Gaza is still there. The blockades and bombings and deprivations are still there. The wounds and scars - physical, psychological, and structural - are still there. Seventy-five percent of Gazans are less than 25 years old. What is their future? What is our responsibility?
Invitation to Online Film Salon
Voices from the Holy Land, in conjunction with USA Palestine Mental Health Network and Palestine-Global Mental Health Network, invites you to our twenty-first monthly Online Film Salon to be held on Sunday, January 9, 2022 at 3 pm ET/12 noon Pacific Time/10pm Palestine Time. Participants will discuss the documentary film Gaza: Still Alive. Please watch this film for free at your convenience and then join us for the online Q&A discussion.
Dr. Samah Jabr – Psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Head of the Mental Health Unit of the Palestinian Ministry of Health
Harry Fear – Independent journalist and filmmaker
Dr. Elizabeth Berger (moderator) – Child Psychiatrist, founding/steering committee member of the USA Palestine Mental Health Network
You must register to participate.
How this will work:
1 - Register here for the Voices from the Holy Land Online Film Salon:
http://tinyurl.com/VFHLJanuary2022
2 – Once you register, you will get a confirmation email from Zoom with a link to the meeting and a link with to watch the film. (Save this confirmation letter as the meeting link is unique to your email and you must have this to participate.)
3 - Watch the film at your convenience before the event. Then join us with your thoughts and questions for our speakers at the Q&A Discussion on January 9, 2022 at 3 pm ET/ 12 noon PT
About Gaza: Still Alive
When you think of Gaza, you may think of war and destroyed buildings, of economic hardships, the strangling siege, the high unemployment rate, the poverty and deprivation—but less often do we see the deprivation that is the invisible, unmet needs for psychological support for a population so in need of it. “Gaza: Still Alive” focuses on difficult questions. What is the effect on a Palestinian child’s mental health when they learn that they’re living in an open-air prison, unlike most children in the world? How has a 15-year siege and its wars impacted Gazans as individuals? How has it affected their mental health and life’s course? And what does the unceasing stress and trauma bode for Palestinians’ future as a society, and for humankind’s collective future?
Watch the Trailer: tinyurl.com/StillAliveTrailer
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Download the event flyer here. (Download the jpg version here)
Download information about the Panelists and moderator here. (Download the jpg version here)
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