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Rhode Island Council for Muslim Advancement
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ANNA BALTZER
![]() Baltzer will also be selling and signing copies of her book: Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories.
Anna Baltzer is a Jewish-American Columbia graduate, former-Fulbright scholar, the granddaughter of Holocaust refugees, and an award-winning lecturer, author, and activist for Palestinian rights. Baltzer has appeared on television more than 100 times and lectured at more than 300 universities, schools, churches, mosques, and synagogues around the world with her acclaimed presentation, "Life in Occupied Palestine: Eyewitness Stories & Photos," and her full-color book: Witness in Palestine. She is a contributor to three soon-to-be-released books on the subject and serves on the Board of Directors of the Research Journalism Institute, Grassroots Jerusalem, and Council for the National Interest.
Baltzer’s presentation covers checkpoints, settlements, Israeli
activism, the 1948 war & refugees, censorship, the Separation Wall, nonviolent
demonstrations, and more. For information about Baltzer's book, DVD, and tour
schedule, please visit: www.AnnaInTheMiddleEast.com. Baltzer sheds light on the important political, historical, and emotional complexities of the challenges facing Israel and Palestine. --Jim Doyle, Governor of Wisconsin Even those who are familiar with the grim reality of the occupied territories will quickly be drawn into a world they had barely imagined by these vivid, searingly honest, intensely acute portrayals. --Noam Chomsky, Author, Professor, and Middle East Specialist
www.annainthemiddleeast.com/
Anna Balter Who: Anna Baltzer, Jewish American Columbia graduate, former-Fulbright scholar, granddaughter of Holocaust refugees, author of Witness in Palestine, and award-winning lecturer on the Middle East conflict.
What: First-hand stories & photographs of the Occupation and the joint Palestinian and Israeli nonviolence movement, followed by book-signing. Why: To share information difficult to obtain through US mainstream media Where: Brown University , Wilson 102 When: October 20, 2009 7:00 P.M.
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