A message from Jessie Qumsiyeh for the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity & Sustainability (PIBS) & the Palestine Museum of Natural History (PMNH)
Dear Friends of PIBS/PMNH,
We are honored to invite you to our #60 monthly virtual meetup on this Saturday, July 5, 2025. The time and link are below. Please join if you can to get an update on the development of our expanded museum space and more.
Saturday, 5 July 2025 at 8 PM Palestine Summer Time / 7 PM CET / 6 PM GMT / 1 PM EDT / 10 AM PDT. The total duration will be two hours. In the first hour, we will review PIBS activities for the month of June 2025. In the second hour, Prof. Mazin will speak about the situation in Gaza and the West Bank. You are welcome to attend either hour or both.
The ZOOM link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6106562489
You are receiving this monthly invitation because you have fueled our missions generously with your volunteering time and financial donation. If this is the first time you are getting this message, you would be pleased to know that we have been holding this monthly virtual meetup on the first Saturday of each month since July 2020 at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. During the meetup, we updated our supporters of the activities at the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability for the previous month and the challenges we faced. All meetups were recorded and you can view the archive of past meetups’ slides and recordings, especially if you are located in a time zone that prohibited you from attending.
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh has also started the second hour of the meetup after October 7, 2023 to brief on the Gaza situation. Some sessions were recorded, and the recordings can be found in the same archive.
We sincerely thank the great turnout (over 40) last month, and for your questions and comments. Here are the slides and recording of the first hour of our last meetup (7 June 2025). Here is the recording of the second hour’s briefing on Gaza.
We also greatly appreciate your review and feedback on our 2024 Annual Report here that was released in February 2025 only in an on-line version.
Thank you as always and we look forward to seeing you online this Saturday, 5 July 2025!
Stay Human and keep hope alive,
Jessie, Mazin, Amal (on annual leave), Johanna, Mohammed A (on research leave)., Mohammad N., Reem, Saleh, Sara (welcome back from maternity leave), Victor, and Zena (on training leave)
Please also mark on your calendar for our future virtual meetup dates for the rest of 2025:
2 August 2025 (#61)
6 September 2025 (#62)
4 October 2025 (#63)
1 November 2025 (#64)
6 December 2025 (#65)
Information on Gaza:
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