Online Film Salons
Q&A Discussion on Come and See; Go and Tell --- Next Year in Palestine with Rifat Kassis, author; human rights activist, General Coordinator of Kairos Palestine & Global Kairos for Justice; Sam Bahour, Ramallah-based Palestinian-American writer, businessperson, and activist; and Rev. Dr. Mae Elise Cannon, Executive Director, Churches for Middle East Peace. Dr. Michael Spath, founder & Executive Director of Indiana Center for Middle East Peace moderated the conversation. Be sure to check out the Bonus links at the end. This event was co-sponsored by Friends of Sabeel North America, Churches for Middle East Peace, Palestinian Christian Alliance for Peace, Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service, Indiana Center for Middle East Peace
Q&A Discussion on THE SETTLERS with Shimon Dotan - filmmaker and University instructor on Political Cinema and Film Directing; Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro - scholar, author, Board Director at International Council for Middle East Studies; and Lara Friedman (moderator) -President, Foundation for Middle East Peace. This event was Co-Sponsored by Tzedek Chicago and Jewish Voice for Peace – Chicago.
October 11, 2022 - Q&A Discussion on BOYCOTT with Bahia Amawi, protagonist in the film and litigant in lawsuit against anti-BDS legislation; Peter Beinart, editor-at-large at Jewish Currents and professor of journalism; Jen Marlowe, author, filmmaker, playwright, and human rights activist; Suhad Babaa, producer, news publisher, and Executive Director and President of Just Vision, and John Floyd, criminal law attorney, president of CAIR-Houston, and plaintiff lawyer for two successful lawsuits against Texas anti-BDS legislation. Alex McDonald, co-founder of Texas Coalition for Human Rights, co-leader of Quaker Palestine-Israel Network, and VFHL Steering Committee member moderated this discussion. This event was Co-Sponsored by United Methodist Kairos Response and Methodist Federation for Social Action.
Q&A Discussion Skies Above Hebron with anthropological documentary filmmaker Esther Hertog; artist and writer specializing in visual studies Liat Berdugo; Hebron native specializing in settler colonialism Lubna Alzaroo; and reporter, essayist, book author, co-host “War Stories” podcast Adin Dobkin (Moderator) This event was co-sponsored by United Church of Christ - Palestine Israel Network.
Q&A Discussion on the filmed version of the original play How to Make a Revolution. Playwright, actor and theatre director Einat Weizman, and Issa Amro, human rights defender and founder of Youth Against Settlements, talk with Miko Peled, Israeli-American author and human rights activist. This event was co-sponsored by Indiana Center for Middle East Peace.
Q&A Discussion on Journalism Under Occupation - In Memory of Shireen Abu Akleh, with panelists Yumna Patel, Bethlehem-based Palestine News Director at Mondoweiss and Lia Tarachansky, Israeli-Canadian journalist and filmmaker. Maha Nassar, Associate Professor in School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Arizona, moderated this conversation. This event was co-sponsored by Virginia Coalition for Human Rights and Green Mountain Solidarity With Palestine.
Q&A conversation about Graphic Arts as Resistance: Palestine Posters with Palestine Poster Project Archive founder-curator Dan Walsh and Angela Miller, Professor of Art History, Washington University in St. Louis. This event was co-sponsored by the Quaker Palestine-Israel Network
Q&A discussion on Art as Resistance: Truth and Consequences with panelists Sliman Mansour, renowned Palestinian artist and founder of International Academy of Art, Lina Abojaradeh, Palestinian artist and Ghassan Kanafani Resistance Art Scholarship winner, and Ahmed Hmeetdat (moderator), Palestinian painter and Human Rights & International Law instructor at Al Quds Bard College in East Jerusalem. This event was co-sponsored by Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Q&A discussion on B'Tselem Camera Project film Of Land and Bread with panelists Roy Yellin, Director of Public Advocacy, and Ruthie Ginsburg, faculty member at HaMidrasha School of Art of Beit Berl Academic College. Jamal Najjab, photojournalist and human rights advocate, moderated the conversation. This event was co-sponsored by the Israel-Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church USA.
Q&A Discussion on the film ADVOCATE with Lea Tsemel, Israeli attorney and advocate for Palestinian human rights, and Rachel Leah Jones , filmmaker, writer, editor, and social justice advocate. Jim Fine – Former director, Quaker Legal Aid Office in Jerusalem, moderated the conversation. This event was co-sponsored by Non-Violence International.