Activist to speak on Palestinian-Israeli conflict
Peace and social justice activist Sandra Tamari will discuss changing the dialogue about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to focus on equal rights instead of nationalist ambitions Wednesday night.
Her lecture is titled “Palestinians Rather Than Palestine: Shifting the Discussion about Peace and Justice in Palestine and Israel.” It will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday in 210 Strickland Hall, according to the event flyer.
Tamari participated in the December 2009 Gaza Freedom March, a nonviolent demonstration in Egypt to raise awareness about the humanitarian situation in Gaza which called for an end to the Israeli occupation.
Tamari was formerly the assistant director of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University, according to the event flyer. She was a Fulbright scholar in Jordan. She has also worked in the West Bank and Lebanon, the flyer said.
The Palestinian Israel Peace Association, Columbia Peace Coalition, Columbia Friends Meeting and Mid-Missouri Fellowship of Reconciliation organized the lecture, according to the event flyer.