The diagnosis: colonialism. The prognosis: full recovery. The treatment: resistance. And the formula for successful recovery: diversity.
Among Mazin Qumsiyeh's impressive qualifications are his MD degree and genetics professorship at Yale School of Medicine. Thus the basic outline summarized above. In this riveting presentation recently at the Community Church of Boston, he explains why we must recognize, celebrate, and cultivate diversity in all matters. This applies to the environment and to human community building. It also means one democratic state for Palestine/"Israel", ending apartheid forever.
For some background on Qumsiyeh and his primary love, we quote from thisweekinpalestine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/The-Palestine-Museum-of-Natural-History.pdf: "As a child, Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, the founder of the Palestine Museum of Natural History (PMNH) at Bethlehem University, used to accompany his uncle Sana to the field and thus fell in love with nature. Qumsiyeh was 13 years old when his uncle died, and that is when he resolved to fulfill not only his uncleâs mission of doing research on mammals but also his dream of building a museum. Qumsiyeh, who has taught at Duke and Yale universities, now teaches at Bethlehem and Birzeit universities. He has published more than 140 scientific papers on topics ranging from systematics to biodiversity to cancer. He has also published several books, including Bats of Egypt, Mammals of the Holy Land, Sharing the Land of Canaan, and Popular Resistance in Palestine.â
For those interested, we have included separately a raw unedited recording of the 35-minute Q&A session. Finally, go to youtube.com/watch?v=4xTTHYOvwgU to see an informal video of this event, including some of his slides. Qumsiyeh is a passionate, tireless, and also fun presenter!
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This Week In Palestine 6-24-2018
Mazin Qumsiyeh, MD, reports the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, ...and formula for successful recovery of our patient, Palestine/"Israel"
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