Gaza teach-in at Duke Wednesday

One more thing on the Jordan Lake survey issue - the petition at www.petitiononline.com/jrdnsrvy will be sent to State legislators and others after Tuesday. 

 

The Gaza teach-in is Wednesday at 7pm in classroom 130 of the Social Psychology building.  The speakers will be:

 

"- Laila El-Haddad is a freelance journalist from Gaza. Her blog, "Raising Yousuf and Noor: Diary of a Palestinian Mother," explores the complex relationships between the personal and the political as she raises her children while negotiating displacement and occupation.
http://a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com/

- Rann Bar-On is an Israeli activist and graduate student at Duke University. He has worked with the International Solidarity Movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Rann advocates for an end to the Occupation and resistance to militaristic Israeli government policies. He is especially interested in the Shministim - a group of Israeli high-school students who are imprisoned for daring to refuse to serve in Israel's occupying army.

-Dr. miriam cooke is a Professor of Arabic in the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Department. She also co-teaches a class on the Arab-Israeli conflict through literature and film in the fall. Dr. cooke is also the Education Director of Duke's Islamic Studies Center.

- Abdullah Antepli is Duke's first Muslim Chaplain.  Apart from being a Chaplain, he teaches courses on introductory Islam in Duke's Divinity School. Antepli has also worked on a variety of faith based humanitarian and relief projects in Myanmar (Burma) and Malaysia with the Association of Social and Economic Solidarity with Pacific Countries."