Peace Café | The Nonviolent Path to Palestinian Freedom with Ali Abu Awwad
Date and Time
Apr 4, 2023 6:00 pm
Location
450K
450 K St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20001
Apr 4, 2023 6:00 pm
450K
Busboys and Poets’ Peace Café Presents a Conversation with Ali Abu Awwad
Join noted social change and nonviolent resistance activist Ali—the founder of Taghyeer (Change) Palestine—in conversation on Palestinians organizing Palestinians as key toward solution in the ever worsening Palestinian-Israeli conflict. His tale of imprisonment, loss and nonviolent resistance activism tells of building strength and power in Palestinian civil society—of action to address inequality in rights and living conditions to create the environment for peaceful change for both peoples in these desperate times.
Learn more about Taghyeer (Change) PalestineÂ
https://www.taghyeerpal.ps/
Peace Café is a Busboys and Poets program that offers an on-going series of events designed to bring together Arabs, Jews, and those interested in working toward a resolution to the conflict in the Middle East. The focus is on encouraging individuals from various backgrounds to share food and conversation.
Ali Abu Awwad, Palestinian peacebuilder and resistance activist, if co-founder and leader of the Taghyeer (Change) National Nonviolence Movement. In 2016, 3000 Palestinians from all over the West Bank came together in Jericho to launch Taghyeer's on-the-ground activities. Taghyeer addresses social change and community self-development needs—and builds a national nonviolent movement for resistance to occupation. Ali is the author of the forthcoming A Palestinian Manifesto: The Nonviolent Path to Freedom a part of the Ali Abu Awwad Leadership Project to elevate his voice globally on personal and societal transformation and build a Palestinian-led international nonviolence center in Beit Ummar, the town where he grew up.Â
From 2002-2009 Awwad -(imprisoned in the first intifada, along with his PLO leader mother and having lost a brother to IDF violence in 2000 - toured the world on behalf of Bereaved Families Forum with Israeli Robi Damelin (who lost her son to the conflict), speaking together about the path to reconciliation. Ali's life and work has been featured in two award-winning films, Encounter Point and Forbidden Childhood. Awwad initiated the Karama (Dignity) Center on family-owned land in Gush Etzion/Area C in 2013.
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
