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My Palestine Talks, 2023–2024
Recorded talks of author Ramsey Hanhan, on his Palestinian experience and his book Fugitive Dreams.
I am delighted to share with you a dozen of my talks on Palestine from the last couple of years. The talks cover a multitude of topics, including childhood in Palestine, the Israeli occupation, the Nakba, the Wall, Christianity, free speech, organizing, and the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
For the last ten months, my congressman has been responding to my daily emails with the same canned response. His statement opens with: “As you know [sic], on October 7, Hamas committed horrifying acts of terrorism against Israeli civilians. Israel responded with retaliatory attacks in the Gaza Strip.”
Three-quarters of the talks below were recorded in the year before October 7, 2023, including one just a few days prior. Unlike our clueless congressman, you will notice that I say the same things before Oct. 7 as after.
Enjoy watching and please feel free to share.
How to resist injustice with love
West Hill United Church, Ontario, Canada
4/14/2024, 30 min + Q&A
Ramsey’s dream is to spare his daughter and her generation of Israeli and Palestinian children the violence he experienced as a child. Yet, under the dark shadow of a genocide in Gaza, how can we effectively confront violence without contaminating ourselves with its destructive power?
What It Means To Be Palestinian: One Palestinian’s Dream
The Anderson Forum for Progressive Theology, Anderson, SC
3/17/2024, 40 min. + Q&A
Ramsey Hanhan talks about the humanity and suffering of the Palestinian people and how he struggled to answer his five-year old daughter’s question: “Why can’t we go past the wall around Jerusalem?”
Liberating the Narrative
ERA symposium on ‘Palestine and the Information War,’ Lahore, Pakistan
12/9/2023, 33 min.
How the words we use shape our narrative, free speech, and the censorship of Palestinian voices.
Reflections of Sumoud in Fugitive Dreams
26th Conference on “Land, People and Culture,” Dar al-Kalima University, Bethlehem, Palestine
10/4/2023, 17 min.
Just days before Oct. 7, I prophetically discuss Palestinian resistance through Sumoud, continuing to exist on our land despite all the obstacles Israel hurls in our way. What is resistance for a Palestinian in exile?
The Ray Hanania Radio Show
8/2/2023, 26 min.
Fugitive Dreams, the book, the story, the writing, and its context among Arab American literature.
The Palestine Museum US
Madafeh with Christa Bruhn and Faisal Saleh, Palestine Museum US, CT
6/25/2023, 82 min.
Victimhood and healing from childhood trauma; the Nakba and the changing landscape; home for an immigrant; liberation.
https://www.facebook.com/PalestineMuseum.US/videos/3531087533879086
A Palestinian Reflects on Life in Ramallah and Life in Ann Arbor
Prof. Ron Stockton, Stockton After Class podcast
4/8/2023, 62 min.
Childhood in Palestine, child abuse under occupation, and activism in Palestine and the United States.
Nader Abed’s Homeland vodcast
3/16/2023, 93 min.
Empowerment and the rejection of victimhood, peace and humanity, and what the individual activist can do to help.
The Jerusalem Fund, Washington, DC
Book Talk and Interview with Said Arikat
2/21/2023, 20 min. + Q&A
The immigrant experience in America as a Palestinian, especially in the context of US Aid to Israel. The meaning of resistance.
https://www.youtube.com/live/HrKhAWfxcQU?si=kIJo8lb0WPaO0_4S
Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center, Palestine
Book conversation with Katherine Akbar
2/7/2023, 52 min.
Palestine’s Christians and their struggle, and the Biblical allusions in Fugitive Dreams.
The Arab Center DC
Book Conversation with Dr. Khalil Jahshan
1/17/2023, 34 min.
Childhood during the First Intifada and US policy towards Palestine, including the failed Oslo “Peace Process” and the Wall.
Jerusalem Unplugged podcast with Dr. Roberto Mazza
11/15/2022, 53 min.
A thorough delve into the narrative of Fugitive Dreams and its vision for peace.
