Who Owns the Holy Land? Muslim, Jewish and Christian voices share their stories and vision for peace

Join Yousef Alreemawi, Nachshon Amir and Suzan Wahhab in a moderated discussion and Q&A on the historical and contemporary role of religion in the struggle for a free Palestine.

The forum is being co-hosted by Free Palestine Melbourne and the Palestine Israel Ecumenical Network (PIEN) with funding from the Community and Cohesion Support Program.

Yousef Alreemawi is a Palestinian musician, scholar and linguist who founded ASPIRE, an NGO that has settled more than 250 Palestinian refugees from Iraq and Syria in Australia since 2007. He is the founder and director of the Averroes Centre for Arab Culture and presenter of the Understanding Palestine series of public lectures on the history of the Palestinian national movement.

Nachshon Amir is a former Israeli army combat officer who was raised in a religious nationalist family but has been an outspoken advocate and active member of Free Palestine Melbourne for the past four years.

Suzan Wahhab is the President of Palestinian Christians and Australia who has worked on behalf of Palestinian refugees and survivors of the Gaza genocide for the past sixteen months. Her relatives were among the founders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine following their expulsion from Jaffa and Ramleh in 1948.

The forum will be moderated by PIEN Project Officer and FPM activist Michael Shaik, who was one of the founding members of the FREE GAZA movement to break Israel’s maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip and has commented on Israeli-Palestinian affairs for The Age, The Australian, The Canberra Times, ABC Radio National and SBS television and radio.