Program Title: Palestinian Children Between Worlds
Description: This program delves into the education, culture, and identity of Palestinian children, exploring the critical importance of nurturing a strong sense of identity in young students.
Join Amahl Bishara, Nora Lester Murad, and moderator Merrie Najimy as they discuss the challenges and responsibilities involved in guiding Palestinian children through the complexities of their cultural heritage and identity, especially in these very difficult times of genocide, and with no end to the occupation in sight, as Israel has ignored the key International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling ordering it do all in its power to prevent genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
Taped on July 17, 2024
Moderator: MERRIE NAJIMY: Educator and former Union Leader
Featured Guests:
AMAHL BISHARA is Associate Professor of the Anthropology Department at Tufts University. She is the author of Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence, & Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression (Stanford 2022), about different conditions of expression for Palestinian citizens of Israel and Palestinians in the West Bank, and she has collaboratively produced bilingual children’s books with Lajee Center in Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem.
NORA LESTER MURAD
Nora Lester Murad is a writer, educator, and activist. Her young adult novel, Ida in the Middle, won the 2023 Arab American Book Award, the 2024 Middle East Book Award, a Skipping Stones Honor Award, and was selected as a finalist for the 2024 Jane Addams Peace Association Children’s Book Award.
She edited I Found Myself in Palestine: Stories of Love and Renewal From Around the Globe (2020) and co-authored Rest in My Shade: A Poem About Roots (2018). While living in Palestine, Nora co-founded Dalia Association, Palestine’s community foundation and Aid Watch Palestine, a community-driven aid accountability initiative in Gaza.
Nora is a Policy Member of Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network, serves on the Board of Visualizing Palestine, and supports other social justice issues.
From a Jewish family, Nora is the mother of three Palestinian daughters and lives with her husband in Massachusetts on the traditional homelands of the Eastern Woodland indigenous peoples.
She shares K-12 teaching resources about Palestine at:
www.IdaInTheMiddle.com
and can be reached through her blog at:
www.NoraLesterMurad.com.
Related links:
https://bostonreview.net/articles/what-isnt-taught-in-israeli-schools/
https://idainthemiddle.com/
https://www.shoppalestine.org
https://teachpalestine.org/
https://lajee.org/
https://www.1for3.org
