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Upcoming Events
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Submit your events:
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at DCPalestine.org, please email to events@dcpalestine.org. Our event
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Performance
An Evening of Palestinian Plays
09-13,
Sat.
8:00pm
Georgetown University |
Direction:McNeir Auditorium
37th and O Streets, NW
Washington, DC 20057
Contact:
Palestine Center
202.338.1958
ccasevents@georgetown.edu
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Detail: Selections from the ReOrient Festival:
An Evening of Palestinian Plays
Saturday, September 13, 2008
8:00pm
McNeir Auditorium, Georgetown University
37th and O Streets, NW
Washington, DC 20057
Featuring plays by Fateh Azzam, Yussef El Guindi, Edward Mast, Hanna Eady & Betty Shamieh, directed by Torange Yeghiazarian
Tickets $25, $15 Student rate
Available at 202.338.1958 or at the door
Each year the ReOrient Festival brings innovative and thought-provoking theatre from and about the Middle East to San Francisco. Now, for the first time, selections from the Festival will be presented to a D.C. audience.
The featured selections are:
• Baggage by Fateh Azzam
A traveler is unable to let go of his baggage in the surreal airport of life.
• The Monologist Suffers Her Monologue by Yussef El Guindi
A Palestinian-American explores her identity in this comedic monologue. In the dialogue of nations, do you ever get the feeling that Palestine is just a whiny monologue?
• Sahmata by Edward Mast & Hanna Eady
A grandfather and grandson travel back to the time of the destruction of their family village.
• Tamam by Betty Shamieh
Her name is Tamam. It means ‘enough'.
Contact
CCAS; phone 7-6215; e-mail: ccasevents@georgetown.edu
Sponsor
CCAS and the Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development
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Lecture
Palestinians and Israelis: Two states or one state?
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09-18,
Thu.
12:00pm-2:00pm
The Palestine Center |
Direction:2425 Virginia Avenue, NW
Washington, District of Columbia 20037
Foggy Bottom Metro
Contact:
Palestine Center
(202) 338-1958 ext.11
rsvp@palestinecenter.org
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Detail: The Palestine Center invites you to
The Inaugural Edward Said Memorial Lecture
"Palestinians and Israelis: Two states or one state?"
with
Dr. Avi Shlaim
Professor of International Relations, Oxford University
Mr. Ali Abunimah
Palestine Center Fellow, Author and Journalist
Dr. Mounzer Sleiman, moderator
Journalist and Political Analyst
Dr. Subhi Ali, welcome remarks
Chairman, The Jerusalem Fund and Palestine Center
Thursday, 18 September 2008
12:00 - 2:00 p.m.
The Palestine Center
2425 Virginia Avenue, NW
Washington, District of Columbia 20037
Foggy Bottom Metro
Israel's negotiating strategy and its continued creation of facts on the ground has caused some Palestinians to doubt the probability of a two-state solution. While the official Palestinian strategic goal is a two-state solution, some Palestinians argue that a bi-national state, a single state, for Israelis and Palestinians in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza has become the only sustainable solution.
For Israelis, that would spell the end of the Jewish ethnic state. And among a public where demographics has become a central issue, an apartheid state framed as a two-state solution is the only way to secure the Zionist dream.
This briefing is free and open to the public. A light lunch will be served to registered guests at 12:00 p.m. The briefing and question/answer period will be from 12:30-2:00 p.m. Registration is required. Unregistered guests will not be admitted. To register, send the name of the event, your name, affiliation and contact information to rsvp@palestinecenter.org or call (202) 338-1958 ext.11 by 12 noon on Wednesday, 17 September 2008.
The Palestine Center is an independent think-tank committed to communicating reliable and objective information about the Palestinian political experience to American policy makers, journalists, students and the general public. Established in 1991, it is the educational program of the Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development.
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Fundraiser
IFTAR Dinner for fundraiser for GAZA
09-18,
Thu.
6:30pm
Bamian Restaurant |
Direction:5634 Leesburg Pike
Falls Church, VA 22041
Telephone:(703) 820-7880
Contact:
(703) 919-1774
naamadcchapter@gmail.com
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Detail: NAAMA (National Arab American Medical Association) - Gaza Fundraising event
Dear NAAMA friends:
This invitation comes at a time of great distress for Arab Americans as we witness the violence taking place in the Middle East. Our Palestinian colleagues in the medical profession have been struggling to provide services in the face of the attacks on ambulances, medics, physicians and hospitals.
I am joining with the National Association in calling on all of you to help in this emergency.
PLEASE join us for:
An IFTAR Dinner for fundraiser for GAZA
WHEN: Thursday September the 18th
TIME: 6:30 PM
WHERE: Bamian Restaurant
Address: 5634 Leesburg Pike
Falls Church, VA 22041
Telephone:(703) 820-7880
Fee: $ 100 per person
RSVP: Please reply to Dr. Hoda Makkawi
E-mail: naamadcchapter@gmail.com
Telephone: (703) 919-1774
Please Pay by Sep. 9 make check payable to NAAMA DC Chapter.
Payment Address: 11483 Carriage gate ct. Fairfax, VA 22030
Contributions will go to United Palestinian Appeal (UPA)
http://www.helpupa.com/
Which is a Private, non governmental humanitarian organization and a member of independent charities of America (ICA).
Your contributions will help acquire badly needed medical supplies.
P.S. please send your contributions to support GAZA
Donations are tax deductible.
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Art
The Nakba Exhibit
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09-21,
Sun.
3:00pm-5:30pm
Mary Cosby Gallery, Potter's House |
Direction:1658 Columbia Rd, NW
Washington, DC
(202) 232-5483
Contact:
240-473-0046
aidaatallah@comcast.net
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Detail: The Washington Interfaith Alliance for Middle East Peace
Invites you to the opening of
The Nakba Exhibit
Sunday, September 21, 2008
3:00 – 5:30 PM
At the Mary Cosby Gallery, Potter's House
1658 Columbia Rd, NW
Washington, DC
(202) 232-5483
In 1948 with the establishment of Israel, more than 400 Palestinian villages were destroyed and more than 750,000 Palestinians were forced to leave their homes and their communities. This exhibit, produced by Friends of Sabeel Canada, consists of 60 photographs describing what happened then and the dispossession that continues to occur. The exhibit tells the story of the Nakba (the catastrophe). You will also have a chance to hear, in person, one of the witnesses to these events who will relate her experience to the pictures in the exhibit:
Guest Speaker: Afaf Ayesh
Mrs. Ayesh was born in Jerusalem. She was 14 years old in 1948 when the Israeli soldiers forced her family to leave their home and country.
For questions concerning the exhibit, please contact Exhibit Coordinator, Aida Atallah, aidaatallah@comcast.net.
Please note that the exhibit will be on display at Potter's House into October; please call ahead if you would like to see it after the opening.
Afaf Ayesh was born and raised in Jerusalem. She was 14 years old when the Nakba (The Catastrophe) occurred in 1948.
The destruction of Palestinian villages and the massacre of its people (Deir Yassin) by the Israeli army forced the Avesh family to find temporary relief in Zarka, an industrial town east of Amman, Jordan.
A year later, after a brief truce, the once wealthy Ayesh family went back to an occupied Jerusalem to find that they had lost everything: their home, land, and business. The family was left destitute and survived the best they could under the occupation forces.
As an adult Afaf worked at a United Nations Palestinian refugee camp in Bethlehem. The people were refugees in their own land. Afaf moved to the United States in 1959 with her husband. It was here that she raised her family. The impact of the Nakba was that the family was scattered all over the world. They cannot even bury their own dead on their home soil.
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