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Beyond Survival: Eating & Living in Gaza

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"Gaza Kitchen" authors Laila El-Haddad and Maggie Schmitt alongside Palestinian-American farmer Mohammed Abujayyab will introduce and discuss three new short films depicting different aspects of the food system in besieged Gaza, in a conversation moderated by Nora Barrows-Friedman

Ten years ago Laila El-Haddad and Maggie Schmitt traveled the whole Gaza Strip to learn about and document the area's food system. They learned from home cooks and many others working in the food system their strategies not only for surviving but also for crafting dignity, joy and resistance in the farm, the home garden, the food-processing plant, and the kitchen. Today the need for these skills is more acute than ever.

(In late 2019, Laila returned to Gaza as part of a World Food Program delegation and was able to update her familiarity with the troubled situation there.)

Join our webinar to meet-- via short videos that have been specially pre-recorded for this event by Gaza's Al-Ain Media-- three skilled and courageous workers in the food system that underlines the fine cuisine that Maggie & Laila described in "The Gaza Kitchen". They are: Farmer Intisar al-Najjar, organic farmer Abdulmonim Ahmed, and tahina factory manager Abdulkarim Shakour.

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Dec 12, 2020 01:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Message preview	Hi there, You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Dec 12, 2020 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: Beyond Survival: Eating & Living in Gaza Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fDr6hZgaTi-5zBkDsEgJkA After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. ---------- Webinar Speakers Nora Barrows-Friedman (Associate Editor @Electronic Intifada) Nora Barrows-Friedman is a journalist, staff editor at The Electronic Intifada and the author of In Our Power: US Students Organize for Justice in Palestine (Just World Books, 2014). She has also contributed to Al-Jazeera English, Inter Press Service, Truthout.org, Left Turn magazine, and various other international media outlets. From 2003-2010, she was the Senior Producer and co-host of Flashpoints, an award-winning investigative newsmagazine operating out of KPFA/Pacifica Radio in Berkeley, California. Nora has been regularly reporting from Palestine since 2004. Laila El-Haddad (Co-Author @The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey) Laila El-Haddad, a Palestinian American journalist, food justice advocate and public speaker. Laila is the author of a number of books and co-author of The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey. Through her work as a writer, storyteller, and culinary documentarian she provides much-needed insight into the Palestinian experience. Born in Kuwait to Gaza-Palestinian parents, Laila currently lives with her family in Maryland. Maggie Schmitt (Co-Author @The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey) Maggie Schmitt, a writer, researcher, translator, educator, and social activist is the co-author of the award-winning documentary cookbook The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey. (An expanded Third Edition of Gaza Kitchen will come out in Spring 2021.) Maggie works in various media—writing, video, participatory research—recording the daily practices of ordinary people as a way to understand political and social realities in the Mediterranean region. Her recent work is centered on farm practices and agro-food systems. She lives with her family in rural Spain.

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