Palestinian Human Rights Lawyer NOURA ERAKAT
From Occupation to Warfare:
How Israel Expanded Its Use of Force and Diminished Palestinian Resistance
with Special Guest Palestinian musician Yara Mubarak
Thursday, November 17, 2016, 7pm
First Congregational Church of Oakland
2501 Harrison Street (at 27th)
NOURA ERAKAT is a human rights attorney, activist, and Assistant Professor at George Mason University. While an undergrad at UC Berkeley, Noura helped launch the first university divestment campaign. Most recently, she released a multimedia documentary, Gaza In Context, that rehabilitates Israel’s wars on Gaza within a settler-colonial framework. She also produced the video, Black Palestinian Solidarity. Currently Noura is writing a book tentatively titled, Law as Politics in the Palestinian-Israel Conflict.
Benefit for MECA, wheelchair accessible