Forum Friday in Arlington

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LET GAZA LIVE!

AN EDUCATIONAL FORUM ON THE CURRENT CRISIS

sponsored by Arlington/Lexington United for Justice with Peace

Friday, January 23, 7:30 PM

Cavalry Methodist Church300 Massachusetts Ave.E. Arlington.

While a brutal war has been waged on the defenseless people of Gaza , and rockets launched into Israel, the media distorts what is really going on and more importantly, why. This forum will address the political, military, economic, and ideological reasons behind the latest crisis, the situation on the ground, as well as ways that Americans can help to support the victims and to resolve the crisis. A question and answer session will be included, to encourage audience participation and input.

Speakers:
Elaine Hagopian, Noted authority on the history of conflict in the Middle East. Salma Abu Ayyash, Palestinian activist and educator Howard Lenow, American Jews for a Just Peace Suggested donation $5.00. For more information, call 781-316-2018. Dr. Elaine Hagopian is Professor Emerita of Sociology, Simmons College, Boston. For over fifty years, she has studied the core issues in the Middle East. She has taught at the American University in Beirut and the American University in Cairo. She has received two Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Grants to do research in the M.E. She has worked with UNESCO as a team member doing a feasibility study for an open university for Palestinians, and with UNICEF in the Arabian Gulf evaluating a project in the field on community development and women. She is the editor and author of three books related to Arab and Arab-American issues, and has published some tens of articles on conflicts in the M.E.

Salma Abu Ayyash is a Palestinian born in Jordan. She is co-founder of the Palestinian arts and culture organization Tawassul and is a local Palestinian rights activist. She is an Electrical Engineer by training (MS, Ph.D. ABD). Recently, Salma taught high school math and science and does freelance Arabic-English translations.

Howard Lenow has been a union and civil rights lawyer for almost thirty years. He also has worked closely with dedicated activists seeking a just peace for Palestine through American Jews For A Just Peace and Visions of Peace With Justice in Israel/Palestine, the U.S. Campaign to End the Occupation, the Boston Committee for Palestinian Rights, the Israeli Coalition Against Home Demolition, the Palestinian Medical Relief Society and other peace groups both in the U.S., Palestine and Israel. Over the last five years, through the Health and Human Rights Project, Howard has been a co-leader of five human rights delegations to Israel Palestine and returned from his most recent trip this past November.