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Dear friends, We are circulating this invitation to a meeting organised by the Palestine-Global Mental Health Network as part of the ongoing Ahmad Manasra campaign. This meeting will replace the regular UK-Palestine Mental Health Network Cafe Palestine in the month of June.

Abolish Incarceration of Palestinian Children

Call for Immediate Release of Ahmad Manasra:
Campaign and Petition

WEDNESDAY 15^TH JUNE
6pm (London) 8pm (Palestine) 1pm (New York)

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86478753243?pwd=Y051Vm5xbDV3OE55NnpyT2phL1pYQT09

The Palestine Global Mental Health Network invites you to join activists, Psychiatrists, and Mental Health experts in their urgent campaign and petition to free Ahmad Manasra from incarceration. Ahmad is now 20, but has been incarcerated by Israel since he was 13 years old.   They will explore the heightened challenges facing young Palestinians – children and adolescents – growing up within the apartheid reality of occupied Palestine, as well as addressing the threats to their mental health under Israel’s dire incarceration practices.   The report on Ahmad’s condition by an international group of psychiatrists will be shared for circulation.    Speakers will include: Mr. and Mrs. Manasra (Ahmad Manasra’s parents), Dr. Elizabeth Berger, Dr. Samah Jabr, Dr. Brooke Maddux, Dr. Gwyneth Daniel, Dr. Hasanen Al-Taiar and Dr. Sammy Rahal.   Heba Zaphiriou-Zarifi GAP-UKCP-IAAP          Meeting Chair

Café Palestine 34
Bedouins of the Naqab: Resisting erasure in ’48 Palestine
Friday 27th May 3.45pm (UK time) / 5.45pm (Pal time)
Please note change from our usual day

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85398411238?pwd=PhjBP-2Y6HP_CNAPt9kwmR1b9SJKU_.1
The Cafe will open with live music at 3.45pm (UK time) / 5.45pm (Pal).
The discussion will start at 4.00pm (UK) / 6.00pm (Pal).
The whole event is expected to finish at about 5.30pm (UK) / 7.30pm (Pal).

Bedouins of the Naqab: resisting erasure in ’48 Palestine The Café will be chaired by Einas Haj (Behavioral therapist and psychologist). Einas will be joined  by Huda Abu O’beid (Bachelor of Laws LLB): Shireen Abu Bader (Psychotherapist and Counseling Psychologist); and Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian. This Café will shed light on the reality of life for Palestinian Bedouins of the Naqab, the southern lands colonised in 1948, where the struggle against ethnic displacement continues on a daily basis. Over half of the 160,000 Naqab Bedouins reside in “unrecognized villages”, whose residents the Israeli government is trying to push into government-planned urban centers that disregard their lifestyle and needs. Although nominally Israeli citizens, they are denied basic services and infrastructure. Whole communities have been issued with demolition orders, and their villages are regularly bulldozed as part of a policy of Judaization. Palestinian Bedouin communities have been subject to systematic dispossession and economic de-development. The struggle to remain on the land has resulted in intensifying State oppression We shall hear from academics and clinicians working in the Naqab, who will discuss the legal, social and psychological aspects of this situation. Chair- Einas Odeh Haj: Certified psychotherapist from Nazareth. Working at private practice with adults and adolescents. Coordinator of the Liberation Psychology program at Mada al-Carmel, the Arab Center for Applied Social Research in Haifa and its former associate director. She holds a masters degree in educational counselling and a post graduate diploma in psychotherapy from the Department of Psychology at Haifa University. Member of ITA, the Israeli Association for Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy. Social and political activist. Concerned with the psychosocial well-being of Palestinian individuals and community. Huda Abu O’baid: The coordinator of the lobby at the Negev Coexistence Forum. She holds a BA in Middle Eastern and Feminist Studies, and a BA in Law. An activist interested in human rights issues in the Negev, she is one of the initiators of the “Prawer will not pass” campaign against the Prawer Plan for the mass displacement of Palestinian Bedouin communities from the Negev. Shereen Abu Bader:  Shereen works as a High School English teacher at a Bedouin Arab School in the Naqab. She has a Masters in Counseling Psychology with a concentration in Drama Therapy from California Institute of Integral Studies. Since 2017, she has been working with Bedouin Arab survivors of sexual assault. In 2021 she joined “Hosen Center” where she works with Bedouin Arabs with diverse traumas. During May 2021, she joined the initiative of providing emotional and psychological support for families of young people who were arrested by Israeli forces. Together with other volunteers she would visit families, offering communal support whilst also providing an initial mental health intervention. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian is professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is a Palestinian feminist activist and the Chair in Global Law at Queen Mary University of London. Author of numerous works focusing on the psycho-social-legal impact of the occupation, in particular upon children.   2. Mental Health in Palestine: Resisting Settler Colonial Partition   Thursday, 2nd June 2022  6-8pm (UK time) 8-10pm (Palestine time) https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mental-health-in-palestine-resisting-settler-colonial-partition-tickets-343364922727 The Learning Cooperative and the Red Clinic present this special event bringing together mental health clinicians working across partitioned Palestinian society – Gaza, Jerusalem, Ramallah and the West Bank, Nazareth and Haifa – to offer an integrated view of the psychological impact of the continuous trauma of apartheid and occupation. Dr Yasser Abu Jamei is a neuropsychiatrist and the General Director of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, the largest mental health service providers in the Gaza Strip. He has overseen the provision of psychological support through multiple Israeli onslaughts, in a region experiencing one of the worst mental health crises in the world. Rana Nashashibi is the Director of the Palestinian Counseling Center, where she has pioneered the provision of mental health and counseling services in the Palestinian community. She has also played a key role in the formation and supervision of women’s support groups in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Ms Nashashibi stands on many national and regional boards and steering committees such as the Palestinian National steering committee on mental health, the Arab Resource Collective, the Mehwar Center for survivors of domestic violence and the Popular Arts Center. She has been a lecturer in the Psychology Department at Birzeit University since 1997. Dr Mustafa Qossoqsi is a clinical psychologist and family and couples psychotherapist, based at the EMMS Nazareth hospital where he is the chief clinical psychologist of the Psychiatric Department. He is also a clinical supervisor at the Maana Psychotherapeutic Centre. Dr Qossoqsi has researched the intergenerational effects of the Nakbah on internally displaced Palestinians and has been instrumental in developing training in Arabic for Palestinian Psychologists. He is co-founder and former head of the Arab Psychological Association and co- founder of the Palestine Global Network. He is also a published poet. Rozeen Marjieh is educational psychologist, mental health care activist and member of Palestine Global Mental Health Network based in Haifa. The event will be chaired by Dr Lara Sheehi, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the George Washington University Professional Psychology program and secretary and president-elect of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology. Dr Sheehi is the co-author with Stephen Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mental-health-in-palestine-resisting-settler-colonial-partition-tickets-343364922727

Café Palestine 34 Bedouins of the Naqab: Resisting erasure in ’48 Palestine Friday 27th May 3.45pm (UK time) / 5.45pm (Pal time) Please note change from our usual day https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85398411238?pwd=PhjBP-2Y6HP_CNAPt9kwmR1b9SJKU_.1 The Cafe will open with live music at 3.45pm (UK time) / 5.45pm (Pal). The discussion will start at 4.00pm (UK) / 6.00pm (Pal). The whole event is expected to finish at about 5.30pm (UK) / 7.30pm (Pal).

Bedouins of the Naqab: Resisting erasure in ’48 Palestine

This Café will shed light on the reality of life for Palestinian Bedouins of the Naqab, the southern lands colonised in 1948, where the struggle against ethnic displacement continues on a daily basis.   Over half of the 160,000 Naqab Bedouins reside in “unrecognized villages”, whose residents the Israeli government is trying to push into government-planned urban centers that disregard their lifestyle and needs. Although nominally Israeli citizens, they are denied basic services and infrastructure. Whole communities have been issued with demolition orders, and their villages are regularly bulldozed as part of a policy of Judaization. Palestinian Bedouin communities have been subject to systematic dispossession and economic de-development. The struggle to remain on the land has resulted in intensifying State oppression. We shall hear from academics and clinicians working in the Naqab, who will discuss the legal, social and psychological aspects of this situation.

The Café will be chaired by Einas Haj (Behavioral therapist and psychologist). Einas will be joined by Prof. Sarab Abu Rbie’a (Prof in social sciences); Huda Abu O’beid (Bachelor of Laws LLB): and Shireen Abu Bader (Psychotherapist and Counseling Psychologist).

Cafe Palestine 32
Saturday 22nd January
3.45pm (UK time) / 5.45pm (Pal time)
Lara Sheehi and Stephen Sheehi with
Najla Asmar, Yoa’d Ghanadry-Hakim, Fathy Flefel, Wadad Bouchahine and Rana Nashashibi
Moderated by Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and Heba Zaphiriou-Zarifi
“Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine”
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85782607028?pwd=eHRTMU9MeHBXTlZHMXduS2NzNE91QT09

Please use this link to tweet about the Cafe: https://bit.ly/31ZHPEC

The Cafe will open with live music at 3.45pm (UK time) / 5.45pm (Pal time)The discussion will start at 4.00pm (UK) / 6.00pm (Palestine). The whole event is expected to finish at about 5.30pm (UK) / 7.30pm (Palestine)

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ARABIC TRANSLATION AT CAFE PALESTINE: Throughout Cafe Palestine there will be a rolling Arabic text summary of the presentation, questions and answers available via Whatsapp. Please contact ukpalmhn@gmail.com if you would like to be added to the Whatsapp Arabic translation group. In this newsletter … 1. Café Palestine 32: Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practising Resistance in Palestine 2. Makan Workshop ‘Palestinian Justice: Build your knowledge for IAW’ 3. Ethnic Cleansing Continues: report and ICAHD webinar  1. Cafe Palestine 32: Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine This Cafe will feature a conversation among the Palestinian clinicians who appear in the new book by Lara and Stephen Sheehi, Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge, 2022). Najla Asmar, Yoa’d Ghanadry-Hakim, Fathy Flefel and Wadad Bouchahine and Rana Nashashibi will be among those taking part, along with Lara and Stephen. The Café will be moderated by Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and Heba Zarifi. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85782607028?pwd=eHRTMU9MeHBXTlZHMXduS2NzNE91QT09 2. Makan Workshop ‘Palestinian Justice: Build your knowledge for Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW)’ Online Workshop Saturday 26th February 2022, 2pm-6.30pm (UK time) You need to book early if you want to take part in this highly recommended event (by Jan 24th). The workshop aims to prepare activists for Israeli Apartheid Week by: – Providing participants with the knowledge necessary to explain how Israel practices apartheid against the entirety of the Palestinian people. – Helping participants situate the Palestinian cause within the wider context of anti-racism and global anti-racist struggle. – Picking apart and addressing nuanced talking points presented in the mainstream discourse on Israeli Apartheid in order to effectively deal with difficult questions during Israeli Apartheid Week. Makan are primarily (but not exclusively) interested in working with students, university staff and other activists based in Britain and Ireland preparing for Israeli Apartheid Week. Makan also encourage applications from: – Individuals based abroad who are active and engaged with Palestine (student activists, trade unionists, academics, campaigners, journalists, etc.) and preparing for Israeli Apartheid Week. – Individuals involved with wider social justice struggles/human rights struggles looking to start/get more involved in Palestine. – Diaspora Palestinians and Palestinians based abroad or planning to study/work abroad.In order to apply, applicants need to register to be given access to the application. The deadline for applications is Monday 24th January 6pm (UK time): https://www.makan.org.uk/civicrm/?civiwp=CiviCRM&q=civicrm%2Fevent%2Fregister&id=114&reset=1 3. Ethnic Cleansing Continues: report and ICAHD webinar 18th January While any expression of opposition to apartheid Israel draws accusations of anti-Semitism, the ethnic cleansing continues. In Silwan, close to the heart of East Jerusalem, 58 Palestinian families in Silwan have cases opened against their properties under the ‘absentees properties’ law, while 84 more face demolition orders for building without permits. This week the courts have approved the expulsion of another Palestinian family from Jerusalem. The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions-UK has been campaigning on behalf of the Sumarin family for nearly two years because they are symbolic of what is happening to hundreds of Palestinian families that reside in East Jerusalem. ICAHD has revealed that during 2021 that 937 structures were demolished and 1,119 people displaced in the OPT with a further 12,658 people directly affected. ICAHD-UK and Lambeth and Wandsworth PSC are organising a webinar next Tuesday, 18th January, on ‘Israel’s deepening regime of Apartheid: What you can do’ with Jeff Halper and Linda Ramsden. Click the link for tickets.