2004 Jerusalem Women Speak Tour Schedule and Bios
10 March 2004
2004 Jerusalem Women Speak Tour Schedule and Bios
Preliminary Schedule of Public Events for Jerusalem Women Speak tour
March 17 – April 2, 2004
Washington, DC
Wednesday, March 17
3:00 p.m. American University
McDowell Hall Formal Lounge
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
7:30 p.m. Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation
7727 Persimmon Tree Lane
Bethesda, MD
Thursday, March 18
9:30 a.m. Capitol Hill Briefing hosted by Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson
1302 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC
Friday, April 2
10:30 a.m. Woman’s National Democratic Club Luncheon
1526 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
Luncheon buffet available after event, RSVP (credit card) to Patricia, (202) 232-7363 x 3003, email: pfitzgerald@democraticwoman.org, Cash only at door.
2:30 p.m. Georgetown University
White Gravenor Building, Room 311
Washington, DC
7:00 p.m. Muslim Community Center of Silver Spring
15200 New Hampshire Avenue
Silver Spring, MD
Charlottesville, VA
Thursday, March 18
6:30 p.m. University of Virginia-Charlottesville
New Cabell Hall, Room 138
Charlottesville, VA
Lynchburg, VA
Friday, March 19
3:00 p.m. Randolph-Macon Woman’s College
Martin Science Buidling, Room 315
2500 Rivermont Avenue
Lynchburg, VA
Charlotte, NC
Saturday, March 20
12:00-2:00 p.m. Anti-War/Anti-Occupation Demonstration
Marshall Park
2nd Street and South McDowell Street
Charlotte, NC
Sunday, March 21
2:00 p.m. Islamic Center
559 North Polk Street
Pineville, NC
7:30 p.m. Davidson College
C. Shaw Smith 900
Alvarez College Union
Davidson, NC
Monday, March 22
11:00 a.m. Providence Day School
5800 Sardis Road
Charlotte, NC
Seating limited: Call 704-887-6001 to reserve your space.
7:00 p.m. Covenant Presbyterian Church
1000 East Morehead Street
Charlotte, NC
Atlanta, GA
March 23
7:00 p.m. Emory University
White Hall, Room 207
Atlanta, GA
March 24
8:00 p.m. Kennesaw State University
Science Building
1000 Chastain Road
Kennesaw, GA
Birmingham, AL
Thursday, March 25
6:30 p.m. Southside Baptist Church
11th Street and 19th Avenue South
Birmingham, AL
Friday, March 26
2:30 p.m. Unitarian Universalist Church of Birmingham
4300 Hampton Heights Road
Birmingham, AL
5:00 p.m. Highland Coffee Company
2255 Highland Avenue
Birmingham, AL
7:30 p.m. St. George Melkite Greek Catholic Church
401 10th Avenue South
Birmingham, AL
Asheville and Black Mountain, NC
Sunday, March 28
11:00 a.m. Quaker/Unitarian Service at Black Mountain Primary School
East State Street
Black Mountain, NC
3:00 p.m. Black Mountain Public Library
105 North Dougherty Street
Black Mountain, NC
5:30 p.m. Service begins at 5:30 and presentation at 6:30
Circle of Mercy
All Souls Episcopal Cathedral, Parish Hall
9 Swan Street
Asheville, NC
Greensboro, NC
Monday, March 29
7:30 p.m. Guilford College
Founders Gallery on the 2nd Floor of Founders Hall
College Student Union
Greensboro, NC
Triangle, NC
Tuesday, March 30
1:00-2:30 p.m. Carol Woods Retirement Community
Community Room
750 Weaver Dairy Road
Chapel Hill, NC
6:30-8:30 p.m International Visitors/World Affairs Council/UN Association – Triangle Chapter at Community United Church of Christ
814 Dixie Trail
Raleigh, NC
Donations welcome.
Richmond, VA
Wednesday, March 31
7:00 p.m. Unity Christ Church
923 Buford Road
Richmond, VA
Thursday, April 1
7:00 p.m. Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond
Turnbull Room, Virginia Hall
3400 Brook Road
Richmond, VA
Please note:
This is a tentative schedule, please check back to our website (www.partnersforpeace.org) or call (202) 863-2951 for the latest information.
SPEAKER BIOS FOR JERUSALEM WOMEN SPEAK TOUR
Muslim Palestinian Participant
Nahla Assali
A Muslim Palestinian, Nahla Assali was born in West Jerusalem in 1938. In 1948, after the Deir Yassin massacre, her father sent the family to live in Damascus. They were never allowed to return to their original home in West Jerusalem. She is a refugee registered with the United Nations.
Ms. Assali received her BA in English Literature from the American University of Beirut and her MA from Indiana State University. She recently retired from Birzeit University’s Department of English Language and Literature after working for more than 25 years as a lecturer. She lives in Beit Hanina between Ramallah and East Jerusalem.
Ms. Assali works for children’s rights in her position as co-founder and chair of Project Loving Care, a child sponsorship program initiated in 1968. Ms. Assali is also co-founder and chair of the Saraya Centre for Community Services, which provides training for women and informal education for children.
She writes, “What we actually need is a ‘fair hand’ to take hold of Ariadne’s thread and unravel all the complexities of the situation.”
Christian Palestinian Participant
Dr. Nuha Khoury
A Christian Palestinian, Dr. Nuha Khoury was born in Jerusalem and lives and works today in Bethlehem. Her family’s roots date back to the early Christian community in Palestine. She is the Deputy Director of the Dar al-Kalima Academy, where she administers programs, raises funds, and gives lectures to visiting groups on the current political situation, Islamic history, and Palestinian women.
Dr. Khoury received her PhD in Islamic History from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in 1996. Between 1997 and 1999 she taught at Bethlehem University.
Dr. Khoury is a member of the Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Palestine and Jordan and a church elder at the Christmas Lutheran Church in Bethlehem. She organized and ran the Palestinian area studies section of the Friends World Program at the Middle East Center in Jerusalem.
Her father died tragically in January of 2004 when he was denied passage past a checkpoint on the way to the hospital because he did not hold a “sickness permit” to attest to his massive heart attack. Even his American passport was not able to get him to a Jerusalem hospital. She notes that her father’s story “is only one among hundreds of thousands of stories.”
Jewish Israeli Participant
Michal Sagi
A Jewish Israeli, Michal Sagi is the daughter of Israeli-born parents of European descent. She was raised in Haifa and currently lives in Jerusalem.
For the past seven years, Ms. Sagi has worked at Melitz, an organization providing informal educational services to Israelis and Diaspora Jews. For seven years prior, Ms. Sagi worked at the Jewish Agency for Israel to promote solidarity in the Jewish community throughout the world.
Last year Ms. Sagi participated in the Palestinian-Israeli delegation for dialogue, “Nonviolent Women Leadership,” sponsored by the U.S. State Department and the British government.
Ms. Sagi is actively involved with Checkpoint Watch, a women’s human rights monitoring group which reports on its observations at Israeli military and police checkpoints in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. She writes, “I am going out to the checkpoint to protest and to show both Palestinians and Israelis that there is a different voice calling to keep human rights and remove checkpoints.”
