Support Najib Joe Hakim's Speaking Tour to the UK
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My name is Najib Joe Hakim, a Palestinian-American photographer and activist. I have been invited to visit Scotland by the Scottish photo collective, the Network of Photographers for Palestine (NPP) in September of this 75th year of the Nakba. NPP will host me during my visit. Your support will help me get there.
Some of you may know me for the Home Away from Home: Little Palestine by the Bay [HOME] multimedia project I produced. [See links below.] This project provided a platform for San Francisco Bay Area Palestinians to share their stories in their own voices with an American audience through recorded audio and photography. The participants relate many of their personal stories as immigrants, refugees, or their experiences visiting their homeland for the first time. They also describe how and why they maintain ties to and aspirations for Palestine; and how they reconcile this with life in a country whose political culture is so profoundly hostile to those aspirations.
I’m happy to say HOME has inspired similar projects by local activists throughout Europe, including the book “Home Away from Home” – my collaboration with Scottish and German photographers. Clearly, people desire a narrative different from the dominant Israeli/US/European one, which has only led to decades of war, hostilities and suffering on all sides.
NPP is a group of activists dedicated to spreading the story of Palestine through the medium of photography, as well as providing support for photographers working in their homeland. They periodically invite guest photographers from Palestine and elsewhere to tour Scotland showing their work. Previous visitors include Hamde Abu Rahme from Bil’in and Sabrine Mukarker-Zeidan from Bethlehem.
NPP is a charity regulated by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator. Its work is funded by grants, and fundraising such as this. I have been honored this year by their invitation to tour Scotland to show my work and discuss the experience of displacement with the people of Scotland.
Both NPP and I would like to convey our sincerest thanks for helping us fund this visit.
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