Wednesday, 27 March
6:00 pm
Clifton Mosque
3668 Clifton AveX
Cincinnati, OH
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1252240264941085/

All are welcome!

We are honored to once again host the Nakba Tour in Cincinnati. This is an opportunity that no one should miss!

Hear Umm Akram (89) and Ameena (24) share their personal story of the most tragic event in Palestinian history. The program will begin with a short film followed by first hand accounts of of the Nakba from Umm Akram. Ameena will share her story of her life as a descendant of survivors awaiting for their right of return in the Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon, 71 years later.

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This is a community funded event.
Donations are greatly appreciated. Please bring your donation with you to event.
Donations are 501c3 tax deductible!
You are welcome to bring a dish to share- please, no pork
For more info: www.nakbatour.com
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On May 14, 1948, as Zionist leader David Ben Gurion was proclaiming a Jewish state in Palestine, his troops drove out the inhabitants of the ancient Palestinian town of al-Zeeb. 18-year-old Mariam Fathalla (Umm Akram) was one of them. She and her young husband fled to Lebanon. By year’s end the 4,000-year-old community had been leveled. More than half of all Palestinians were killed or expelled and more than half the cities, towns and villages disappeared, a crime that Palestinians call al-Nakba (the Catastrophe). Now 89 years old, Mariam has spent the last 71 years in crowded, makeshift refugee camps in Lebanon. She has raised three generations, all waiting to return to Palestine. She has seen five Israeli invasions of Lebanon, as well as the 1976 Tel al-Zaatar camp massacre that killed more than 2000 refugees there.

Amena ElAshkar, 24, is a Palestinian journalist and translator. the granddaughter and great granddaughter of Nakba survivors and has known no home other than a refugee camp.