A series of public events to share the story of Anar, offering a vision of healing for Palestinian children and their caregivers beyond the stories we often hear in the news.
with
Rami Khader
Founder & Executive Director
of Anar for Empowerment
& Psychosocial Support
Healing Beyond the Headlines: Building a Movement of Hope for Palestinian Children
U.S. Tour for Anar Executive Director Rami Khader Hosted by Healing to Hope
Public Events
September 20–October 3 in the Minnesota, MN (9/20–9/23); the California (9/24–9/30); and Chicago, IL (10/1–10/3), Healing to Hope welcomes Anar Executive Director and Founder Rami Khader back to the U.S. for his second speaking tour. As a humanitarian, artist, and activist, Rami will share stories from the ground in Palestine, offering a vision of healing for Palestinian children and their caregivers beyond the stories we often hear in the news. Founded in 2023, Anar operates in the West Bank and Gaza. It aims to break the cycle of intergenerational trauma and provide healing for Palestinian children and caregivers experiencing ongoing Israeli occupation, violence, and genocide. Anar's innovative approach includes community-based psychosocial support, youth mentorship, and arts-based healing workshops.
Rami will be joined by Sarah Myers, the executive director of Healing to Hope, Anar’s U.S.-based sister-organization. Healing to Hope raises support and awareness for Anar’s important work in Palestine.
This tour will provide many meaningful, in-depth opportunities for those in the U.S. to learn more about Anar and Healing to Hope. These organizations welcome everyone to support their commitment to justice, hope, and healing for Palestinian children, caregivers, and communities. It is critical to make visible the realities on the ground in Palestine. When so many in the U.S. feel helpless to change those realities, Healing to Hope and Anar offer ways to join the courageous, lifegiving work that happens there every day.
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Sunday, September 20, 1:00pm
Arts Event - Hands-on Workshop
Legacy Dream Space (in the California Building)
2205 California Street NE
Minneapolis, MN 55418Sunday, September 20, 2:00pm
Legacy Dream Space (in the California Building)
2205 California Street NE
Minneapolis, MN 55418Monday, September 21, 7:00pm
St. John’s Lutheran Church
500 Third St W
Northfield, MN 55057Tuesday, September 22, 7:00pm
New City Center
3104 16th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55407 -
Thursday, September 24, 4:00pm
Mount Diablo Peace and Justice Center
Stanley Dollar House
1015 Stanley Dollar Drive
Walnut Creek, CA 94595Friday, September 25, 7:00pm
Lakeshore Avenue Baptist Church
3534 Lakeshore Avenue
Oakland, CA 94610Sunday, September 27, 7:00pm
Faith Lutheran Church
667 E 1st Avenue, Suite 7
Chico, CA 95926 -
Thursday, October 1, 7pm
St. Luke’s Lutheran Church
205 N Prospect Ave
Park Ridge, IL 60068Friday, October 2, 8:00pm
Gallery Cabaret
2020 N Oakley Ave
Chicago, IL 60647Saturday, October 3, 6:30pm
Living Water Community Church
6808 N Ashland Ave
Chicago, IL 60626
Support Our Work
All tour events are free to the general public. We welcome your much-needed donations to sustain, support, and raise awareness about Anar’s crucial community-based psychosocial support programs and arts-based healing work with Palestinian children and caregivers facing violence and oppression in the West Bank.
Background
Our aim is that this tour will provide many meaningful, in-depth opportunities for those in the U.S. to learn more about Anar and Healing to Hope and support our commitment to justice, hope, and healing for Palestinian children, caregivers, and communities.
Anar for Empowerment & Psychosocial Support is a nonprofit based in Bethlehem and operating in the West Bank that aims to break the cycle of intergenerational trauma and provide healing for Palestinian children and caregivers experiencing ongoing occupation, settler violence, child arrests and detention, mass displacement, and ethnic cleansing. Anar's innovative approaches include community-based psychosocial support hubs, a youth mentorship program, and arts-based healing workshops with children. Given the grave need for psychosocial support for displaced Palestinian families, Anar has recently expanded to serve more and more communities throughout the West Bank, with a new office in Hebron in the south and additional staff in Nablus and Tulkarem in the north.
Anar was founded in the summer of 2023 by Executive Director Rami Khader, a Palestinian humanitarian, artist, and social worker from Bethlehem with expertise in humanitarian response, psychosocial support, arts-based healing, MHPSS capacity-building, and grassroots community empowerment. Prior to founding Anar, Rami served as a lecturer at Bethlehem University, where he taught psychology and social work; as founder and director of Diyar Theatre; and as the Director of East Jerusalem YMCA's Rehabilitation Program, where he led a team of 70 staff members, trainers, counselors, and coordinators in delivering lifesaving psychosocial support. At Anar, Rami is joined by a gifted and experienced staff of counselors who work with children, caregivers, and communities throughout the West Bank to provide healing for those who need it most.
To raise awareness about and support Anar’s work, Healing to Hope, a U.S.-based, volunteer-driven charitable organization, was founded in the summer of 2024. Rami himself serves on the Healing to Hope board of directors, alongside a committed group of volunteers with backgrounds in education, nursing, social work, pastoral leadership, and the arts. Healing to Hope has also just launched its Local Impact Leader initiative designed to support organizers and activists dedicated to raising awareness about Anar in their own communities.
Questions about the tour can be directed to info@healingtohope.org.
RSVP is not required to attend public tour events for “Breaking the Cycle: Justice and Healing for Palestinian Children and Caregivers.” No one will be turned away. However, filling out the RSVP form ensures that you can be updated on any event changes and tour information from Healing to Hope.