Belfast Film Screening: Little Town of Bethlehem

antrim | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Sunday December 12, 2010 16:58 by QUB PSS - QUB Palestine Solidarity Society

First film screening of 'Little Town of Bethlehem' in the North being shown in Queen's University Belfast.

Sami Awad is a Palestinian Christian whose grandfather was killed in Jerusalem in 1948. Today, he is the executive director of Holy Land Trust, a nonprofit organization that promotes Palestinian independence through peaceful means. Yonatan Shapira is an Israeli Jew whose grandparents were Zionist settlers who witnessed the birth of Israel. Today, he is an outspoken advocate for the nonviole...nce movement, both in his homeland and abroad. Ahmad Al'Azzah is a Palestinian Muslim who has lived his entire life in the Azzah refugee camp in Bethlehem. Today, Ahmad heads the nonviolence program at Holy Land Trust, where he trains others in the methods of peaceful activism.

Queens University Belfast Palestine Solidarity Society invites you to watch this incredible documentary style film. It was filmed on location in the West Bank, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem, Little Town of Bethlehem brings awareness to a growing nonviolence movement in the Middle East that seldom makes international headlines.

Founder and President of the QUB - Palestine Solidarity Society Gary Spedding invites you to watch the film and then have a brief 15 minute lecture on none violence struggle in the West Bank of Palestine and the Gaza strip. Afterwards there will be 20 minutes for Questions and Answers!

For more information call: 07747817595

Caption: Little Town of Bethlehem Trailer