Hillel of Silicon Valley has moved all programming online
and we have an unique opportunity to invite you, our community,
to join the students of Hillel of Silicon Valley's weekly Israel Learning Fellowship!
Please join Hillel of Silicon Valley for
Hussein Aboubakr
Minority of One: A Personal Story of Life in Egypt,
Anti-Semitism, and Transformation
Thursday, April 2nd at 4:00 p.m.
An online presentation via Zoom
Hussein Aboubakr was born in 1989 to an Arab Muslim family in Cairo, Egypt. Hussein studied Jewish and Middle Eastern history and Hebrew literature at the Faculty of Arts and Oriental Studies Department at Cairo University. Persecuted by state police for his research at the Israeli Academic Center of Cairo, Hussein participated in the Egyptian revolution until he was forced to depart Egypt as a political refugee. He now lives in the United States. He is a member of JIMENA: Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa an organization based in San Francisco.
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To receive the Zoom meeting's link, please RSVP to Karen Baskind at KarenB@hillelsv.org by 12:00 Noon on Thursday April 2nd.
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