A voice of conscience for peace, justice, human rights, and intercultural encounter
ICMEP is delighted to host Terry Dougherty’s good friend, Baktash Ahadi. Baktash’'s current projects address Peace and Justice issues both globally and locally. His most recent documentaries deal with the US exit from Afghanistan (August 2021) and with the life of Afghan refugees as they arrive in the USA. Executive Producer of the National Geographic...
In A Surgeon under Israeli Occupation, Dr. Shawki Harb shares his experiences about Palestine and life as a Palestinian surgeon practicing medicine under Israeli occupation from 1975 to 2003, at the Ramallah Hospital and teaching at Al Quds Medical School in Jerusalem. He also describes his medical school training in Germany and specialty training in the...
Israeli and international human rights organizations (Yesh Din and B’Tselem, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International), Michael Lynk, the UN Special Rapporteur for the Palestinian territories, the United Church of Christ, Presbyterian Church USA, and others have designated Israel an “apartheid state.” And South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu has described Israel’s apartheid as worse than...