GAZA: Ravaged Yet Resilient- A Story of a Medical Mission

Doors open at 11:30am 

You are cordially invited to attend this event! Registration is required for in-person capacity (200). 

Dr. Sameer Khan and Dr. Ahlia Kattan’s humanitarian efforts in Gaza since their return include water supply (water tanks and water wells) and K-4 school for orphans.

Please make your tax-deductible donations to the Bukrah Foundation https://www.bukrahfoundation.org

This event will be held in person and broadcast live on Facebook. 

GAZA: Ravaged Yet Resilient

Dr. Sameer Khan and Dr. Ahlia Kattan will share how they went to help and returned profoundly moved. 

• Conditions in Gaza

• Humanitarian Efforts

• Personal Impact

• Stories of Resilience

Contributions and Impact

• Medical Assistance

• Capacity Building

• Advocacy and Awareness

• Emotional Support

Agenda

12pm        Meet & Greet & Music

12:20pm   Introduction – Sharon Sigal                                         

12:30pm.  Presentation – Dr Sameer Khan   & Dr. Ahlia Kattan 

1:00 pm     Q&A

1:30pm     Snacks & Music

2:00pm.    Interactive discussion 

2:40pm.    Wrap up & Thank You – Dr. Meher Khan & Sharon Sigal

2:45pm.     Music

For more information about the event contact:

Sharon Sigal at VoicesFromTheHeart@aol.com  

Dr.Meher Khan at allergymom@gmail.com

Gaza Survey

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Live Music by Raji Malik and Roger Mgrdichian

Raji Malik

Raji Malik has performed and recorded hard rock and instrumental Indian-influenced music in the Philadelphia area for the past 30 years.  He is self-taught and started playing guitar when he was 19.  Raji’s initial musical influences were the great rock guitarists Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), Jimi Hendrix, and David Gilmour (Pink Floyd).  Then he discovered Shakti, featuring 3 masterful Indian musicians and guitar legend John Mclaughlin playing a modified sitar-like acoustic guitar.  Raji promptly put away his electric guitar and immersed himself in the pure tones of the acoustic guitar.  Raji finds deep inspiration from many brilliant “Modern Fingerstyle” guitarists who are all disciples of the late Michael Hedges, who reinvented the acoustic guitar with his harmonic percussive playing.  Raji hopes that his music brings peace, healing, and inspiration.

May this music bring you an appreciation of your goodness and a deeper sense of interconnection.  May we all continue to challenge ourselves to grow with honest self-reflection so that we may more clearly channel love.  That is why we are here.

https://www.rajimalik.com/

Roger Mgrdichian

Roger is a multi-instrumentalist and composer from Philadelphia PA, currently residing in Collingswood NJ. He is self-taught on the oud and is versed in the traditional music of his Anatolian
Armenian ancestors. His diverse musical background includes classical and folk music of the middle east, belly dance accompaniment, flamenco, Sephardic, Indian and jazz, in addition to middle east rock fusion. Roger is an original member of Jaffna, a middle east and Indian fusion ensemble still active over 25 years. He also has a long history with Atzilut Concerts for Peace, a 10-member Arab/Jewish peace orchestra playing concerts around the world, and is a founding member of Barakka, an innovative Turkish folk-rock band that has performed regularly in the US and Turkey over the last decade.
Roger has collaborated with vocalists Nicoletta Demetriou, Farah Siraj, Karinee Andonian and Michele Tayoun, and is active in various groups as Armenian Social Club, Radio Beyrouth, The Mid East Ensemble and Sababa.

Roger’s Facebook

Gaza entry at Rafah razed by bulldozer

American Medical Missions Trapped in Gaza, Facing Death by Dehydration as Population Clings to Life

Link to The Intercept Article

American medics trapped in Gaza call on US government to help bring them home

Link to the CNN story

‘Nothing justifies what we have witnessed here’: the doctors returning home from Gaza

Link to Guardian Article

*Note: In-person seating is limited. After the first 200 signups, you may watch on FB live.

If you purchased a ticket, we have you on our guest list, please tell us your name when you come in for the show.

By Car or By Train

The East Falls Train Station is a short walk from the Fallser Club. Parking in East Falls is no problem! There is ample free on-street parking near the East Falls train station driveway at 3610 Midvale Ave and a paid municipal lot three blocks away at 4100 Ridge Ave.  Midvale Ave and Ridge Ave are both well-lit!