Memoirs of a refugee from Gaza
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Keep Hope Alive is based on the memoirs of Dr. Khaled Diab, a 1948 refugee from the Upper Galilee who made his way to America and into a career in the Defense industry with top-secret clearance during the Cold War. The book opens with a fictionalized and imaginative discussion of a group of friends around Khaled's olive-wood kitchen table in Buffalo, N.Y., the morning after Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination. Topics of conversation include religion, politics, the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the treasures of the Nag Hammadi library and the stages of the soul. These topics are intricately woven into a provocative, inclusive and cohesive story.
The events of Sept. 11, 2001 compel 78 year old newlywed, Dr. Khaled Diab to take positive action. With the help of many friends, he founds the nonprofit, nonpolitical Olive Trees Foundation for Peace/OTFFP (www.olivetreesfoundation.org).
Keep Hope Alive documents the history of this organization of American Jews, Christians and Muslims who came together after 9/11 to raise awareness and funds to begin to replant the olive trees the separation wall has destroyed. To date, 30,000 trees have been rooted in Israel and Palestine thanks to generous American donors.
100% of all royalties for Keep Hope Alive will be donated by the author to the 501(c)(3) OTFFP which has connected this year with the Joint Advocacy Initiative's YWCA in Palestine and YMCA in Jerusalem's Keep Hope Alive Olive Tree Campaign site.
This planting season both organizations are focused on Gaza with the hope to implement a mini-Marshall Plan. The OTFFP and JAI collaboration goal is to raise the funds for 50,000 fruit bearing trees to blanket Gaza this Hanukkah, Christmas, Eid season. Only twenty-five olive trees can sustain the average sized Palestinian family, who have always been farmers. Imagine giving the residents of Gaza something to do on TOP of the land and the opportunity to feed their families.
In solidarity "we have it in our power to begin the world again." -Tom Paine.
Every $25.00 Tax Deductible donation will provide the funds for one olive tree and the donor will receive a signed copy of KEEP HOPE ALIVE
Checks can be made out to OTFFP or
Olive Trees Foundation for Peace
Mail to:
We Are Wide Awake
Post Office Box 120321
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