Mohja Kahf on NONVIOLENCE – Hold the Date - Dec 29 !! You are invited to an evening discussion on NONVIOLENCE with Syrian nonviolent activist Dr. Mohja Kahf on December 29th. The event is being organized by the Committee in Solidarity with the People of Syria (CISPOS) and co-hosted by FNVW. The venue will be announced soon. Mohja will be skyped in for the presentation and discussion. Mohja Kahf is the author of FNVW’s special report, Then and Now: The Syrian Revolution to Date - A Young Nonviolent Resistance and the Ensuing Armed Struggle. This document is being revised for publication in the journal, Peace Review. Mohja has written for the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s Syrian Information web page since September 2011. She co-authored with Maciej Bartkowski the two part series, The Syria Resistance: a tale of two struggles for the open Democracy E-zine. She is a member of the Syrian Nonviolent Movement. Mohja is a well-known poet, performance artist and novelist. She is a winner of the Arkansas Artist Award for poetry in 2002 and a Pushcart Prize for creative nonfiction in 2010. Mohja is a full professor of comparative literature at the University of Arkansas where she has taught Middle East studies with courses in Palestinian Literature, Syrian Literature and Arab Women’s Writing. She is a signatory to the U.S. Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. We hope you will be able to join us for what will be a stimulating and thoughtful discussion on nonviolence.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 21:05:01 +0000
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