EVENTS | PALESTINE | SOUTH CAROLINA
What It Means To Be Palestinian: One Palestinian’s Dream
Event: March 17, 2024, at the Anderson Forum for Progressive Theology, Anderson, South Carolina, USA. Ramsey Hanhan shares his fifty-year journey of faith and hope and yearning for justice and freedom for his fellow Palestinians.
Sunday, March 17, 2024
3:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)
“I dream of a Jerusalem with no borders, a Palestine without Walls!”
— Ramsey Hanhan, Fugitive Dreams
Watch recorded video from event here:
This will be a hybrid in-person / Zoom event:
Meet Hanhan at
North Anderson Community Church, Presbyterian
4200 Liberty Highway, Anderson, SC
Zoom (Register here)
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VnJ46TcwRKG5pu8szDEQZw
Jerusalem, the city of peace. Since our Sunday school lessons, we have formed biblical images of the city and surrounding lands. Perhaps we long to visit it and walk in the very footsteps of Jesus, the Prince of Peace.
Author Ramsey Hanhan was born in Jerusalem, but “on the wrong side of the border.” Raised a Christian in Ramallah before coming to America, Ramsey is a Palestinian, a people about whom Americans know little. What little we do know comes from the news, which has lately brought us images and statistics of horrific carnage in Gaza, with thousands of people killed within an area a fifth that of Anderson County.
The story of the Palestinian people did not begin on that fateful day marking the latest bout of violence, October 7, 2023, but centuries ago.
Who are the Palestinians? What does it mean to be a Palestinian? What is it like for them to chart their way through life in the Holy Land? How do we make sense of the violence gripping the region?
Ramsey Hanhan has a dream of peace for the land of his birth and its children. Drawing from his life experience, he comes to share his fifty-year journey of faith and hope and yearning for justice and freedom for his fellow Palestinians. As a Palestinian American, Ramsey offers a perspective tragically underrepresented in America. As a Palestinian Christian whose faith is intuitively grounded in the hills of his childhood home, he finds his understanding at odds with that of a politicized American Christianity that confuses “the people of Israel” with modern-day Israel.
Ramsey’s dream is to spare his daughter and her generation of Israeli and Palestinian children the violence he experienced as a child. Our event today is an invitation to engage in a conversation about what each of us can do to help bring a just and lasting peace to Palestine.
Biography
Ramsey Hanhan is the Palestinian American author of Fugitive Dreams, a literary exploration of the Palestinian experience and his immigrant journey in America. Several short stories and poems of his are forthcoming, and he currently blogs on Medium. He was formerly a physics professor noted for his computer models that describe and predict complexity in nature. Hanhan holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and resides in Maryland. https://ramseyhanhan.org/
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Fugitive Dreams is one of the few books that would make a compelling read even for those of us very familiar with the question of Palestine.” — Mondoweiss
With love,
Ramsey Hanhan
Author, Fugitive Dreams
