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Speakers:
Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch is the Executive Director of the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), a nonprofit humanitarian aid organization based in Berkeley, California, which supports children and families in Palestine, Iraq and Lebanon. He is a Palestinian refugee from Dheisheh Refugee Camp in the West Bank. He is the co-founder of the Ibdaa Cultural Center in Dheisheh. Zeiad is also a filmmaker, journalist and educator who has worked with Palestinian and international media and has participated in the production of several documentary films.
Yoav Elinevsky is a peace activist, a native of Jerusalem and a community college professor emeritus of mathematics from Massachusetts. He is the co-founder of FFIPP, an international network of faculty and students that organizes internships for college students in the occupied West Bank as well as delegations of faculty and students to the West Bank and Gaza since 2002.
Coleen Littlejohn, a Managua resident since 1980, is an international development economist. She has worked for a wide range of organizations such as Catholic Relief Services, the International Reconstruction Fund (FIR), Nicaragua Network, CAPRI (a local development NGO she founded in 1988), Save the Children Canada (Managua and Toronto) and the World Bank in Nicaragua, Liberia, West Africa and in Washington, DC.
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One week after Nicaragua argued at the International Court of Justice to defend
the Palestinian people from the genocide in Gaza, the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
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