75th Year of Palestinian Nakba
Event times:
8:00 -9:30 PM Palestine
7:00 - 8:30 PM France
6:00 - 7:30 PM Ireland and the UK
1:00 - 2:30 PM USA EDT
10:00 - 11:30 AM USA Pacific
The Palestine-Global Mental Health Network
invites you to
Palestinian Collective Memory:
75 Years of Nakba and Resistance
Join us for a narration of Palestinian history and a celebration of Palestinian steadfastness and resistance against Zionist settler colonialism
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Meeting ID: 831 6794 8768
Passcode: 679484
Participants in alphabetical order are:
Ms. Jeanine Hourani is a Palestinian organizer, writer and researcher. She is an ESRC-funded PhD candidate at the University of Exeter – her research explores the intersections of resistance and mental health for Palestinian women. Jeanine is also a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), Britain.
Ms. Asrar Kayal is a Palestinian researcher in community psychology, and an intern educational psychologist. Mainly interested in researching psychological well-being in colonial contexts; education and intra-community crimes among the colonized in particular. Provides educational- psychological services in the East-Jerusalem area via both the public and private sectors. Originally from Al-Birwa displaced village, raised in Kufr-Yasif village- both are located in the Galeeli area in the north of the Palestinian lands occupied in 1948, and currently living in Jerusalem.
Dr. Lama Khouri (she/her) is a psychoanalyst, a Clinical Supervisor at the Arab American Family Support Center, and a member of the founding Steering Committee of the Palestine-Global Mental Health Network (Pal-Global). Lama previously had a long career at the United Nations and since then has been a practitioner in mental health, an organizer of clinical services for students who were newly arrived Arab immigrants, and a scholar/ activist for Palestinian rights. Her work in support of the people of Palestine has appeared in diverse settings, from academic psychoanalytic journals to panel presentations in popular media. She is on the Advisory Council of the USA-Palestine Mental Health Network; a member of the Board of Directors of the Gaza Mental Health Foundation; and the Board of Section V of the American Psychological Association.
Ms Rozeen Marjieh is an Educational Psychologist, a member of the Palestine-Global Mental Health Network. She works with school staff on raising awareness of how the psychology of oppression shapes education, mental and social health of Palestinian children. Ms. Merjieh main interest is in developing psycho-educational programs that combine Western knowledge with Palestinian educational heritage. She also works, independently, in various schools across the country and in her clinic in Haifa. Ms. Marjieh is from Nazareth, and lives in Haifa.
Ms. Rawan Nemer graduated with honors from the University of Southern California with a BA double majoring in Middle East Studies and Political Science and a minor in Arabic. She is a museum translator and researcher living in Ramallah, where with her husband she helped write the collection of resources for organizers and those wishing to learn more about Palestine that is DecolonizePalestine.com. While in the US, she was president of her local Students for Justice in Palestine chapter, where she helped lead cross-coalition actions, and in Palestine she has worked with feminist organizations and other working groups.
Discussants
Dr. Lara Sheehi (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the George Washington University’s Professional Psychology Program where she is the founding faculty director of the Psychoanalysis and the Arab World Lab. Lara’s work takes up decolonial and anti-oppressive approaches to psychoanalysis, with a focus on liberation struggles in the Global South. She is co-author with Stephen Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge, 2022) which won the Middle East Monitor's 2022 Palestine Book Award for Best Academic Book. Lara is the President of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (APA, Division 39), co-editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality and co-editor of Counterspace in Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. Lara is also a contributing editor to the Psychosocial Foundation’s Parapraxis Magazine and on the advisory board for the USA-Palestine Mental Health Network and Psychoanalysis for Pride.
Dr. Stephen Sheehi: (اسطفان شيحا-he/him) is Sultan Qaboos Professor of Middle East Studies in the Asian and Middle East Studies Program (AMES) and the Director of Asian and Pacific Islander Studies Program (APIA) at William & Mary, Virginia USA. He is also the Director of the Decolonizing Humanities Project. Having published on psychoanalysis, Arab photography, and Islamophobia and racism, he is, most recently, co-author of Palestine: Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine with Lara Sheehi (Routledge, 2022), which has won the Palestine Book Award for Best 2022 Academic Book on Palestine; and Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories, co-authored with Salim Tamari and Issam Nassar (University of California Press, Fall, 2022). He and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian are co-editing a special issue of State Crime Journal, “Settler-Colonialism As State-Crime: Abolitionist Perspectives” (December 2022).
