Join Qahwa Cafe and Adams Wellness as we host a powerful and necessary event with mental health professionals and a religious leader to understand and examine the psychological impact of occupation and trauma on Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim Communities.

We will hear stories and explore the direct impact of occupation and trauma on the Palestinian people. We will also explore the psychological impacts of witnessing the genocide indirectly on our phones and screens as the millions of us do daily. Following the speaker presentations, attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions.

The event will take place in Qahwa Cafe but will be moved to the Community Hall should registrant exceed 100. Tickets are free, but we strongly recommend attendees register to inform us of spacing requirements. If you want to see more events like this, please donations to support such future events!

Speakers:

DR. MONA EZZAT-ABUHAMDA

She served as clinical faculty at the George Washington University, school of professional psychology and held an adjunct faculty position at The Johns Hopkins University, school of business and education. Dr. Abuhamda is a graduate of the Modern Perspectives on Psychotherapy Program and The New Directions Program of the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis and has completed a fellowship in psychoanalysis at the Baltimore Washington Psychoanalytic.

Dr. AbuHamda is currently serving on the board of The Virginia Academy of Clinical Psychologist and is the Chair of their Diversity Committee. She consults with different governmental and non-governmental organizations on issues of diversity and cross-cultural psychology.

In addition to her private practice in Mclean, VA., Dr. AbuHamda is an independent consultant providing clinical services at Washington Behavioral Health, a day-treatment outpatient hospital for adolescents and adults who struggle with addiction disorders

DR. RICHARD A. CHEFETZ, M.D

Dr. Chefetz is a psychiatrist in private practice in Washington, D.C. He was President of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (2002-3), and is a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology.

He is a faculty member at the Washington School of Psychiatry, the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis, and the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. . He is a Certified Consultant at the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and is trained in Level I and II EMDR.

IMAM KEBBA SALLAH

Imam Kebba Sallah was born and raised in the Washington D.C. area and has completed memorization of the Holy Quran and has ijaazah in Qiraat Hafs An Assim. He has been a student of knowledge for many years having studied Islamic sciences such as Maliki Fiqh, Aqeedah, Tafseer, Tazkiyah, and Tajweed with local and international teachers. He is a student of Imam Mohamed Magid, Sheikh Abd Ar-Rafa, and other U.S. based scholars.

He has studied classical Arabic language at Qasid Institute in Amman, Jordan for a brief period and then returned to serve the community while pursuing advanced Arabic mastery with local scholars. He studied briefly at the Boston Islamic Seminary before transitioning to his current pursuit of traditional Ijaazaat in the Islamic sciences.

He has led taraweeh, daily prayers, Khutbas, and Halaqaat for over 10 years at ADAMS and other institutions in the Northern Virginia area.

Moderated by SUHEIR KAFRI

Suheir Kafri is the Social Worker at the ADAMS Center in Sterling, VA and holds a QMHP-A certification in Mental Health from the Virginia Board of Counseling as a Qualified Mental Health Professional. Suheir serves as a board member of the Loudoun County Family Services Advisory Board and is in her second four-year term.

Suheir has also formed partnerships between ADAMS and county organizations to provide informed seminars and workshops within the mosque setting to better inform the community on how to seek services that will enable them to be enriched through all the resources available to them, through both Loudoun and Fairfax Counties.

Palestine: The Psychology of Occupation

The Impact of Occupation and Trauma on Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim Communities