The Embodiment of Protest: Hunger Strikes, Human Rights, and the Health of Palestinian Political Prisoners

The FXB Center for Health & Human Rights, the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative, Religion and Public Life at Harvard Divinity School and the Middle East Forum, Center for Middle Eastern Studies are pleased to present

Dr. Lina Qasem Hassan
Physician and Chairperson, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel

Sahar Francis
Director General, Addameer Prisoner’s Support and Human Rights Association

Moderator: Randa Wahbe, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University

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Hunger strikes have been used as means for non-violent resistance and protest over the past several decades by Palestinian political prisoners in Israel/Palestine.  The featured panelists will draw on their expertise and experience in the fields of health and human rights to explore various legal, medical, and human rights dimensions of hunger strikes being staged by Palestinian political prisoners.

Co-sponsors: The FXB Center for Health & Human Rights; the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative, Religion and Public Life at Harvard Divinity School; and the Middle East Forum, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Contact: danaiprado@hsph.harvard.edu