Today we hear we hear an exclusive presentation by Palestinian Expressive Therapist, Khitam Edelbi. Khitam is completing her PhD through Lesley University, while actively conducting an expressive therapy program she created in the West Bank of Palestine. While in Cambridge this summer doing her academic course work, Khitam spoke at a fund raiser, describing her program, and we were there to record it. It begins with an introduction by Susan Jacoby.
As Khitam explains, her expressive therapy program is directed at the children in Palestine who are victimized on a daily basis by sadistic Israeli soldiers, checkpoints, house demolitions, and other forms of Israel's wall-to-wall racism, brutality, and dehumanization. Of course Khitam's expressive therapy program doesn't stop any of that. What it does do is give those children a sense of dignity, self-worth, and resilience. Indirectly, it could lead to an uprising strong enough to make Israelis accountable for their outrageous criminal behavior.
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This Week In Palestine 7-8-2018
Khitam Edelbi, Palestinian Expressive Therapist, describes her work in the West Bank