Wednesday, April 10
7:00 pm
Noyes 163
University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/426799901225208/

Join us for our key-note event of Israeli Apartheid Week with the North America Nakba Tour! Nakba means “Catastrophe” in Arabic and refers to the 1948 ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians in order to create the state of Israel. Mariam Fathalla, 89 years old, is a survivor of the Nakba and will be sharing with us her personal narrative as an 18 year old during the Nakba. 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. She will be translating for Mariam Fathalla.