Fight Hate Presents

Voices Against Hamas & Hezbollah

From Inside the Arab World

From Gaza to Syria to Lebanon, hear how grassroots voices and media leaders are working to shift public discourse in the Middle East. Learn how education, communication, and advocacy are building public support for reconciliation across lines of faith, ideology, and identity—and why that shift is essential for long-term peace.

Speakers include:

Ahed Alhendi is a senior fellow at the Center for Peace Communications and a former political prisoner in his native Syria, detained in 2007 for pro-democracy activism. As a social entrepreneur, Ahed organized Syrian artists to bring hope and color back to public spaces in areas liberated from ISIS. He also developed a program that equipped artists with 3D modeling skills to create prosthetics for civilians wounded in the war. A committed voice for Arab reform and development, he is a regular guest on pan-Arab satellite channels and contributes widely to regional and international media.

Joseph Braude, President of the Center for Peace Communications, is an expert on the nexus of culture and politics in Arab societies and an active presence in the region’s media and policy debates. A graduate of Near Eastern Studies at Yale and Princeton, he developed his Arabic to broadcast quality over a seven-year stint on Moroccan national radio and added Persian to his Arabic and Hebrew as a graduate student at the University of Tehran. He is the author of five books, including Broadcasting Change: Arabic Media as a Catalyst for Liberalism and Reclamation: A Cultural Policy for Arab-Israeli Partnership.

Middle Eastern food will be served

April 3, 2025 – 6 to 8 PM

Penn Hillel

Voices Against Hamas & Hezbollah

From Inside the Arab World

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