{"id":199415,"date":"2023-11-30T16:49:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T21:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=199415"},"modified":"2023-11-30T16:49:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T21:49:01","slug":"authors-to-host-lecture-in-castlegar-on-the-israel-palestine-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/authors-to-host-lecture-in-castlegar-on-the-israel-palestine-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Authors to host lecture in Castlegar on the Israel-Palestine conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Israel-Hamas war continues to claim lives in the Middle East and divide cultures across the world and a local event is looking to discuss the conflict. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Raja Khouri and Jeffrey Wilkinson, authors of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/thewallbetween.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Wall Between<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a book about the misunderstandings and distrust between the Jewish and Palestinian communities, are hosting a lecture at the Brilliant Cultural Centre in Castlegar on Dec. 5.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Khouri, an Arab-Canadian, and Wilkinson, an American Jew, co-wrote <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Wall Between<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which was published on Oct.3<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0in an effort to humanize and acknowledge the other side.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Khouri <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is the CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khouriconversations.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Khouri Conversations<\/a>, a human rights and inclusion consultant, the founding president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadianarabinstitute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadian Arab Institute<\/a>. Wilkinson<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> holds a doctorate in education from the University of Toronto and works actively in the Jewish community and beyond on issues relating to trauma and the Israel\/Palestine struggle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They joined CJLY\u2019s Kim Bater and Scott Onyschak along with Jennie Baron, chair for Selkirk College\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/selkirk.ca\/why-selkirk\/our-places\/mir-centre-peace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mir Centre for Peace<\/a>, to discuss the Israel-Hamas war, the history of the conflict and how trauma has fueled misunderstanding between Israel and Palestine for decades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Listen to the story on CJLY below:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>With files from Kim Bater<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Israel-Hamas war continues to claim lives in the Middle East and divide cultures across the world and a local event is looking to discuss the conflict. Raja Khouri and Jeffrey Wilkinson, authors of The Wall Between, a book about the misunderstandings and distrust between the Jewish and Palestinian communities, are hosting a lecture at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":199419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[219,221],"tags":[33622,31496,7995,33619,33623,7994,33620,33621],"radio":[1420],"origine":[280,2165,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199415"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199548,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199415\/revisions\/199548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199415"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=199415"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=199415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}