Thursday, March 7 7:00 pm Church of Reconciliation 110 N. Elliott Rd Chapel Hill, NC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/315880448931249/ Featuring journalist and great granddaughter of Nakba survivors, Amena Ashkar and 89 yr old Nakba survivor, Mariam Fathalla whose ancient Palestinian village al Zeeb was leveled. Time stopped in 1948 for the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. Many of them and their descendants live in the same refugee camps created when the Zionist forces expelled them from their villages. Stateless and without the benefits of citizenship, these vulnerable Palestinian refugees have very few rights decades later in Lebanon, where they continue to be denied basic civil rights as well as their most fundamental right: The right to return to their homeland which Israel prevents. Sponsored by: The Coalition for Peace with Justice and AIME Hosted by: Salaam Shalom Support Group

Saturday, March 9 6:00 pm UNCC Fretwell 100 Charlotte, NC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2405998139444840/ 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 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. Mariam wants meet you. So does Amena el Ashkar, the great granddaughter of other Nakba survivors. They have a different message. They do not live in Palestine. They have no citizenship anywhere. They do not live under Israeli occupation. Israel does not allow them to visit their homes, much less live there. Amena never met an Israeli before the Nakba Tour, and Mariam not since 1948. They have a different perspective. Sponsored by the Palestinian American Community Center. Endorsed by PCO, Masjid Ashaheed

Sunday, March 10 4:00 pm Masjid Ash-Shaheed 400 West Sugar Creek Rd. Charlotte, NC 28213 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1093424864162311/ 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 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. Mariam wants meet you. So does Amena el Ashkar, the great granddaughter of other Nakba survivors. They have a different message. They do not live in Palestine. They have no citizenship anywhere. They do not live under Israeli occupation. Israel does not allow them to visit their homes, much less live there. Amena never met an Israeli before the Nakba Tour, and Mariam not since 1948. They have a different perspective. Sponsored by the Palestinian American Community Center. Endorsed by PCO, Masjid Ash-Shaheed

Tuesday, March 12 6:00 pm Mutual Aid Liberation Center 9 Gammon Avenue SE Atlanta, Georgia Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2299473006997222/ Project South is honored to host a stop of the North American Nakba Tour, which invites Palestinian survivors of the Nakba (or "catastrophe," the ethnic cleansing of Palestine that took place in 1948 with the creation of Israel) to speak to venues across the country. The Tour covered 26 venues in 2016 and 29 in 2017. The purpose of the Tour is to humanize Palestinian refugees across national boundaries and build popular support for the liberation of Palestine without restriction.