BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:31968@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20231217T030000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20231217T043000 DTSTAMP:20231206T205831Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/humanity-in-gaza-films-and-discussi on/ SUMMARY:"Humanity in Gaza": Films and Discussion DESCRIPTION:On Sunday\, December 17\, join the Voices From the Holy Land On line Film Salon at 3:00pm ET.\n\nThe topic is “Humanity in Gaza.” Sinc e October 7\, Israel has dropped the equivalent of two nuclear bombs on Ga za\, killing and wounding tens of thousands\, displacing 1.5 million\, and creating conditions on the ground that inevitably lead to more death\, in jury\, and disease. Yet this humanitarian catastrophe is not the first Gaz ans have endured. The majority of the population are refugees displaced fr om their homes in the 1948 Nakba. Forty percent of today’s Gazans are un der age 15. In their lifetime they have seen five Israeli bombing campaign s on their homes\, not to mention the deadly force Israel used against Gaz ans participating in the primarily nonviolent border protests of 2018-2019 .\nHow does this affect the physical and mental health of the people of Ga za\, 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.\n\nDiscussion Panelists and Moderator \n\nSamah Jabr is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist living in East Jerus alem\, serving as the head of the Mental Health Unit within the Palestinia n Ministry of Health. She is well known internationally as an advocate for Palestinian human rights and a prolific author and speaker in both schola rly and popular media. Samah is featured in the documentary film Beyond th e Front Lines. Samah is a founding and steering committee member of the Pa lestine-Global Mental Health Network and a member of the clinical faculty of George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.\n\ nAhmed Alnaouq is a Palestinian journalist from Gaza and the co-founder of We Are Not Numbers\, a collective which trains the next generation of Pal estinian writers to publish their stories in English. Ahmed obtained a Che vening Scholarship to pursue a Master’s degree in international journali sm from Leeds University before serving as advocacy and outreach officer f or the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor. His writings have been pub lished in many publications including The Washington Post\, The New Arab\, and Arab News. He has been interviewed across the Western media such as S ky News\, the BBC\, and MSNBC.\n\nSteve Sosebee is the founder and preside nt 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 freelan ce journalist for The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and Al-Fajr Newspaper\, residing in the occupied territories during the First Intifad a. PCRF inaugurated the first pediatric cancer department in Palestine in 2013 and established a second in Gaza in 2019. With six offices in the Wes t Bank\, three in Gaza\, and one each in Jordan and Lebanon\, PCRF ensures that children have access to the critical care they require.\n\nAlice Rot hchild is the author of Broken Promises\, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience and Condition Critical: Life and De ath in Israel/Palestine. She contributed to Reclaiming Judaism from Zionis m: Stories of Personal Transformation\; directed a documentary film\, Voic es Across the Divide\; and is active in Jewish Voice for Peace. Alice prac ticed ob-gyn and served as Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecolog y\, Harvard Medical School\, for almost 40 years. She is completing a grap hic novel and a memoir in verse and is researching a book on the history o f the home birth movement in Seattle.\n\nRegistration is required. Visit: Tinyurl.com/VFHL-December2023. Watch the films before Sunday\, then join t he salon on Dec. 17.\n\nCo-sponsors: USA Palestine Mental Health Network a nd United Palestine Appeal\n\nSUPPORTER Organizations: Israel/Palestine Mi ssion Network of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) * Palestinian Christian Alliance for Peace * Quaker Palestine Israel Network * Unitarian Universal ists for Justice in the Middle East * Indiana Center for Middle East Peace * Disciples of Christ Palestine Israel Network * Virginia Coalition for H uman Rights * Mennonite Palestine Israel Network * Friends of Sabeel North America * Center for Jewish Nonviolence * Episcopal Peace Fellowship Pale stine Israel Network * Northern New Jersey Jewish Voice for Peace * United Church of Christ Palestine Israel Network * Pace e Bene Nonviolence Servi ce * Churches for Middle East Peace * Kairos Puget Sound Coalition * Pax C hristi USA * Jewish Voice for Peace–San Diego *\n\nYou must register to join the discussion &\; receive access to the film:\nVisit: Tinyurl.com /VFHL-December2023\n\nHow this will work:\n\n1 - Register here for the Vo ices from the Holy Land Online Film Salon: Tinyurl.com/VFHL-December202 3\n\n2 – 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 co nfirmation letter as the meeting link is unique to your email\, and you mu st have this to participate.)\n\n3 - Watch the film at your convenience be fore the event.  Then join us with your thoughts and questions for our sp eakers at the Q&\;A Discussion on Sunday December 17\, 2023 at 3 pm E T/ 12 noon PT. \nPlease share this announcement with your friends\, famil y\, and community.  Download the event flyer and post it to your social m edia.\nFor questions &\; comments please contact us at vfhlonlinefilms alon@gmail.com\nVisit our website at www.voicesfromtheholyland.org\nJoin us at Facebook.com/voicesholyland\n** *** ** ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 023/12/download.png CATEGORIES:culture,Discussion,Documentary,Film,Lecture,Palestine END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR