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Black Sheep Books, a community space and bookstore in Montpelier, Vermont, offers affordable radical and scholarly books, and hosts educational events on cultural and political topics. As an all-volunteer project, we are operated by a five-member collective hand in hand with a group of dedicated volunteers. Our principle focus is to provide access to anti-authoritarian Left ideas in a way that promotes intellectual debate and challenges today’s hegemonic culture.

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Black Sheep Books is an all-volunteer
workers' collective specializing in radical
and scholarly used books.
4 Langdon Street, Montpelier, VT | (802) 225-8906
Jerusalem Women Speak: Three Women, Three Faiths, One Shared Vision

10/21/06 11:00am

2006-10-21 10:00
2006-10-21 12:01
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featuring:
Ghada Ageel (Khan Younis, Palestine)
Shireen Khamis (Beit Jala, Palestine)
Rela Mazali (Herzlia, Israel)

These three women--a Christian, a Jew, and a Muslim--are living the realities of the Israeli-Palestinian situation: the loss of family, the demolition of homes, persecution, occupation, violence, the separation barrier currently being constructed in the West Bank, Israel’s unilateral "disengagement" from the Gaza Strip, recent escalations in Gaza and Lebanon, and more. They are touring the United States for three weeks to demonstrate that a just peace, while difficult, is possible. As working professionals, activists, mothers, daughters, and partners, these women live the hardships of the conflict and the tragedy of occupation in unique ways.

Join us for their stories, followed by discussion.
Organized by Partners for Peace, Washington, DC.

Ghada Ageel (age 35), a Muslim Palestinian, lives in Gaza and works as an academic counselor for the Academy for Educational Development pursuing her doctorate in Middle East politics from the University of Exeter. She studied Hebrew in Israel, taught Arabic in Gaza, participated in forums in Israel to promote awareness concerning the life of Palestinians, and has served as a media translator for journalists. Her work is shaped by her identity as a Palestinian refugee. Ms. Ageel writes a weekly Web diary about her life under occupation.

Shireen Khamis (age 23), a Christian Palestinian, has seen the course of her life shaped by occupation and two Palestinian intifadas. Ms. Khamis graduated in 2005 from Bethlehem University with a BA in business administration and a minor in marketing. She is now a project coordinator with an organization seeking to empower Palestinian women through media training and education. She is also active with a number of local organizations working on promoting democracy, nonviolence, human rights, gender equality, and conflict resolution.

Rela Mazali (age 58), a Jewish Israeli, served in the Israeli military during the 1967 war, and later obtained her BA and master’s degrees in English literature and literary science from Tel Aviv University. A writer and translator, Ms. Mazali is a major figure in the Israeli peace and feminist movement--one of eight Israeli women nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 by the One Thousand Peacewomen Project. She is a co-founder of New Profile, a grassroots project that challenges militarism in Israeli society while providing support for Israeli youth who resist military service, and has worked for the Association of Israeli-Palestinian Physicians for Human Rights.

For more information on these three women, the tour, and Partners for Peace, see www.partnersforpeace.org.

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