From Martyrdom to Hope
Insisting On Life
Nasser Abufarha, PhD
Founder of Palestine Fair Trade Association and Canaan Fair Trade
Presented by
Canaan Fair Trade & Interfaith Peace Builders

 Oberlin College
 West Hall
 12:00 PM
 September 17, 2010

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Interfaith Peace Builders leads delegations to Israel/Palestine where theymeet peace makers on both sides of the conflict. The delegation is a transformative experience for most participants, who later become forces for change in their own communities. IFPB supports returning delegates through ongoing communication and training in community organization and advocacy. Mike Daly, Program Coordinator and delegation leader, will be available to answer questions about the IFPB experience. Nasser Abufarha, PhD, will explain how his research on suicide bombers led to the founding of The Palestine Fair Trade Association, which has grown into 49 producer cooperatives with over 1700 small farmers. Its corporate partner, Canaan Fair Trade, has a state of the art olive oil refinery and world wide distribution of organic, certified fair trade products. Profits fund college scholarships, micro-loans for women, replanting of thousands of uprooted olive trees, and jobs that provide hope for the embattled West Bank city of Jenin. Dr. Abufarha received his PhD in anthropology from the University of Wisconsin. His PhD dissertation ,"The Making of a Human Bomb: An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance" was published by Duke University Press in August 2009.

Dr. Abufarha’s book, The Making of a Human Bomb: An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance,, will be on sale for $25.

Canaan Fair Trade olive oil and soap will also be available for purchase with cash or check.

For further information, contact: Mary Ann Kerr, 216-371-1855,

maryanndkerr@aol.com or

Ruth Tracy, 216-408-6297, rtracy@ameritech.net