Zaru, Jean, 1940- (interviewee)
Interview with Jean Mikhail Zaru, peace activist, Quaker, and member of the Ramallah Friends Meeting by Max Carter, of the Friends United Meeting, Living Letters, Service Learning Group, on June 29, 2019 at the Ramallah Friends Meeting House. Discusses founding of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem and work with the World Conference on Religion and the National and the Middle East Council of Churches; growing up in an interfaith community of mostly Christian but also Muslim and Jewish faith traditions; drawing on her interfaith experience to advocate for non-violence in her homeland as it was challenged with wars and military occupation; the activism of her parents, siblings, husband, and children in Palestine, the United States, and other countries; her mother's hospitality towards refugees as activism; her brother's and children's pursuit of education, purpose, and activism in the United States; Sulha, a common-law system of conflict resolution and reconciliation; the importance of education and volunteerism in peacemaking; teaching Palestinian girls to contribute to nonviolent change in ecological and economic ways; being sought out by international activists of different faiths who seek advice following attention brought by her book, “Occupied with Nonviolence: a Palestinian Woman Speaks ". NOTE: there is a jump cut at approx 33:10 when the recording was paused.