Cork Palestine Awareness Week

cork | anti-war / imperialism | event notice Thursday October 16, 2003 21:45 by Fintan Lane - IAWM and Cork Anti-War Campaign

CORK PALESTINE AWARENESS WEEK

As part of the nation-wide Palestine Awareness Week, the Cork branch of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign is running a series of events, starting on Sunday, 19 October, and continuing through Thursday, 23 October. Some events are in the city centre (in the Triskel Centre or in Tig Fili,on MacCurtain Street) and some are on the UCC campus.

ALL EVENTS ARE OPEN TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.

Sunday, 19 October
5:00 pm, Triskel Arts Centre, city centre, �The Black Panthers (in Israel)Speak�. A documentary film on the early 1970s uprising of the Mizrahim (Jews from Arab Countries) against discrimination from the Ashkenazi (European) elite in Israel.(Triskel Box Office phone: 021 427 2263)Monday, 20 October
1:00 � 2:00 pm, Room 201, O'Rahilly Building, UCC: lecture by Zoughbi Zoughbi, Director of the Palestinian Conflict Resolution Centre in Bethlehem
8:00-10:00 pm, Tig Fili, MacCurtain Street, city centre: lecture and discussion, led by Zoughbi Zoughbi Tuesday, 21 October
1:00 � 2:00 pm, Room 201, O'Rahilly Building, UCC: �Jenin, Jenin�, documentary on the events of April 2002, directed by the Palestinian actor and director, Mohammed Bakri. The film is banned in Israel; its producer, Iyad Samudi,was killed by the Israeli army within weeks of making the film.
8:00 -10:00 pm, Tig Fili, MacCurtain Street, city centre: poetry reading and discussion, led by Ibrahim Nasrallah, a Palestinian poet.

Wednesday, 22 October
1:00 � 2:00 pm, Room 201, O'Rahilly Building, UCC: poetry reading by Ibrahim Nasrallah, a Palestinian poet.

8:00-10:00 pm, Tig Fili, MacCurtain Street, city centre: �On the need to boycott Israel�, lecture and discussion, led by Tanya Reinhart, a professor in Tel Aviv University.

Thursday, 23 October
1:00 � 2:00 pm, Room 201, O'Rahilly Building, UCC: �Why an academic boycott of Israel is needed�, a lecture by Tanya Reinhart,a professor in Tel Aviv University.