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The following alphabetical list of speakers and topics
is for the "Ending the Silence: Voices from the Holy Land" Sabeel Conference, October 20-21, 2006
Rev. Dr.
Fahed Abu-Akel | Dr.
Mubarak Awad | Anna Baltzer |
Phyllis Bennis |
Jennifer Bing-Canar | Cindy and
Craig Corrie | Dr. Moussa
Elbayoumy | Dr. Jeff
Halper | Rick Hellman
| Jonathan Kuttab
| Rabbi Mark Levin |
Rev.
Sandra Olewine | Refuser
Solidarity | Rev. Don Wagner
| Rev. James M. Wall
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Rev. Dr.
Fahed Abu-Akel,
moderator of the 214th General Assembly,
Presbyterian Church U.S.A., is a
Palestinian-American who serves the church in
Atlanta, where, among other things, he directs
Christmas International House, a program that
matches international students with U.S.
families for the Christmas holidays.
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Dr. Mubarak
Awad, a psychologist
in Washington, D.C., is the founder and director
of Nonviolence International, advocating
peaceful solutions to the Palestine-Israel
conflict. He speaks at conferences throughout
the U.S. and abroad.
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Anna Baltzer, is a
Jewish-American, granddaughter of a Holocaust
survivor, Columbia University graduate,
Fulbright scholar and volunteer with the
International Women’s Peace Service. Anna’s
presentation covers checkpoints, settlements,
demonstrations, Israeli activism, environmental
issues, the Separation Wall, and more. She is
author of Witness in Palestine: Journal of a
Jewish American Woman in the Occupied
Territories.
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Phyllis
Bennis, a fellow at
the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington,
D.C., is a sought-after writer and speaker with
expertise in Middle East and United Nations
issues. She helped found the U.S. Campaign to
End the Occupation and among her many writings
is the widely distributed booklet
Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict:
A Primer. Her most recent book is
Challenging Empire: How People, Governments and
the UN Defy U.S. Power.
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Jennifer Bing-Canar
is Program Director for the Chicago American
Friends Service Committee's Middle East Program.
She has produced and directed two video
documentaries on Arab-Americans, the most recent
of which is on Chicago Palestinian survivors of
the 1948 war.
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Cindy and
Craig Corrie are
parents of Rachel Corrie, a young American woman
who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in the
Gaza Strip on March 16, 2003. The Corries
continue their daughter’s work through the
Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice.
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Dr. Moussa Elbayoumy
was born and raised in Egypt and has been living
in the U.S. for 26 years. He is currently
serving as Director of the Islamic Center of
Lawrence. A physician by training, he is the
Director of the St. Francis Heart and Vascular
Institute.
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Dr. Jeff
Halper is Coordinating
Director of the Israeli Committee Against House
Demolitions and a 2006 nominee for the Nobel
Peace Prize. He is an Israeli-American peace
activist, professor of anthropology,
distinguished author and internationally
acclaimed speaker. The 3rd edition of his
popular book, Obstacles to Peace: A
Reframing of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
was released in 2005.
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Rick Hellman
is editor of The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle.
He is a 1980 journalism graduate of the
University of Kansas. He has worked as a
reporter and editor for the St. Joseph, Mo.,
News-Press and Gazette, Sun Publications of
Overland Park, Kan., which publishes the
Chronicle. He visited Israel four times between
1975 and 2002. He was the founding chairman of
the Kansas City Jewish Film Festival, the ninth
annual edition of which is scheduled for March
17-24, 2007.
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Jonathan
Kuttab, a leading human rights lawyer in
Israel and Palestine. Mr. Kuttab was born in
West Jerusalem, but after the Six Day War, his
family moved to the United States, where he
later earned his law degree from the University
of Virginia. After practicing with a Wall Street
law firm for several years, he returned to his
homeland and co-founded the Palestinian Center
for the Study of Nonviolence, Al-Haq (lawyers
and others who assist with human rights issues),
and the Mandela Institute for Political
Prisoners. He is licensed to practice law in
Palestine, Israel, and New York.
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Rabbi Mark H. Levin
has served Congregation Beth Torah in Overland
Park since 1988 to the present. He has a Doctor
of Hebrew Letters from HUC-JIR New York and is a
resident of Prairie Village, Kansas. Rabbi Levin
recently returned from Israel.
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Rev.
Sandra Olewine was
appointed as the United Methodist Liaison to
Jerusalem in 1996 and served in that capacity
for 9 1/2 years. Having returned to the US last
spring to begin a new ministry in Long Beach,
California, she continues to write and speak
with authority about life under occupation and
its effects on both Palestinians and Israelis.
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Refuser
Solidarity Network
supports young people in Israel
whose consciences will not allow them to do
their obligatory military service in the
occupied territories, sends a speaker
about the growing number of Refusers at all
levels of the Israeli military, many who have
faced imprisonment.
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Rev. Don Wagner,
a cofounder of Evangelicals for Middle East
Understanding, is professor of religion and
Middle Eastern studies at North Park University,
Chicago. Among his books are his most recent,
Dying in the Land of Promise: Palestine and
Palestinian Christianity from Pentecost to 2000,
and Anxious for Armageddon-which deals
with Christian Zionism and alternative ways of
understanding scripture and the Christian
tradition.
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Rev.
James M. Wall
is the senior contributing editor for The
Christian Century magazine, which is based in
Chicago. From 1972-1999, he was the editor of
the magazine. He has made numerous visits to
the Middle East since 1973. His most recent
trip was in January. He writes and speaks
frequently on Palestinian and Israeli
relations.
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Conference workshop topic: "Divestment, Dialogue, and the Tale of
Two Lobbies"
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Background article:
"Unilateral proposal. boycotted"
(Christian Century, June 13, 2006)
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