DOORS OPEN AT 7:30 Prolific British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom adds to his impressively diverse oeuvre with this harrowing account of two Afghan refugees’ passage to the West in search of a better life. The movie opens at a refugee camp in Peshawar, Pakistan, where Afghans…
Community Events
Category: Community Events
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AbdulKarim Al Makadma the author of “THE TEARS OF OLIVE TREES” will read passages from his book about growing up in Al Shati refugee camp in Gaza. The book is a multi-generational non-fiction memoir of a Palestinian family’s heroic struggle against poverty, violence and oppression….
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A presentation on how civil society works in Yemen and how community members utilize their talents and resources to enhance their lives. Speakers for the evening, Bushra Mutahar Al-Huthi and Mohammad Ali Al-Shami, are 2015 Leaders for Democracy fellowship alumni. They will share a brief…
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November is National Youth Homelessness Month. PLEASE NOTE: This screening will be at SUNY Upstate Medical University, Weiskotten Hall Room 103 766 Irving Ave. Syracuse, NY 13210
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Why is eliminating nuclear weapons so important? It’s one of the UN’s oldest goals, so critical that they’ve even created a day for it. Leading atomic scientists say the international supply of nuclear warheads put the world at risk for “catastrophic humanitarian and climatic consequences”….