A White Lie: Women’s Voices from Gaza Series

Book launch on International Women’s Day (IWD):

A White Lie: Women’s Voices from Gaza Series

Speaker: Dr. Ghada Ageel, Department of Political Science, University of Alberta

When: Monday March 8 2021, 12 noon-1:00 PM (Edmonton Time)
Where: Online Zoom Webinar. For registration please CLICK HERE.

The Women’s Voices from Gaza Series honours women’s unique and underrepresented perspectives on the social, material, and political realities of Palestinian life. In the first volume in this series, Madeeha Hafez Albatta chronicles her life in Gaza and beyond. Among her remarkable achievements was establishing some of the first schools for refugee children in Gaza.

Palestinian refugees in Gaza have lived in camps for five generations, experiencing hardship and uncertainty. In the absence of official histories, oral narratives handed down from generation to generation. These narratives maintain traditions, keep alive names of destroyed villages, and record stories of the fight for dignity and freedom.