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March 26, 2022

3 p.m. Eastern

Forty-six years ago, Israeli police shot and killed six Palestinian citizens of Israel as they were protesting the Israeli government’s expropriation of thousands of dunums of Palestinian land. Since then, March 30 has been known as Land Day. It has become a major commemorative date for Palestinians and an important event in the Palestinian collective narrative – one that emphasizes Palestinian sumud (steadfastness) and resistance to Israeli colonization.

The Museum of the Palestinian People is pleased to invite you to the 46th commemoration of the Land Day. The event will explore the relation of Palestinians and Black Americans to the land. We are excited to hear from three incredible speakers.

Mohammed Abu Jayyab is a Palestinian fallah, farmer, and food sovereignty activist. A co-founder of Om Sleiman Farm in Bil’in in the West Bank, and one of the collaborators behind Al Barakeh Wheat in Jordan. His upbringing in a refugee camp in Gaza Strip has made issues of belonging and social justice a central theme in his work. He is a co-developer of a farm-based political and educational framework.

Yara Dowani is a farmer, activist, and a researcher from Jerusalem. Yara’s interest in farming started in 2017 after joining a permaculture design course. After the course, she traveled to Spain to visit sustainable projects and permaculture farms. Coming back to Palestine, she joined a research group studying perennial plants and edible wild plants in Palestine. Since 2018, she has been farming and managing the Om Sleiman farm and is part of many initiatives and movements working on agroecology and food sovereignty. Now, Yara’s interest lies mostly in research and the educational part of farming and community-building.

Dr. Imani M. Cheers is an award-winning digital storyteller, director, producer and filmmaker. As a professor of practice, Dr. Cheers uses a variety of mediums including video, photography, television and film to document and discuss issues impacting and involving people of the African Diaspora. Imani is working on a film called “Agricultural Apartheid” which is about three women from South Africa, Zambia, and Palestine, and their struggle to sustain their lands.

This conversation will be moderated by Ahmed Mansour, MPP’s Director of Programs, and Rula Dughman, the curator of MPP’s Freedom is One exhibition, which this event celebrates.

To register for the event, please visit our Eventbrite page

About the Freedom is One exhibition:

The Museum of Palestinian People is pleased to present the exhibition Freedom is One: Palestinian-Black Kinship Then, Now and Tomorrow. Freedom is One explores how artists represent the relationship of solidarity between Palestinian and Black people and their anti-colonial and anti-imperialism struggle since the 1960s. The exhibition brings together a spectrum of artworks that explore themes of politics and resistance through various forms, symbols, and media.

One of the museum’s core values is to collaborate to co-author a new story. We are proud to partner with our Black brothers and sisters to create this groundbreaking exhibition to highlight our shared struggle and belonging for freedom. We hope by launching this exhibition we are creating a new story for America. A new story where our freedom is one. We are all connected whether in the United States or Palestine in our shared desire for dignity, freedom and liberation.