Tuesday, April 16
6:00 pm
Avila University – Thornhill Gallery
11901 Wornall Road
Kansas City, MO
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The 89-year-old Mariam Fathalla and 24-year-old Amena EAshkar share their stories as two stateless Palestinians living in a refugee camp.

On May 14, 1948, troops drove out the inhabitants of the ancient Palestinian town of al-Zeeb as part of what is now called al-Nakba (the Catastrophe.) Then 18-year-old Mariam Fathalla and her young husband fled to Lebanon. Now 89 years old, Mariam (Umm Akram) has raised three generations within the confines of a refugee camp.

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