Just back from Egypt!  Phyllis Bennis to Speak in Cambridge May 16!

Tunisia. Egypt. Bahrain. Yemen. Libya. Syria. For the past four months dramatic and often hopeful events have been sweeping through North Africa and the Middle East.

What are the various forces operating within each country?

What are the policies and goals of the United States amidst all these uprisings?

What is the implication of these developments for Israel and the Palestinians?

And what are the implications for our peace and justice movement?

Come to a presentation, discussion and slide show on these historic events with Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies and Ashraf Elkern of the Islamic Society of Greater Worcester.

Monday, May 16, 2011, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Cambridge Friends Meeting Center • 5 Longfellow Place • off Brattle St. near Harvard Sq T • Cambridge

Phyllis Bennis is director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. She is also a fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. She has been a writer, analyst, and activist on Middle East and UN issues for many years. In 2001 she helped found and remains on the steering committee of the U.S. Campaign to End Israeli Occupation. She works closely with the United for Peace and Justice anti-war coalition, co-chairs the UN-based International Coordinating Network on Palestine, and since 2002 has played an active role in the growing global peace movement. She continues to serve as an adviser to several top UN officials on Middle East and UN democratization issues.

Bennis is author or co-author of Ending the US War in Afghanistan: A Primer, Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer, and Calling the Shots: How Washington Dominates Today’s United Nations, among other books.   She authors a regular online newsletter; go here to subscribe.

Ashraf Elkerm is an Egyptian-born physician who has practiced in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United States.  He has served on the Board of Trustees of the Islamic Society of Greater Worcester since 2000 and is a past President.

“I am considered a brain washed American in Egypt and a naturalized alien in America,” says Elkerm.

Sponsored by United for Justice with Peace

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