From 5:00 PM until 7:00 PM
What is happening in Gaza and the West Bank? How is
it being reported?
What is the role of Arab countries?
What can we do?
Join Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice, and the Environment &
Massachusetts Peace Action for an evening of discussion led by 3
foremost experts from eastern Massachusetts.
Amahl Bishara
is a Palestinian American and a professor of anthropology at Tufts University and author of
Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence, and Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression (2022).
She will address what is currently happening in Gaza and the West Bank and what might
happen in the future.
Valentine M. Moghadam
is a Professor of Sociology and former Director of the International Affairs Program at
Northeastern University. Previously she was a section chief at UNESCO. Her areas of
research include globalization, transnational social movements and gender, politics, and
development in the Middle East and North Africa.
Katherine Hanna
is a Palestinian American and retired educator who is currently working to support
education projects in Occupied Palestine. She is co-founder of the Boston Palestine Film
Festival, Watertown for Palestine and Friends of Zahrat Al Yasmeen Kindergarten, a
school in Bethlehem. She will speak about what we can do to end the Israel genocide and
ethnic cleansing in Palestine.
Saturday, September 13 , 5-7pm at First Parish of Watertown, 35 Church Street
Parking is available in the Church lot accessed off of Summer Street and in the CVS lot off of Church
Street. Use the front entrance facing Church Street
For questions, contact watertowncitizens@gmail.co