- Reminder: informal ‘Dardesheh’ discussion this Saturday 4th September at 4pm(UK) / 6pm(Palestine):
- “Mental Health in Gaza Strip: An Area Populated by Refugees”
This major three day event is the 8th international conference organised by the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme. It begins this Sunday 5th Sept. All national and international health workers are invited to participate in an extremely rich programme of presentations. Please enter the following link for registration:
https://forms.gle/NdSShJMVJcuTjMjy5
You will receive the conference agenda and all relevant documents through your registration on the link above. For the full invitation from the Director of the GCMHP, see below.
- “Fanon in Palestine: The Struggle for Justice as the Core of Mental Health”
This paper by Drs Samah Jabr and Elizabeth Berger is, truly, essential reading. Fanon, a psychiatrist committed to social and racial justice and to a universal humanism, exposing the psychological consequences of the coloniser-colonised relationship, has long been as an inspiration to engaged health workers. Jabr and Berger here provide an inspirational Fanonian survey of mental health work to Palestine, with sections on the clinic, research, and solidarity activism by the mental health community. It successfully locates, contextualises and frames the work of the Palestine Global Mental Health Network, and those international Networks working in solidarity.
The paper forms a chapter in a new book, Fanon Today: Reason and Revolt of the Wretched of the Earth’, edited by Nigel Gibson and issued by socialist publisher Daraja Press. To maximise accessibility, purchasers determine how much they can afford to pay – ‘from each according to his ability’! Along with this paper, there are a further 23 chapters… Available here:
https://darajapress.com/publication/fanon-today-the-revolt-and-reason-of-the-wretched-of-the-earth
- Child Mental Health events
a) “Back to School Advocacy for Palestinian Children”
A #NoWayToTreatAChild seminar organised by Defence of the Child International, the American Friends Service Committee and The Ireland Palestine Alliance.
Tuesday 14th September 5pm (UK) / 7pm (Palestine)
Further details and registration here: https://tinyurl.com/2jbtcusu
b) “The Psychological Dialectics of Gun to Body: Palestinian Children and/in the Settler Colony”
A Limbus Lecture with invited speaker Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian.
Saturday September 25th,10.30am-12.45pm (UK) / (12.30pm-2.45pm Palestine).
Register here: http://www.limbus.org.uk/
- “Bearing Witness: Healthcare in Gaza”
This is the first of a series of meetings in a new campaign organised by MedAct, representing engaged health workers in the UK. “The campaign aims to provide a space for health workers in regions affected by conflict and humanitarian crisis, starting with Gaza, to speak of their experiences of working in health, and for their peers in the UK to listen and seek to understand.” A powerful article explaining the campaign, written by Dr Hesham Abdalla, can be found here:
Register for the event, taking place on Monday 13th September at 6pm (UK) / 8pm (Palestine), here:
- “Bearing Witness: Healthcare in Gaza”
This is the first of a series of meetings in a new campaign organised by MedAct, representing engaged health workers in the UK. “The campaign aims to provide a space for health workers in regions affected by conflict and humanitarian crisis, starting with Gaza, to speak of their experiences of working in health, and for their peers in the UK to listen and seek to understand.” A powerful article explaining the campaign, written by Dr Hesham Abdalla, can be found here:
Register for the event, taking place on Monday 13th September at 6pm (UK) / 8pm (Palestine), here:
Appendix:
Invitation to GCMHP Conference, with links to register and zoom links to the conference halls:
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
It is with pleasure that Gaza Community Mental Health Programme invites you to attend the 8th International Conference via zoom, on September 5,6,7 2021 under the rubric “Mental Health in Gaza Strip: An Area Populated by Refugees”.
The conference aims to open a space for research papers and practical experiences related to Gaza context in the last 2 years to be presented and discussed amidst the participation of national and international specialists working in the sectors of mental health and human rights.
The conference is based on three themes: the socioeconomic conditions in the Gaza strip; Mental health conditions of the population in Gaza; MHPSS services/interventions available in the Gaza Strip; gaps to be bridged.
Please enter the following link for registration:
https://forms.gle/NdSShJMVJcuTjMjy5
You will receive the conference agenda and all relevant documents through your registration on the link above.
The participation links:
The conference zoom link for Hall 1
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83930648956?pwd=VzQ2NjFUOVFpUTJRQzVPanVjVHh3UT09
The conference zoom link for Hall 2
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84764756177?pwd=cENEQTVlVHIxRU1Zb29RT3NWeTdlUT09
Yasser Abu Jamei MD
Director General
Gaza Community Mental Health Programme
الشبكة البريطانية الفلسطينية للصحة النفسية 