Expressions of Nakba Visual Arts Exhibit

Exhibit runs November 19 - December 8, 2008 at Boston College

Opening Reception: Wednesday Nov 19,  5.30pm - 8pm
Welcoming note and speaker Susan Akram (bio below): 6pm
Live Music and Hors-d'œuvre

Location: 
Boston College,  Student Art Gallery at the Bapst Art Library on Main Campus at Chestnut Hill.  See Chestnut Hill campus map

Expressions of Nakba is a project of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.
Co-presented by Arab Student Association, Art Club, Fine Arts Department, the Global Justice Project and Tawassul. See the online gallery.

At this event, students from the course-trip Building a Just Peace in Israel/ Palestine (more info below) will fundraise towards their upcoming trip. 

About speaker Susan Akram

• Associate Professor, Boston University School of Law. 
  Immigration & Comparative Refugee Law. 
  Supervision of students handling immigration, refugee and other civil cases in the BU Civil Litigation Program. 
  
  
• Founding director, Immigration Project at the public interest law firm of Public Counsel in Los Angeles, and of the Political Asylum/Immigration Representation Project in Boston. 
  
  
• Interim director of the Joint Voluntary Agency or resettlement of Iraqi refugees in refugee camps in Saudi Arabia after the Gulf War. 
  
  
• Representing refugees worldwide since 1983. 
  
  
• Authored articles on U.S. immigration law and policy; refugee law and policy; human rights and the Middle East and on recommendations for durable solutions for Palestinian refugees.

Building a Just Peace in Israel/Palestine course trip

Students participating in the trip will have just completed a seminar course that analyzes the situation from a human rights perspective, reviews some of the Israeli and Palestinian history, examines the contested theological claims to the land, and discusses conflict resolving strategies. 

During their stay, students will be meeting with Palestinian and Israeli NGOs, visiting a refugee camp in the Bethlehem area, exploring religious sites, seeing the Separation Wall, and traveling to Jenin, Hebron, and Qalqilya. Upon their return, students will individually implement projects that will aim at bringing awareness of various issues rarely known to people here in the US.