<div style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><b>EYEWITNESS GAZA</b></font><br><br>A new slide show by Skip Schiel<br><br>Thursday, February 24, 7:00 pm<br><br>Cambridge Family YMCA Theater (<u>not</u> the Central Square Theater)<br>
<br>820 Massachusetts Ave, Central Square, Cambridge <br><br>Introduction with discussion moderated by Dr. Nancy Murray, President of the Gaza Mental Health Foundation<br></div><br><div style="text-align: center;"><img title="Awajah.jpg" alt="Awajah.jpg" src="cid:ii_12e4fdb085c767d8"><br>
<br><i>Wafaa Awajah</i> <i>& son</i><br></div><br>The slide show concentrates on youth, from childhood to young adult—their conditions and their struggles. Schiel highlights a family, the Samouni's, massacred
during the Israeli assault of 2008-2009 and how they're
recovering. Also another family, the Awajah's, still living in tents 2
years after the assault of Operation Cast Lead. How do people endure,
what provides them hope, what responsibility does the international community have
in bringing justice and peace to that sorely afflicted region?<br><br>Special feature: preview screening of a new documentary about Gaza thru the lens of Skip Schiel, with the entire evening's event video-recorded for the forthcoming movie, <i>Eyewitness Gaza.</i><br>
<br>Preview here: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMTjjoB3bW0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMTjjoB3bW0</a><br><br>Info: 617-441-7756<br><br>NOTE TO THOSE OF YOU OUTSIDE THE BOSTON AREA: please consider inviting Skip Schiel to present this or any of his other slide shows or print exhibitions about Palestine-Israel at a venue in your region.<br>
<br>+++++++++++<br><br>Skip Schiel (a.k.a Ein al-Nour)<br><br>9 Sacramento St<br>Cambridge MA 02138-1843 USA<br><a href="mailto:skipschiel@gmail.com">skipschiel@gmail.com</a><br>617-441-7756 (land line)<br>617-230-6314 (mobile, used only on special occasions)<br>
<a href="http://teeksaphoto.org">http://teeksaphoto.org</a><br><a href="http://skipschiel.wordpress.com">http://skipschiel.wordpress.com</a><br><br><i>Turn me like a waterwheel turning a millstone.<br><br>Plenty of water, a Living River.<br>
<br>Keep me in one place and scatter the love.<br><br>Leaf moves in wind, straw drawn toward amber,<br><br>all parts of the world are in love,<br><br>but they do not tell their secrets. Cows grazing<br><br>on a sacramental table, ants whispering in Solomon's ear.<br>
<br>Mountains mumbling an echo. Sky, calm.<br><br>If the sun were not in love, he would have no brightness,<br><br>the side of the hill no grass on it.<br><br>The ocean would come to rest somewhere.</i><br><br>—"Mystical Poems of Rumi 1" translated by A.J. Arberry<br>
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