{"id":8688,"date":"2011-01-18T09:30:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T17:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/ennounce\/?p=8688"},"modified":"2011-01-18T09:30:52","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T17:30:52","slug":"palestinian-american-scholar-speaks-on-campus-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/ennounce\/2011\/01\/18\/palestinian-american-scholar-speaks-on-campus-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian-American scholar speaks on campus Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nasser Abufarha, a Palestinian-American scholar and social  entrepreneur, will present a free lecture, &#8220;Insisting on Life: Martyrdom  and Fair Trade in Palestine,&#8221; on campus <strong>Wednesday, Jan. 19<\/strong>. A guest of the university\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Center for Peace and Justice, Abufarha will speak from <strong>7 to 8:30 p.m.<\/strong> in <strong>Hoover 105<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Abufarha is the founder of the Palestine Fair Trade Association and  Canaan Fair Trade, which is bringing Palestinian olive oil and other  traditional foods to mainstream American and European markets, while  also improving economic conditions for more than 1,700 farmers in the  West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>He is also the author of <em>The Making of a Human Bomb: An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance<\/em>, a book that explains how geographic separation of Palestinians and mimetic actions  to Israeli state repression will continue to be a source of violence  until Palestinians can experience actual rootedness in their land and  start to explore alternative exchanges between themselves and Israelis.<\/p>\n<p>Questions? Contact <strong>Melanie Newell <\/strong>at <a href=\"mailto:mnewell@georgefox.edu\">mnewell@georgefox.edu<\/a> or ext. 2686.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nasser Abufarha, a Palestinian-American scholar and social entrepreneur, will present a free lecture, &#8220;Insisting on Life: Martyrdom and Fair Trade in Palestine,&#8221; on campus Wednesday, Jan. 19. A guest of the university\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Center for Peace and Justice, Abufarha will speak from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Hoover 105. 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