September 18, New York: In Our Own Words – Voices from the Nakba

Monday, 18 September 6:00 pm Lester Pollack Colloquium, 9th Fl. of Furman Hall, 245 Sullivan St New York University New York, NY Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/519821578409627/ Khawla Hammad has been a stateless refugee […]

Monday, 18 September
6:00 pm
Lester Pollack Colloquium, 9th Fl. of Furman Hall, 245 Sullivan St
New York University
New York, NY
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/519821578409627/

Khawla Hammad has been a stateless refugee in Lebanon for 69 years. At the age of sixteen, she was expelled from her village of Kabri, in Palestine. Now she is 84 years old, and and still a refugee in Lebanon, with no citizenship in any country at all. Israel expelled most of the population in 1948, and has prevented them from returning to their homes. Kabri and hundreds of other towns and villages were levelled to the ground, a crime that Palestinians call al-Nakba (the Catastrophe).

But Israel did not stop there. It repeatedly attacked Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, killing three of Khawla’s children among many others. Before the Nakba, Khawla’s father also lost his life as a Palestinian freedom fighter. Khawla has a message that she wants to bring to North America. So does 23-year-old Palestinian refugee, journalist and translator Amena Elashkar, whom many of you know from the 2016 Nakba Tour. She and her parents were born as stateless refugees in Lebanon and have never lived in their own country.

Khawla and Amena have a different message from other Palestinians. They are not living under Israeli occupation. Israel does not allow them to visit their homes, much less live there. As exiles, they have a different perspective from Palestinians in Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza and the part of Palestine that became Israel.

Hear Khawla and Amena speak!

This is an event of the North America Nakba Tour
This event is co-sponsored by:
NYU Students for Justice in Palestine
NYC Students for Justice in Palestine
NYU Law Students for Justice in Palestine
NYU Law National Lawyers Guild
Al Awda – NY
Students for Justice in Palestine @ St. Joseph’s College
Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Labor for Palestine
American Muslims for Palestine — Upper NY
American Muslims for Palestine — NJ

To learn more about the North America Nakba Tour in your city visit http://nakbatour.com