Women from Gaza to speak in NYC
PALESTINIAN WOMEN FROM GAZA
SPEAK OUT ON OCCUPATION
LAILA EL-HADDAD & FIDA QISHTA
Evenings of June 5 & 8 in NYC (locations below)
Laila El-Haddad is a Palestinian journalist and mother living in Gaza. She writes for Aljazeera.net. Her writing has also been published in The Washington Post and on Alternet, and she blogs for the UK Guardian. She maintains her own blog Raising Youssef: A Diary of a Mother Under Occupation. Laila is a graduate of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and Duke University.
Fida Qishta is a Palestinian grassroots community educator and activist who lives in Rafah, Gaza. Rafah is one of the hardest hit Palestinian cities, with over 1500 homes demolished by the Israeli army, including Fida’s family’s home. Fida has worked with the International Solidarity Movement, and founded the direct action group “Rachel’s Way” and “Life-Makers Center” for Rafah’s traumatized children.
See:
observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1451112,00.html
www.arabamericannews.com/newsarticle.php?articleid=5370
MONDAY, JUNE 5
7:00PM
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church
521 West 126th Street
New York, NY
212-864-4013
Between Broadway and Amsterdam Ave.
1/9/A/B/C/D Trains to 125th Street
Co-sponsored by Saint Mary’s Church,
ISM-NYC, and
New York Campaign for Boycott Divestment and Sanctions Against Israel
THURSDAY, JUNE 8
8:00 PM
at Maryhouse,
55 East 3rd Street
(between 1st & 2nd Ave.)
New York, NY
Co-sponsored by:
Women in Black/Union Square and The NY Catholic Worker
(212) 777-9617
