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October 2019
AMBASSADOR DR. AKBAR AHMED
Ambassador Dr Akbar Ahmed Ambassador Ahmed is Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University, Washington DC and former Pakistani High Commissioner to the UK and Ireland. Named "the world's most influential authority on contemporary Islam" by BBC, Dr. Ahmed serves on the World Faiths Development Dialogue, led by Lord George Carey, former Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Advisory Board for the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen's University, Belfast. Author of over 20…
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Indiana Center for Middle East Peace Annual Gala
2019 GALA – SUSAN ABULHAWA Author, Poet, Activist We are delighted to invite you to an evening you won't soon forget! This year our gala features Susan Abulhawa as the keynote speaker. Her literary work and her activism are inspiring, and we are certain that her discussion with us will be as well. +Author, Mornings in Jenin (translated into 32 languages), The Blue Between Sky and Water, and My Voice Sought The Wind (poetry) +Founder, Playgrounds for Palestine (West Bank,…
Find out more »December 2019
Commemoration of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights
On Thursday, December 5, 2019, we will commemorate the 71st anniversary of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Our speaker will be Brian Zahnd. Brian is the co-founder and pastor of Word of Life Church in Saint Joseph, MO, and author of several books, including A Farewell to Mars: An Evangelical Pastor's Journey Toward the Biblical Gospel of Peace, tracing his journey “from war-crier to peacemaker.” Brian also spoke at the 2018 Christ at the Checkpoint conference in Bethlehem.…
Find out more »January 2020
AWAKEN – Bibi Bahrami
We are excited to welcome Bibi Bahrami to Fort Wayne, and to hear her story! In 1980, when she was 14 years old, her family was forced to flee Afghanistan following the Soviet Union's invasion. After six years living and working in a refugee camp in Pakistan, Bibi was able to move to the US and start a new life. In 2002, moved by the struggles of the people living in her home village of Qala-e-Malakh, in the Behsood District,…
Find out more »February 2020
A Thousand and One Journeys: The Arab Americans
Join us for a special screening of the documentary A Thousand and One Journeys: The Arab Americans. Written by Abe Kasbo and Gia M. Amella, this film was an Official Selection for the Arabian Sights Film Festival in 2015, and was the Home Grown Documentary Feature winner of the Garden State Film Festival in 2016. Within the context of historical immigration patterns, this documentary explores the untold story of 200 years of contributions of immigrants from the Middle East, North…
Find out more »P is for Palestine – POSTPONED – DATE TBD
Dr. Golbarg Bashi teaches Iranian and Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University, specializing in human rights in the Muslim world and comparative studies of women's rights movements worldwide. Along with her academic achievements, she was nominated for a US toy industry award as Designer/Inventor at Women in Toys “Wonder Woman” Awards in 2016. Zionists have protested her critically acclaimed children’s book, P is for Palestine, published in 2017, wanting it banned from public and school libraries. Following up P is…
Find out more »March 2020
Political Advocacy about Israel in the Age of Trump
We are delighted to welcome Rabbi Brant Rosen to Fort Wayne for an evening of thoughtful and informative discourse. Rabbi Brant Rosen is the founding rabbi of Tzedek Chicago, a non-Zionist, justice-centered synagogue advocating for Palestinian solidarity. He is the former Midwest Regional Director of the American Friends Service Committee. Brant also is a co-founder of the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council and the Jewish Fast for Gaza, and author of Wrestling in the Daylight: A Rabbi's Path to…
Find out more »April 2020
Interview with Dr. Steve Sosebee – Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund
A virtual event on April 30, via Zoom Dr. Steve Sosebee, President/CEO of Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, joins Michael Spath - and you, via Zoom - for a special conversation. PCRF provides free, life-saving medical treatment to thousands of children from around the Middle East. They also train local doctors and provide surgeries, medicine, and health-care infrastructure to local hospitals. Steve is married to pediatric oncologist, Dr. Zeena Salman who also works with PCRF. We hope you will join us…
Find out more »May 2020
*CANCELED* Josh Ruebner – Political Advocacy on Palestine
Join us for an evening with Josh Ruebner - American author, political analyst, and activist. He is the author of Shattered Hopes: Obama’s Failure to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace and Israel: Democracy or Apartheid State. He has served as the former National Advocacy Director at the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, where he worked to end United States military aid to Israel and on other policy initiatives. He also is the co-founder and former Executive Director of Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel, which has since merged…
Find out more »*CANCELED* Black & Palestinian Voices – A Washington, DC Field Trip
Join Dr. Michael Spath on this transformational study and solidarity field trip in the nation's capital. Includes visits to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Museum of the Palestinian People, meetings with African-American and Palestinian activists, and attendance at the Washington Report for Middle East Affairs Annual Conference, “Transcending the Israel Lobby at Home and Abroad.” *CANCELED DUE TO COVID-19* Photo credit: Macfawlty
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