Dr.Izzeldin Abuelaish, an internationally recognized medical researcher, human rights and peace activist, will be in San Antonio to present and discuss his research on “Hatred as a Contagious and Destructive Disease.”
PRESENTATION DATES, TIMES, AND LOCATIONS, FEBRUARY 17-20,
2025 See links to the livestreamed events below.
You are invited to prepare by reading his publications on the UIW Libguide. If you plan to bring a whole class, please fill out this form https://forms.office.com/r/xnBpmBepT5
Information to make a donation is at the bottom.
If you wish to park on the UIW campus during the day, before 5 pm, then please write to parking@uiwtx.edu and give the make, model, color, and license plate of your vehicle. They will put you in the system for the day. After 5 pm, you do not need to do this.
Feb. 17, Monday
9 am to 10:15 am, University of the Incarnate Word Bonilla Science Hall 129. Dr. Abuelaish on "Hate as a contagious and destructive disease" with discussion. WRITE kirk@uiwtx.edu if you wish to bring a class because seats are limited.
Gatherings on Feb. 17, 10:30 am to 9 pm and Feb.
18, 9 am to 5 pm will be in the University of the Incarnate Word Student
Engagement Center Ballroom and can be VIEWED ONLINE BY CLICKING here.
Dr. Abuelaish on "Hate as a
contagious and destructive disease" with discussion
10:30 to 11:15 am
12:00 – 1:15 pm
1:30- 2:45 pm
3 – 4:15 pm
5:45 pm. Buffet Benefit Dinner. Lift a
Daughter--for Life. Help build a San Antonio Scholarship for a
Middle Eastern Woman through the Daughters for Life Foundation which was
founded by Dr. Abuelaish.
Registration required. https://uiw.givepulse.com/event/550319
Open and free parking on the UIW campus west of the UIW Student
Engagement Center.
7:00 PM Doctors’ Round Table: Hate as a Dis-Ease
Can be VIEWED ONLINE BY CLICKING here.
Student Engagement Center Ballroom, University of the
Incarnate Word.
Free and open to the public. No registration required.
Optional dinner buffet prior to Doctors’ Round Table. See
above details at 5:45 PM.
- Dr. A.S. Junda Woo, Round Table Facilitator, Medical Director/Public Health
- Dr.
Izzeldin Abuelaish, Visiting Canadian-Palestinian Doctor; Professor,
Global Health/Clinical Public Health, University of Toronto; Author, I
Shall Not Hate
- Dr.
Adam Ratner, Chair, The Patient Institute; Professor, UIW School of
Osteopathic Medicine
- Dr.
Cathy Woodward, VP, Health Advisory Board of HEAL Palestine
- Dr.
Kenneth Kemp, MD, Senior Pastor, Antioch Missionary Baptist Church
- Dr.
Matthew Dasco, Director, UT Health Center for Medical Humanities and
Ethics; Active Member, Consortium of Universities for Global Health
- Dr. Moshtagh Farokhi, UT Health Dentistry, Dental Director at SA Refugee Health Clinic
All Feb. 18, Tuesday presentations 9 am to 4:15 pm are in the UIW Student Engagement Center Ballroom. During the day we will not have livestream, but we recommend seeing https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=izzeldin+abuelaish The evening presentation will be livestreamed.
"Hate as a contagious and destructive disease" with discussion
9 to 10:15 am
10:30 to 11:15 am
12:00 – 1:15 pm
1:30- 2:45 pm
3 – 4:15 pm
Can be VIEWED ONLINE BY CLICKING here.
SOLD OUT. We are no longer accepting registrations for Feb. 18, 6:30 to 8:30 pm CHRISTUS Heritage Hall at the Village at Incarnate Word. Lift a Daughter--for Life. Delicious Middle Eastern food, music. Dr. Abuelaish speaking. Learn of Our Scholars – Daughters for Life Foundation Help build a San Antonio Scholarship for a Middle Eastern Woman through the Daughters for Life Foundation which was founded by Dr. Abuelaish.
Naomi Shihab Nye,
Palestinian American poet and author who was the Poetry Foundation's Young
People's Poet Laureate from 2019-2022, will share a few poems.
Young voices speak for a more peaceful world: Randa Elaydi
from Gaza: Hajar Moshishadri, Japanese Iranian American; Beni Resendiz, Israeli
American: Teo Reyes, Central American background: Jacky Zavala Aguila from Mexico.
Donations welcome. See information at the bottom.
At the gathering the The Twig Bookstore will have Dr. Abuelaish's book, I Shall Not Hate and some of Naomi Shihab Nye's books.
Feb. 19, Wednesday. Presentations are being schedul through the Peace Center at Northwest Vista College.
Feb. 19, 5:30 – 7:30 pm Executive Book Review, "I Shall Not Hate" by Dr. Abuelaish, at CHRISTUS Heritage Hall at the Village at Incarnate Word. Please register https://executivebookreview.com/ Then you can come or watch the livestream.
Presentations at Texas Lutheran University, 11 am to 3 pm. For details, contact Dr. Amanda Jill Kaminski akaminski@tlu.edu
Contact for interviews with Dr. Abuelaish or for information: Sister Martha Ann Kirk kirk@uiwtx.edu 210-883-5934
Dr. Abuelaish's book, I Shall Not Hate is
available at The Twig Bookstore at the
Pearl.
BACKGROUND
INFORMATION
Dr.
Izzeldin Abuelaish, an internationally recognized medical researcher, human
rights and peace activist, will be in San Antonio to present and discuss his
research on “Hatred as a Contagious and Destructive Disease.” The San Antonio
delegation to the World
Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates were inspired by him in Monterrey, Mexico, in
September.
A life-long
cultural bridge-builder born and raised in Gaza, he was one of the first
Palestinian doctors to work in both Israeli and Palestinian hospitals. He believes
that health care providers can be
human equalizers, socializers, harmonizers and stabilizers.
In the Gaza
war of 2009, three of his teen-aged daughters and his niece were killed. He has
transformed this tragedy into an even stronger commitment to heal hatred and
revenge with peace and forgiveness. Abuelaish’s book, “I Shall not Hate: A
Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity,” has been
translated into 23 languages and made into a film. He holds twenty
honorary doctorates and has been repeatedly nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Elie
Wiesel, Nobel Peace Laureate, wrote of Dr. Abuelaish book, I Shall Not
Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity, "This
story is a necessary lesson against hatred and revenge."
Turning trauma into opportunity, Dr. Abuelaish started Daughters
for Life Foundation in their memory. The foundation gives scholarships
to young Middle Eastern women. He is dedicated to healing hatred and educating
young women and believes women are a key to transforming and healing the Middle
East.
He
currently lives in Toronto where he is a full professor at the Dalla Lana
School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.
Prof. Abuelaish has overcome many personal hardships,
including poverty, violence, and the horrific tragedy of his three daughters’
and niece’s deaths in the 2009 Gaza War. He continues to live up to the
description bestowed upon him by an Israeli colleague, as a “magical, secret
bridge between Israelis and Palestinians” and in the world. He is now one of
the most outspoken, prominent, and beloved researchers, educators and public
speakers on peace and development in the Middle East.
The Office of Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation of the
Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word of San Antonio, Texas, is bringing Dr
Abuelaish to San Antonio because they carry forward their tradition as healers.
The Incarnate Word Sisters founded the first public hospital in San Antonio,
Santa Rosa, in 1869, in response to a plea from the mayor to stop rampant
contagious disease that killed 10% of the city’s population.
Dr. Abuelaish with Teo Reyes, Assistant Director of the UIW Center for Civic Leadership and Sustainability named for Sister Dot Ettling.
As President Jimmy Carter put it, “In this book, Dr. Abuelaish has expressed a remarkable commitment to forgiveness and reconciliation that describes the foundation for a permanent peace in the Holy Land.”
Dr. Abuelaish with Jacky Zavala Aguila of the UIW Office of Research and Graduate Studies.
In San Antonio we are building with the Charter for Compassion, Peace on Earth by 2030, and CompassionateUSA. Dr. Abuilaish's wisdom and research further these efforts. We would like to have a Camino of Compassion and Peace growing between San Antonio, Texas, and Monterrey, Mexico.
If you wish to donate as we try to develop a San Antonio scholarship for the Daughters for Life Foundation:
Checks to the University of the Incarnate Word and mail to Sister Martha Ann Kirk, UIW, 4301 Broadway, San Antonio, TX 78209.
If you wish to pay by credit card, then please go to https://www.uiw.edu/give/ See the box “Other—please apply my gift to” there type in Liturgical Outreach. Thank you.
If you have questions, kirk@uiwtx.edu 210-883-5934.
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