Palestine Summer Encounter Photos

PSErs learn about the religion of Islam, obviously quite central to the culture here, from respected Islamic scholar, Abdul Rahman Abbad.

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Dahoud Nasser, land owner of the Tent of Nations, explains to the PSErs his family's decades-long legal battle to keep their land with the Israeli settlements encroaching from every direction.

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Nidal Abu Zuluf, co-author of the Kairos Palestine document, speaks with the PSErs about the movement to appeal to the Christian church around the world to support justice in Palestine.

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Participants take a tour of the Wall in Bethlehem; here it surrounds a family's house on three sides.

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Participants enjoyed Palestinian traditional folk music--oud and tableh--while having dinner around a campfire at the Tent of Nations.

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The table at "Our Place." http://www.palestinesummer.org/node/375

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Fields and a church in the “Closed Paradise” of Wadi Artas, south of Bethlehem, where the PSErs went for a hike together.

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Dr. Mazen Qumsiyeh presents to the group on the facts of Occupation and the history and current movement of Palestinian nonviolent resistance.

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A number of participants who decided to attend a nonviolent demonstration in a village near Bethlehem meet with the coordinator of the Popular Committee beforehand to understand the strategy of the nonviolent resistance leaders.

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A participant learns how a worker at a Nablus olive oil soap factory wraps the renowned product.

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