{"id":23369,"date":"2004-10-06T13:40:22","date_gmt":"2004-10-06T17:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=23369"},"modified":"2024-07-01T16:36:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T20:36:38","slug":"feminist-peace-activists-working-in-israel-offer-a-pair-of-lectures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2004\/10\/06\/feminist-peace-activists-working-in-israel-offer-a-pair-of-lectures\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace activists working in Israel offer pair of lectures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Safa Abu-Rabia and Hannah Safran, two feminist peace activists working in Israel, offer a pair of lectures Monday, Oct. 11, in Chase Hall, Campus Avenue, Bates College. Titled <em>Israeli-Palestinian Peacework: Two Women&#8217;s Story,<\/em> the afternoon lecture at 4:30 p.m. in Skelton Lounge is part of &#8220;Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the Soul 2004-05.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The evening lecture, <em>The Challenge of Feminist Peacework in Israel and Palestine<\/em>, begins at 8 p.m. in Chase Hall Lounge. The public is invited free of charge to attend both presentations and may call 207-786-8272 for more information.<\/p>\n<p>These events are co-sponsored by the chaplain&#8217;s office, Harward Center for Community Partnerships, the Multicultural Center, Mushahada Association, New World Coalition, the political science department, the Women&#8217;s Resource Center and the program in women and gender studies.<\/p>\n<p>An Arab-Palestinian feminist and peace activist with the Coexistence Forum for Arabs and Jews and with the New Israel Fund&#8217;s Empowerment and Training Center for Social Change Organizations in Israel, Abu-Rabia coordinates the Bedouin Women&#8217;s Empowerment Program that reaches out to Bedouin women and raises their awareness about their rights. &#8220;I believe that living in a reality of conflict does not excuse me from my responsibility and duty towards my society,&#8221; Abu Rabia says.<\/p>\n<p>Safran is an Israeli peace activist with Women in Black, a weekly peace vigil that opposes the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Co-founder of the Coalition of Women for Just Peace, she coordinates the Haifa Feminist Center and the women&#8217;s studies program at the University of Haifa.<\/p>\n<p>The women&#8217;s tour is organized by Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, a network of university faculty promoting peace in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safa Abu-Rabia and Hannah Safran, two feminist peace activists working in Israel, offer a pair of lectures Monday, Oct. 11, in Chase Hall, Campus Avenue, Bates College. 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