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#OpenGaza ***CANCELLATION*** Allston, MA

  • (private residence) 30 Royal Street Allston, MA, 02134 United States (map)

EVENT CANCELLED (Trauma and Hope — a Health and Human Rights "coffee")

 

With apologies, this informal gathering has had to be cancelled to afford some needed rest & repair for our planned speakers.

 
 for questions - wslaughtermd@outlook.com

Dr. Yasser Abu-Jamei MD, MSc, a psychiatrist, is the Executive Director of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme.  He was born in 1974 in Saudi Arabia and has lived in Gaza-Palestine since 2000. In 2002 he joined Gaza Community Mental Health Programme as a student in the High Diploma Programme in Community Mental Health. From June 2004 to March 2009, he worked for the Training & Research Department as a Psychiatrist-Clinical Supervisor and from March 2009 he worked as the Director of the Training and Research Department. In January 2014, he became the Executive Director of the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, and brings a special interest in neuropsychiatry, child and adolescents psychiatry, and advocacy and policy change.  Last year on July 21, 2014 during the bombing of Gaza, twenty-eight members of Dr. Yasser’s extended family were breaking their Ramadan fast with their iftar dinner when their home was hit by an Israeli missile.  All were killed including the nineteen children and three pregnant women.

Ran Goldstein is Executive Director of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel. Formerly Head of Communication of ICRC Delegation to Israel and the Occupied Territories, Senior Strategy and Communications Consultant to various Israeli Civil Society Organizations. Prior to this he worked as a journalist for a number of leading Israeli media outlets. Founder and board member of a newly established Israeli NGO, “Akevot,” Institute for Israeli–Palestinian conflict research, Goldstein led numerous campaigns on human rights issues in Israel focused on most vulnerable population that live in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel.