Videos

The featured speaker of the 2019 James Graff Memorial Lecture was Palestinian-Canadian playwright, author, political analyst and activist Samah Sabawi. She has written and produced the critically acclaimed plays Cries from the Land, Three Wishes, and Tales of a City by the Sea. The title of her talk is “Decolonizing Activism: Resistance Through Art.”

This year’s speaker for the annual James Graff Memorial Lecture was Dr. Tarek Loubani. Dr. Loubani is a Canadian doctor who was in Gaza during the Great March of Return in 2018. The program is sponsored by the Canadian Friends of Sabeel (https://friendsofsabeel.ca/) , and hosted by Emmanuel College, at the University of Toronto.

“When we speak about Palestine, when we speak about the Right of Return, when we speak about Jerusalem, we are not divided by sects. We are one people. We are one nation. We are one cause . . . [W]e are one single sect whose name is the Palestinian Arab people.”

Rev. Naim Ateek, founder of Sabeel, the Ecumenical Liberation Theology Centre in Jerusalem, talks in 2009 about one of his earlier books, A Palestinian Christian Cry for Reconciliation. Video available in full at www.pdxjustice.org.

We Are Not Numbers reporter Rakan Abed El Rahman provides a harrowing, up-close look at the state of health care in Gaza, due to the Israeli/Egyptian blockade and internal political rivalries. The lives of Palestinians in Gaza hang in hang in the balance. With masterful editing by Anas Mohammed Jnena.