Rediscovering Palestine - Upcoming Events

Greenbelt Festival - "Freedom Bound"

27^th to 30^th August 2004 ( August Bank Holiday Weekend)

Cheltenham Racecourse

Booking information www.greenbelt.org.uk

‘Rediscovering Palestine’ exhibition will highlight the plight of Palestinian people, in their cultural and religious diversity, whose freedom continues to be systematically eroded, at an alarming rate and with dire consequences.

Particular attention will be drawn to the 'Separation Wall', it's size, nature, human rights' contraventions, and implications.

High profile speakers, panels and films – details to be confirmed - to inform and create dialogue about the humanitarian situation; underlying theological issues, including both those that affect opinion and those that can be used to effect change; and the ever- present need for intervention by the
International Community.

Usual range of resource material and information available in the venue.

(28^th August) Saturday 10.00 12.00: Fathom Film Session - 'Opposing the Occupation on the Ground' 2003- Israeli Coalition against House Demolition; 'A Caged Bird's Song' -2003, Sobhi Zobaida for Birzeit University Right to Education Committee

(28^th August) Saturday 14.00 15.00: Istabraq bar Jonathan Kuttab
'Whose Holy Land? God's, Ours or Yours?' The liberation theology of a Christian Palestinian lawyer tackling the difficult issue of conflicting 'theological' claims to the land that is now Israel and the Occupied Territories.

(28^th August) Saturday 18.00 21.00: Pulse (RP) Presentation and Q/A featuring Jonathan Kuttab and Stephen Sizer

(29^th August) Sunday 14.00 15.00: Sovereign Lounge Stephen Sizer
'Christian Zionism: the new heresy that sways America. (And keeps Sharon in power in Israel)'. After years of research into the doctrines of Christian Zionism - the theology that supports a political regime based on apartheid and discrimination - the speaker's conclusion is that it is a heresy. Yet millions of people in the US express their support for it. How dangerous is it, given the US role in the Middle East?'

(30^th August) Monday 14.00 15.00: Istabraq bar Jonathan Kuttab
'The Wall Must Fall - Apartheid in Palestine' 'A first hand account of how the Israeli 'barrier' across Palestinian land is having a devastating effect on all aspects of life; dividing families; separating people from their land and livelihoods; denying them access to education, medical care and places of worship and depriving them of even their most basic rights to food and water

click here for a look at last year's festival