[van-announce] Chronicles of a Refugee: Thursday March 4th at UBC

[Mike Krebs]

Chronicles of a Refugee
By Adam Shapiro

Thursday, March 4, 6-9 PM
ANGU 295 @ UBC, 2053 MAIN MALL
Organized by SPHR UBC as part of Israeli Apartheid Week

For directions and location go to
http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?show=y,n,n,n,n,y&bldg2Search=n&locat1=023

Adam Shapiro is a documentary filmmaker, human rights activist and
Palestinian rights activist. His latest film is a documentary series
on Palestinian refugees all over the world called “Chronicles of a
Refugee,” which was broadcast on Al-Jazeera Documentary Channel in May
2009. Adam and a colleague are working in an independent effort to
help find durable solutions for the Palestinian refugees of Iraq, who
are currently trapped in refugee camps on the border of Iraq and
Syria. He served as Country Director in Afghanistan from 2005-2006 for
the internationally renowned human rights organization Global Rights.

Adam holds a MA in Politics from New York University and a MA in Arab
Studies from Georgetown University. In Palestine, Adam was a
co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement and lived and
worked in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for three years.

He will show episode 5 "The Talk of Return" of the series, which
focuses on the issue of return and the efforts that palestinians have
made over the years at various levels to achieve return (PLO, civil
society, villages, individuals).

You can see a preview of the whole series at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPyXTW3bjyI

More information about the documentary can be found on:
http://www.chroniclesofarefugee.org/

For more info:
sphr.ubc at gmail.com or call SPHR's president Omar Chaaban at 778-997-6548

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