almost 40 years. She is completing a graphic novel and a memoir in verse and is researching a book on the history of the home birth movement in Seattle.
Registration is required. Visit: Tinyurl.com/VFHL-December2023. Watch the films before Sunday, then join the salon on Dec. 17.
Co-sponsors: USA Palestine Mental Health Network and United Palestine Appeal
SUPPORTER Organizations: Israel/Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) * Palestinian Christian Alliance for Peace * Quaker Palestine Israel Network * Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East * Indiana Center for Middle East Peace * Disciples of Christ Palestine Israel Network * Virginia Coalition for Human Rights * Mennonite Palestine Israel Network * Friends of Sabeel North America * Center for Jewish Nonviolence * Episcopal Peace Fellowship Palestine Israel Network * Northern New Jersey Jewish Voice for Peace * United Church of Christ Palestine Israel Network * Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service * Churches for Middle East Peace * Kairos Puget Sound Coalition * Pax Christi USA * Jewish Voice for Peace–San Diego *
You must register to join the discussion & receive access to the film:
Visit: Tinyurl.com/VFHL-December2023
How this will work:
1 – Register here for the Voices from the Holy Land Online Film Salon: Tinyurl.com/VFHL-December2023
2 – Once you register, you will get a confirmation email from Zoom with a link to the meeting and a link to watch the film. (Save this confirmation letter as the meeting link is unique to your email, and you must have this to participate.)
3 – Watch the film at your convenience before the event. Then join us with your thoughts and questions for our speakers at the Q&A Discussion on Sunday December 17, 2023 at 3 pm ET/ 12 noon PT.
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