peacebuilding

Shadia Qubti shares her experience and perspective as a Palestinian woman and theologian grappling with lament and hope around the time of the ceasefire between Palestine and Israel. “Today, as I navigate this uncertain and fragile ceasefire, I’m learning to practice joy as an act of faith and resistance. I choose to see what remains standing: 30% of Gaza’s structures still rise from the earth – each building a testament to resilience, each remaining hospital a monument to healthcare workers who refused to abandon their posts. Among the rubble, I find signs of life refusing to be erased: families returning to tend what’s left of their homes, medical staff continuing to heal in makeshift clinics, children finding spaces to play between the broken walls…”

Shadia Qubti shares her experience and perspective as a Palestinian woman and theologian living abroad during the war:
“Like travelers caught between time zones, I’m simultaneously living in Pacific time and Gaza time, my body and mind never quite synchronized. I wake up to morning here while following night raids there, eat lunch while tracking dawn evacuations, try to sleep while monitoring real-time bombardments. This isn’t just about different time zones – it’s about living in multiple states of being: attempting normalcy in one reality while carrying intergenerational trauma triggered anew in another…”