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Join us for this joint adult Sunday School Program about the exhibit, “Fragmentation, Separation and Erasure in Palestine.” 9:40 Herman Greene - Welcome, Overview & Introductions
9:45 Carol Miller - About the exhibit & Apartheid-Free Network
9:50 Dr. Burhan Ghanayem - Realities for a lasting peace
10:00 Alaa Hammouda - Life in Palestine, a personal story
10:10 Micah Hughes - Impact of the Israeli/Palestine conflict on the UNC Campus and our community
10:20 Herman Greene-Discussion of what it means to act in faith.
10:35 Carol Miller- Closing upcoming activities/ actions
Alaa Hammouda is a Rotary Peace Scholar with a master’s degree in Global Public Health from UNC . She has extensive experience in humanitarian work, advocacy, gender equality, and women’s empowerment. Alaa founded Daughters of the Land Mutual Aid, an initiative that has led humanitarian aid projects supporting vulnerable communities in Gaza. She also has six years of professional experience leading humanitarian initiatives and working with international organizations such as UNICEF, WHO , INTERPAL UK and Gaza Community Mental Health Programme , focusing on gender equality, women’s empowerment, human rights, and community development.
Dr. Burhan Ghanayem was born in Palestine and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy from Cairo University and was a pharmacist in Kuwait for two years. He immigrated to the United States and attended the University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston) and received his PHD in Environmental Pharmacology and Toxicology. He joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, RTP, NC as a Research Fellow. Dr. Ghanayem retired from the NIH
to become an entrepreneur and established multiple real estate and retail businesses. He is an active volunteer and supporter of many organizations with an emphasis on peace with justice in Palestine and was a co-founder of the North Carolina chapter of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) and instrumental in the establishment of Diabetes Institutes by the Jerusalem Fund in Occupied Palestine. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Coalition for Peace with Justice (CPWJ), the Abrahamic Interfaith Initiative on the Middle East (AIME), and the Muslim American Public Affairs Council (MAPAC).
Dr. Micah Hughes Dr. Micah Hughes is the Associate Director of the newly formed INSITE Middle
East and Islamic Studies. He received his PhD in Islamic Studies from the Department of Religious Studies at UNC-CH. Micah is an intellectual historian specializing in the study of religion, secularism, higher education, and civil society in 20 th -century Turkey. He was formerly a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Muslim Philanthropy Initiative at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Prior to returning to UNC, he worked with an interdisciplinary team of researchers studying Muslim philanthropy from a global perspective. For more about his research, please visit his Academia.edu page. Additionally, he serves as a freelance editor at The Maydan, an online publication of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University, and was the project coordinator for the The Maydan Podcast.
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